Orthopaedic Surgery

The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery provides a lecture series to junior medical students. Series objectives are to:

1. Introduce the specialty of orthopaedic surgery.
2. Teach physical diagnosis of the musculoskeletal system.
3. Review care of common orthopaedic conditions.
4. Survey orthopaedic subspecialties and orthoapedic surgery.
5. Stimulate students to consider careers in orthopaedic surgery.
6. Stimulate interactive discussion of various orthopaedic conditions.
7. Communicate high-yield orthopaedic board topics for future self-study.

Chair

Thomas Donaldson

Assistant Chair

Olumide Danisa

Division of Hand Surgery

M. Daniel Wongworawat, Head

Division of Spine Service

Olummide Danisa, Head

Primary faculty

Kofi Agyeman

Jonathan Allen

Nirav Amin

Duane Anderson

Michael Baldwin

Sean Balkcom

William Bowen

William Bunnell

Thomas Burgdorff

Paul Burton

Jason Chen

John Chrisler

Olumide Danisa

Thomas Donaldson

Joseph Elsissy

Peter Elsissy

Anthony Essilfie

Scott Fischer

Daniel Galat

Vance Gardner

David Gazzaniga

Ronny Ghazal

Phillip Glivar

Hrishikesh Gogineni

Barry Grames

Grigor Grigoryan

Robert Grumet

Jessica Guillen

Todd Guthrie

Zachary Hadley

Christopher Hayes

Brian Hodges

Gail Hopkins

Kenneth Jahng

Christopher Jobe

Andrew Kim

David Kruse

Connor LaRose

Sang Le

Christopher LeBrun

D. Allen MacKenzie

James Matiko

Clifford Merkel

M. Kenneth Mudge

Henry Ndasi

Scott Nelson

Dylan Nugent

Timothy Nunn

Daniel Patton

Kevin Phan

Wesley Phipatanakul

Carlos Prietto

Miguel Prietto

Rebecca Rajfer

Barth Riedel

Tyler Roberts

Ronald Roiz

Erik Schnaser

Brian Schneiderman

Harold Schutte

Akash Shah

Michael Shepard

James Shook

John Skubic

Jason Solomon

John Steinmann

Husan Syed

Arthur Thiel

Robert Vercio

Sarah Walker

Barry Watkins

Mark Weber

Nadine Williams

Peter Wilton

Andrew Wong

M. Daniel Wongworawat

Dheeraj Yalamanchili

Siamak Yasmeh

Tabitha Young

Lee Zuckerman

Secondary faculty

Allie Blackburn

Wayne Cheng

Subburaman Mohan

Robin Pueschel