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Professor and Chairman
Specialty: Arthritis and Joint Replacement Clinic
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353.2808 (Phone) / (415) 353.2956 (Fax)
Dr. Thomas Vail is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. After graduating from the Duke University School of Engineering cum laude with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, he earned his medical degree at the Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University, Chicago. He completed his internship in General and Thoracic surgery and residency in Orthopaedic surgery at Duke University Medical Center, and then went on to complete a fellowship in Adult Reconstructive Surgery.
Dr. Vail's research interests include hip and knee joint biomechanics, biomaterials, articular cartilage injury and repair, and clinical outcomes after joint replacement. His clinical interests include conservative joint reconstruction options for younger patients, hip and knee joint replacement, hip resurfacing, less invasive approaches, management of bone loss, and treatment of avascular necrosis.
Associate Professor and Vice Chair
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353.2808 (Phone) / (415) 353.2956 (Fax)
Kevin J. Bozic, MD, MBA is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and a member of the core faculty of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Bozic is a graduate of the UCSF School of Medicine and the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program. Additionally, he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. Dr. Bozic has fellowship training in Adult Reconstructive Surgery from Rush Medical College in Chicago.
Dr. Bozic’s clinical interests are in adult reconstructive surgery of the hip and knee, with an emphasis on primary and revision hip and knee replacement. His research interests are broadly in the fields of health policy and health care services research, and specifically in the areas of health care technology assessment, cost-effectiveness analysis, shared decision making, and the impact of health care reform on cost and quality. In addition to his clinical and research activities, Dr. Bozic is actively involved in numerous regional and national health policy initiatives, including the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Analysis Committee (MedCAC), the Integrated Healthcare Association’s Value Assessment of Medical Technologies Program, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Blue Distinction Program, and the California Health Care Foundation’s orthopaedic registry project. Dr. Bozic also holds both regional and national leadership positions, as a member of the Executive Board of the California Orthopaedic Association and as Chair of the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgery (AAOS) Health Care Systems Committee.
Dr. Bozic has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation’s Clinical Research Award, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeon’s Clinician-Scientist Traveling Fellowship Award, the American Orthopaedic Association’s American-British-Canadian Traveling Fellowship Award, and the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeon’s James A. Rand Young Investigator Award.
Clinical Professor, Chief of Service - VA
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353.2808 (Phone) / (415) 353.2956 (Fax)
Dr. Harry E. Jergesen's interests include reconstructive surgery and hip and knee replacement. His research has focused on osteonecrosis (death of bone tissue) of the hip and on stimulating bone growth in the body (osteoinduction) by demineralized bone matrix.
Jergesen graduated from Harvard College in 1968 and received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1972. He completed two years of general surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and a residency in orthopedic surgery in the Combined Harvard Orthopedic Residency Program. He was chief resident at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. In 1978, he was appointed assistant director of Rehabilitation Engineering Research and Development at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where he now serves as chief of Orthopedic Surgery. In addition to his work at the Veterans Hospital, Dr. Jergesen works as an attending arthroplasty surgeon in the UCSF Arthritis Center where he specializes in surgery of the hip and knee.
A recent focus in Dr. Jergesen's clinical work has been in the area of overseas healthcare. In addition to participating in medical missions to Central and South America, he is active in the orthopaedic section of the UCSF Global Health Sciences Program, designed to promote academic ties with UCSF and medical schools in developing countries and in providing care in underserved areas in our country.
Assistant Professor in Residence
Specialty: Arthritis and Joint Replacement Clinic
Research Labs
4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121-1598
(415) 221-4810
Alfred Kuo graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in biochemistry, and then went on to receive a PhD in biochemistry and his medical degree at UCSF as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program. He was a resident in orthopaedic surgery and a research fellow at the University of California, Davis before completing a fellowship in lower extremity reconstruction at the Scripps Clinic in San Diego.
