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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 1999

Norman Yoshinobu Otsuka, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada - Orthopedic Surgery
  • Royal Col of Phys and Surgeons of Canada
  • American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery - Orthopaedic Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Am Acad of Ped(Surg Sec)
  • Amer Acad of Ortho Surg
  • Ped Ortho Soc of North America
  • Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
  • Amer Ortho Assn

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Academic medical center

Orthopaedic Surgery

701 N 1st St

PO Box 19638

Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, SIU School of Medicine

Springfield, IL 62781

United States

Contact Information

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Bone Infection

  • joint infections
  • osteomyelitis

Foot, Ankle, Disorders/Procedures

  • athletic knee problems
  • bunion surgery
  • claw toe
  • club foot
  • foot and ankle fracture
  • lower extremity deformities
  • planter fasciitis

General Orthopaedics

  • amputation
  • amputee rehabilitation
  • broken collarbone
  • cartilage problems
  • compression fracture
  • fractures
  • fractures complex
  • ligament injuries
  • muscle strains
  • skeletal dysplasia
  • skeletal dysplasia
  • spasticity
  • tears and instability
  • wrist surgery

Hand Wrist Disorders/Procedures

  • arthritis
  • carpel tunnel syndrome
  • cubital tunnel syndrome
  • deQuervain's tendonitis
  • elbow fracture
  • elbow problems
  • Erb's palsy
  • fractures
  • ganglion cysts
  • Kienbock's disease
  • neuropathies - upper extremity
  • shoulder problems
  • tennis elbow
  • ulnar tunnel syndrome
  • ulner nerve entrapment

Knee Leg Disorders/Procedures

  • bowed legs
  • knee cap injury
  • knee pain
  • knee surgery
  • leg fractures
  • limb-length discrepancy
  • meniscal tear
  • runners knee

Bone, Muscle Cancer/Tumors

  • enchomdroma
  • fibrous dysplasia
  • osteochondroma
  • unicameral bone cyst

Arthritis

  • arthritis
  • osteoarthritis
  • rheumatoid arthritis

Diagnostic Imaging/proced

  • bone density testing
  • bone marrow aspiration/biopsy
  • MRI
  • musculoskeletal imaging
  • osteochonal grafting

Orthopedics Hand

Minimally Invasive Procedures

Orthopedics other

Pediatric Orthopaedics

  • bowed legs
  • club foot
  • congenital dislocated hip
  • congenital torticollis
  • fractures
  • juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
  • limb deformities
  • limb lengthening
  • lower extremity deformities
  • muscular dystrophy
  • myelomeningocele
  • pediatric spasticity
  • slipped capital femoral epiphysis
  • spina bifida

Shoulder & Arm Disease/Injury

  • arm fracture
  • brachial plexus injury
  • bursitis
  • carpel tunnel syndrome
  • cubital tunnel syndrome
  • deQuervain's tendonitis
  • elbow fracture
  • elbow problems
  • Erb's palsy
  • neuropathies - upper extremity
  • shoulder problems
  • shoulder separation
  • shoulder surgery
  • tennis elbow
  • ulnar nerve entrapment

Spine and Neck Disorders/Procedures

Sports Medicine

  • athletic knee problems
  • hip pain
  • ligament injuries
  • overuse injuries
  • runner's knee
  • throwing injuries

Joint Replacement - Hip and Knee

Orthopedic Trauma

  • amputation
  • extremity reconstruction
  • foot and ankle reconstruction
  • limb restoration
  • reconstructive surgery

Hospital Appointments

Memorial Medical Center

Springfield, IL

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

04/2019—Present

HSHS St. John's Children's Hospital

Springfield, IL

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

05/2019—Present

Academic Appointments

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Springfield, IL

Chairman

04/2019—Present