From 2004 NIH data, the following is the list for Orthopaedic program grants from top to bottom: 1. Yale University 2. University of Rochester 3. Washington University 4. Case Western Reserve 5. University of Iowa 6. University of Minnesota 7. University of Michigan 8. University of Pennsylvania 9. University of Pittsburgh 10. University of Washington 11. University of CA - San Francisco 12. SUNY Upstate 13. Jefferson Medical College 14. David Geffen UCLA 15. University of Vermont 16. Mount Sinai 17. Johns Hopkins 18. Penn State 19. University of Virginia 20. University of Miami 21. Indiana University 22. University of CA - Irvine 23. University of CA - Davis 24. University of Florida 25. University of CA - San Diego 26. University of North Carolina 27. University of Arizona 28. University of Maryland 29. University of Tennessee 30. Loyola University 31. Boston University 32. SUNY Stony Brook Comprehensive info (# of grants, amounts, etc.) can be found here: http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/award/ran ... dics04.htm

Keep in mind that this list is a list of medical schools in terms of reseach funding earmarked to the orthopaedic department of that school. This list does not include independent hospitals, nor does it include medical schools whose Orthopaedics division is within the Surgery Department. Also, this is only NIH dollars, not total research money (something that would be very hard to tally). This list is notably deficient of a lot of major Orthopaedic research institutions. With all due respect, I find it very hard to believe that Loyola and Stony Brook get more Orthopaedic funding than HSS, HJD, Duke, or Mayo.