May 24, 2021

When Richard Lawton, M.D., Ph.D. was a young boy, he liked fixing things, building bikes, and spending time in the woodshop. Those types of interests lend themselves toward surgery, he says, and pointed him, in his adulthood, to a career in orthopedic surgery. It helped that his father, who recently retired, was a family practice doc, “so I got some initial exposure through…