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Academic Achievements:
- Fellowship :
- Clinical Fellow at "The International Center for Limb Lengthening and Limb Deformity" Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
( 2005-2006) - Residency:
- NYCPM PSR-24 2004-2005 (Metropolitan Hospital Center NY, NY ) Chief Resident
- NYCPM PSR-12 2003-2004 (Metropolitan Hospital Center NY, NY)
- NYCPM RPR 2002-2003 (Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Center Staten Island , NY)
Publications and Posters :
In progress
- Fibular Hemimela, Manifestation In Foot and Ankle, A New Classification (poster ACFAS 2006).
- De-Syndactilization With Mini External Fixator ,Without The Use Of Skin Graft.
- Talo-calcaneal osteotomy ( U-osteotomy ), indication and technique
15th Annual Baltimore Limb Deformity Course ( 2004)- ISKD Surgeon Training Course
- Ponseti Club foot Casting Course
- Illizarov Circular Frame Course
- 16th Annual Baltimore Limb Deformity Course ( 2005)
- Table instructor ( main course
- Taylor Spatial Frame Course ( foot application)
- Non union Workshop
The International Center for Limb Lengthening (ICLL) is world renowned for its expertise in limb lengthening and reconstruction. The ICLL, part of the Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics, opened at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore in July of 2001 with a brand new six-story facility designed by the Center's co-founders, Drs. Dror Paley (first orthopedic surgeon to introduce the Ilizarov method to the United States and Canada in 1985), John E. Herzenberg(chief of pediatric orthopedics at Sinai Hospital and co-director of the ICLL) the first team in the United States to dedicate their practices to limb lengthening and deformity reconstruction.- Fellowship Clinical Experience:
- The treatment of children and adults with upper and lower limb length discrepancies, short stature, limb deformities, nonunions, bone defects, bone infections, joint contractures, arthritis and distraction treatment of Perthes disease.
- Participating at a major referral center for the Ponseti method of Clubfoot treatment. This facility offers friday clinics exclusively dedicated to the management of infants with clubfoot deformity and provides extensive experience with castings and tenotomies.
- During my training I have been involved in a multi-modal approach to patient management by being an active participant with the departments of physical therapy, occupational therapy, radiology and the gait analysis lab all of which operate exclusively for the ICLL.
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- Deformity Planning ( CORA)
- Muscle , Tendon Transfers
- Application of External fixation (TSF, Ilizarov, monolateral)
- Bone Deformities, Malunions, Non unions (distraction Osteogenesis)
- Supramalleolar and Focal dome Osteotomies for (Varus, Valgus, Procurvatum ,recurvatum and rotational) doformities
- Ankle Fusion, Flattop Talus, ankle distraction (ilizarov , subtalar distraction for treatment of OA)
- Flexion/extension Contractures of ankle and knee
- Limb Lengthening ( ISKD, TSF, Ilizarov, LRS )
- Treatment of Fibular Hamimelia, Tibia Hamemelia, Congenital Femoral Deficiency
- Ponseti treatment for Clubfoot deformity, and PMR.
- Perthes ( core decompression + Hip distraction)
- Fixator assisted Nailing (FAN), Plating (FAP) and lengthening over nail (LON)
- Charcot Foot treatment with external fixator
- Corticotomies ( multiple hole technique) and osteotomies (Gigli saw technique)
- Achondroplasia and Hypochondroplasia
- Entrapments ; Tarsal tunnel, Peroneals, femoral nerve
- Severe Cavus foot , pes planus and neglected clubfoot using (ilizarov fixator/TSF)
Fellowship Surgical Experience: