Kermit Muhammad, MD

Dr. Kermit Muhammad is a native of Washington, D.C. He completed hisundergraduate degree in psychology at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.He then completed medical school at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He returned to Washington, D.C. to complete his residencyin orthopedic surgery at Howard University Hospital. He then received additionaltraining in hand and microsurgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.He is currently board certified in orthopedic surgery by the American Board ofOrthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) and possesses a Certificate of Added Qualification(CAQ) in hand surgery. Dr. Muhammad is an active member of the American Academyof Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH),Chicago Society for Surgery of the Hand (CSSH), Kankakee Medical Society andIllinois State Medical Society.

Through his research in the field of hand surgery, Dr. Muhammad has presentedat academic forums across the globe, including in Dublin, Ireland, and Zliten,Libya. Notably, he spoke at the 11th Triennial Congress of the InternationalFederation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH) in Seoul, South Korea, wherehe discussed his experience in introducing hand surgery in North Africa. In additionto his academic presentations, he has published reports in the American Journal ofOrthopaedics and the Journal of the Southern Orthopaedic Association.

In his practice, Dr. Muhammad received the Physician Service Excellence Award atRiverside Medical Center in Kankakee.