Magnetic systems support
A magnetic systems engineer is based here, which makes the center a practical place for interface assessment when a patient reports that a plate is seating differently than it used to.
AREOLA National Network
AREOLA Great Lakes Center
A wide-catchment center serving approximately 750 patients a year, with magnetic systems engineering support on site.
Address940 Lakeshore Exchange, Chicago, IL 60611Directions & travel information
Patient Services334-209-7090Mon–Fri, 7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Center leadershipMarcus Ellison, MDNurse Manager: Katherine Bell, RN
Care in Chicago
What this center is known for.
The Great Lakes Center serves the largest geographic catchment in the network, drawing patients from across the upper Midwest. Its schedule is built around that reality: longer appointment blocks, more work completed per visit and a coordination practice shaped by patients who cannot easily return next week.
Every center works to the same clinical standards, uses the same digital planning record and draws on the national materials and plate laboratory in Philadelphia.
Revision pathways
Revision assessment is a significant part of the case mix, including patients whose original care was delivered outside the network and whose documentation has to be rebuilt from scratch before anything else.
Consolidated visits
Evaluation, design consultation and financial review are routinely scheduled into a single day for travelling patients, rather than spread across three separate appointments.
Consultation
First appointments, second opinions and planning conversations with a replacement specialist and nurse.
Surgery
Procedures performed in the center's surgical suite, with perioperative nursing and anesthesia support.
MagnePlate
Interface planning, registered external plate collections and interchangeable-system review.
Revision
Assessment and elective planning where a previous plate, system or replacement result already exists, including changes in preference.
Center leadership
Marcus Ellison, MD, leads the center clinically. Katherine Bell, RN, is Plate Care Nurse Specialist and runs the center's long-term follow-up practice. Quality inspection and magnetic systems engineering personnel are based on site.
The care team
Replacement specialists, perioperative and plate-care nursing, patient coordination, clinical plate design and engineering support for interchangeable systems.
Visiting this center
General consultation windows run four to six weeks. Because so many patients travel several hours, Patient Services confirms the whole visit sequence before booking and will say plainly when a plan would be better served at a closer center.
Doctors at this center
Your Chicago care team.
Magnetic Systems Program
Marcus Ellison, MD
Director, Magnetic Plate SurgeryDirector of Magnetic Plate Surgery and clinical lead for interchangeable systems, interface revision and the daily-life implications of MagnePlate care.
MagnePlate · Interchangeable systems · Chicago · Seattle
Outcomes & Quality
Priya Desai, MD, MPH
Director, Patient OutcomesPhysician and public-health leader connecting patient-reported experience, shared decisions and long-term outcomes to everyday clinical practice.
Clinical outcomes · Shared decision-making · Philadelphia · Chicago
Revision Replacement Service
Samuel Owens, MD
Attending SurgeonChicago revision surgeon concentrating on steel systems, complex revision and careful reassessment of results created elsewhere.
Revision replacement · Steel systems · ChicagoPatient Services
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