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FAQ: Dr. Craig R. Mahoney's Recognition as a 2026 Castle Connolly Top Doctor
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Dr. Craig R. Mahoney's 13th Top Doctor award signals his elite status, offering patients a competitive advantage through his high success rate and advanced surgical techniques.
Dr. Mahoney's selection involves peer nomination and Castle Connolly's review of medical education, training, and outcomes, with his method focusing on nonsurgical options first.
Dr. Mahoney's work improves patients' quality of life by reducing pain and enhancing mobility through evidence-based care, making tomorrow better for many individuals.
Dr. Mahoney has performed over 8,000 hip and knee replacements and authored 40 publications, showcasing a remarkable career in orthopaedic surgery.
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Orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Craig R. Mahoney has been named a 2026 Castle Connolly Top Doctor, which is the 13th year he has received this esteemed designation.
Only 7 percent of the nation's licensed physicians are selected each year as Castle Connolly Top Doctors for their specialties in their regions, making it a prestigious recognition of medical excellence.
Dr. Mahoney is an orthopaedic surgeon with Iowa Ortho, serves as Physician Leader and Vice President of the Orthopaedic Service Line at MercyOne, and is a partner at the Iowa Orthopaedic Center.
His philosophy focuses on exhaustive nonsurgical options before recommending joint replacement surgery, with goals of improving mobility, decreasing pain, and enhancing quality of life through evidence-based techniques that emphasize long-term outcomes.
He performs several advanced surgical techniques including Total Hip Arthroplasty, Total Knee Arthroplasty, Hip and Knee Revision Surgery, Computer-navigated Joint Replacement, Impaction Grafting, and Vascular Management in Rotationplasty.
He earned his medical degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1995, completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at Creighton/University of Nebraska Health Foundation in 2001 (including a research fellowship), and completed a fellowship in Adult Reconstruction at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York in 2002.
He has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, served as President of the Mid-America Orthopaedic Association and Iowa Orthopaedic Society, and served on the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Board of Councilors for six years.
Top Doctors are nominated by peer physicians and selected by the physician-led Castle Connolly research team based on criteria including medical education, training, hospital appointments, and disciplinary histories. Doctors cannot pay to be selected.
More information about Dr. Mahoney is available at https://www.castleconnolly.com/top-doctors/craig-r-mahoney-orthopaedic-surgery-128cc259194 and about Castle Connolly at https://www.castleconnolly.com/about-us/the-official-source-of-top-doctors.
He has over 23 years of dedicated practice and has performed more than 8,000 successful hip and knee replacements.
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