Board Certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, Dr. Kenneth Sands is a member of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery. At First Choice Medical Group in Melbourne Florida, he specializes in minimally invasive total hip replacement surgery, total hip resurfacing, direct anterior total hip replacement surgery, computer-assisted total joint replacement, and the Oxford unicompartmental knee replacement surgery. Dr. Sands is the first surgeon in the State of Florida to be trained and certified to perform ACL-sparing total knee replacements. A graduate of Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Dr. Sands received his undergraduate education from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina; completed an Orthopaedic Surgery residency at State University of New York in Brooklyn, and completed a fellowship in Orthopaedic Joint Replacement Surgery at the Florida Orthopaedic Institute in Tampa. Prior to moving to Florida, Dr. Sands helped develop a nationally recognized total joint center of excellence in Rome, Georgia and served as the medical director. Dr. Sands also served in the United States Army and directed the Adult Joint Reconstruction program at William Beaumont Army Medical Center, as well as served on the academic faculty at Texas Tech University Health Science Center School of Medicine in El Paso, Texas and as a Director of the Floyd Medical Center Total Joint Center of Excellence. Hospital