Lorena Bejarano-Pineda

Dr. Bejarano-Pineda was born in Bogota, Colombia.. She started swimming at the age of three years old and competed up until she started medical school. Lorena spent her last year of high school in Sarnia, Ontario. During this time she improved her English and discovered her interest in various sports including basketball and soccer. She attended medical school at University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia. Following medical school, Lorena moved to Chicago and completed a research fellowship in transplant surgery at University of Illinois at Chicago. After this experience she returned to Colombia to complete residency in orthopaedic surgery at the Pontifical Bolivarian University. Her research interest during residency included posterolateral instability of the knee, glenohumeral instability and rotator cuff tears of the hip. After graduating from residency, Lorena moved to Durham, NC and completed a research fellowship in foot and ankle surgery at Duke University. She worked in clinical outcomes after total ankle arthroplasty, midfoot arthritis, and innovated techniques including total talus replacement.

During this year as a sports medicine fellow at Duke University, Lorena has enjoyed providing physician coverage for the women’s soccer and field hockey teams. She was selected as a scholar for the Feagin Leadership program. This has given her the opportunity to build her skills in assertive communication and work as a leader in projects directed to the improvement of patient care. Her interest in research has been focused in the risk of injury in lower extremity dominant sports and the role of pre-season imaging in athletes.