Penn Medicine Provider
Orthopaedic Surgery
Emmanuel Gibon, MD, PhD
4.8
(796)
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 40 and up
Penn Orthopaedics Valley Forge
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About me

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery

Dr. Gibon completed a hip and knee replacement surgery fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, as well as a complex pediatric orthopaedic surgery fellowship at New York University (NYU), and an adult hip and knee reconstructive surgery fellowship at the University of Florida (UF). Passionate about basic science, Dr. Gibon also attended Stanford University for two research fellowships. Prior to these fellowships, Dr. Gibon earned his medical degree from the University of Rouen in Normandy, France. Then he completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery and earned a PhD in biomaterials, both from the University of Paris in Paris, France.

Dr. Gibon is the 2023 recipient of the prestigious John Insall Award, from the Knee Society, for his clinical research on knee replacement.

Dr. Gibon is a joint replacement surgeon and exclusively performs hip and knee replacement procedures.

Education and training

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  • Fellowship: University of Alberta
  • Fellowship: University of Florida Health Science Center
  • Fellowship: New York University Medical Center
  • Fellowship: Mayo Clinic

What my patients think about me

Average Rating
4.8

797 reviews

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May 2025
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very good doctor
May 2025
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attentive
May 2025
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very knowledgeable.
May 2025
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very competent doctor.

Insurance accepted

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Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Gibon is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Alqazzaz A, Zhuang T, Smith WE, Gibon E, Nelson CL Higher Pulmonary Embolism Risk in Morbidly Obese Patients on Aspirin Monotherapy after Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Claims Database Analysis , Journal of Arthroplasty: 2025

Karnuta J, Khela H, Smith WE, Schweppe E, Gibon E, Nelson CL Automated Total Hip Arthroplasty Templating: Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Neural Network Model , AAOS Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA, USA: 2025

Smith W, Gibon E, Alqazzaz A, Thorman A, Hamon K, Nelson CL Socioeconomic Factors of Patient Income, Education Level and Health Insurance Influence Postoperative Outcomes and Cost Following Total Hip and Total knee Arthroplasty , CCJR Annual Winter Meeting. Orlando, FL, USA: 2024

Gibon E, Shontz EC, Hutzler LH, Castañeda P Does the Day of the Week or the Time of Day Affect the Length of Stay or Readmission Rate for Pediatric Orthopedic Admissions? , Bulletin of the Hospital for Joint Disease: 2024

Alqazzaz A, Bush AN, Zhuang T, Dehghani B, Gibon E, Nelson CL Acute Total Hip Arthroplasty Following Acetabular Fracture is Associated with a High Risk of Revision, Dislocation, and Periprosthetic Fracture , The Journal of Arthroplasty: 2024

Mojica ES, Gibon E, Castaneda P Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Treatment of Radial Head Subluxation. , Bulletin of the Hospital for Joint Disease, 81(3): 2023,208-211

Gibon E, Takakubo Y, Zwingenberger S, Gallo J, Takagi M, Goodman SB Friend or foe? Inflammation and the foreign body response to orthopedic biomaterials , Journal of Biomedical Materials research. Part A, 112(8): 2023,1172-1187

Emmanuel Gibon, David G Lewallen, Dirk R Larson, Michael J Stuart, Mark W Pagnano, Matthew P Abdel John N. Insall Award: Randomized Clinical Trial of Cementless Versus Cemented Tibial Components: Durable and Reliable at a Mean 10-Years Follow-Up , Journal of Arthroplasty, 38(6S): 2023,S14-S20

Houssam Bouloussa, Zoe Durand, Emmanuel Gibon, Antonia F Chen, Matthew Grant, Azzam Saleh-Mghir, Mohsin Mirza, Bradley Stutzman, Claudio Vergari, James Yue, Nelson Anzala, Dorian Bonnot, Sandrine Albac, Othman Bouloussa, Delphine Croisier A Novel Antibacterial Compound Decreases MRSA Biofilm Formation Without the Use of Antibiotics in A Murine Model , Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 42(1): 2023,202-211

Prieto AH, Gibon E Antibiotic-Loaded Bone Cement in Total Knee Arthroplasty , Essentials of Cemented Knee Arthroplasty, 123(11): 2022,875-879