Kuo has received numerous awards and has published papers in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, the Journal of Arthroplasty and the Journal of Cell Biology. Here at UCSF, he works closely with Hubert Kim, MD, PhD at San Francisco Veterans Medical Center, attends surgery and clinic at San Francisco General Hospital and continues his basis research.
Professor, Vice Chairman
Specialty: Arthritis and Joint Replacement Clinic
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353.2808 (Phone) / (415) 353.2956 (Fax)
Dr. Michael Ries is chief of the UCSF Arthroplasty Service and a specialist in the treatment of arthritis patients who require hip and knee treatment. He joined UCSF Medical Center in 1997, after serving as an arthritis fellow in the Department of Orthopedics at the University of Colorado in Denver.
Ries earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, NH. He completed his general surgery residency at North Shore University Hospital in Manhassett, N.Y. and his orthopedic residency at State Hospital of New York at Stony Brook.
Assistant Professor in Residence
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353.2808 (Phone) / (415) 353.9643 (Fax)
Hubert Kim graduated with Honors and with Distinction from Stanford University in 1986 with a B.S. in Biological Sciences. He graduated from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1993, receiving both his MD degree and a PhD degree in Cancer Biology as a Howard Hughes Pre-doctoral fellow. He completed his residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California San Francisco in 1998.
Upon completion of his residency, Dr. Kim joined the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco and was appointed as a Staff Physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. In 2001 he joined the practice at the San Francisco General Hospital Division of Orthopaedic Surgery as an Attending Physician specializing in joint replacement and adult reconstruction.
Dr. Kim’s research focus is the molecular and cellular mechanisms responsible for secondary injury cascades that are set in motion after mechanical trauma. He is particularly interested in tissues that have a very limited capacity for healing and regeneration where preservation of existing cells and tissue may be of particular clinical significance. Specifically, he is investigating the mechanisms involved in programmed cell death following acute trauma involving articular cartilage and the spinal cord. His goal is to eventually apply lessons learned in the laboratory to the design of better treatments for patients.
Chief, Sports Medicine, Assistant Professor in Residence
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353.2808 (Phone) / (415) 353.9643 (Fax)
Dr. C. Benjamin Ma's special interests include sports medicine, shoulder surgery, such as arthroscopy and shoulder replacement, knee surgery and elbow arthroscopy. In addition to his clinical specialties, he is also involved in research on cartilage imaging and dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of ACL injured knees. He has also had multiple publications on the improvement of outcomes following rotator cuff surgeries. Ma completed his undergraduate education in bioelectrical engineering at Brown University and went on to earn his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University. He completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also completed a one-year musculoskeletal research fellowship. Following his residency, Ma completed a second fellowship in shoulder and knee surgery and sports medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.
Clinical Professor
San Francisco General Hospital:
2550 23rd Street, Building 9, Second Floor, San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 206-8812 (Phone)
Born in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, R. Richard (Rick) Coughlin attended the United States Air Force Academy before graduating with honors with a B.S. in Psychology at the University of Maryland in 1974. He attended graduate school in Clinical Psychology at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. He completed his medical school graduating Magna Cum Laude at the Universidad Centrale De Caribe in Bayamon, Puerto Rico in 1981. After completing his orthopaedic residency at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City in 1986, Dr.Coughlin received fellowship training in Sports Medicine with Dr. Fred Allman at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia. He then completed a Foot and Ankle Fellowship with Roger Mann in Oakland, California.
Dr Coughlin joined the private practice group of California Pacific Orthopaedics in 1987, where he practiced for 6 years. During this time, he was instrumental, along with his partner Taylor Smith, in initiating the orthopaedic program of Operation Rainbow, a non-governmental organization offering surgical intervention and training in the developing world. He also maintained a clinical appointment with the University of California, San Francisco, (UCSF), attending the Foot/Ankle clinic.
In 1993, Dr. Coughlin joined the full time faculty at UCSF, with a clinical position at San Francisco General, where he concentrated on resident education and program development. Dr. Coughlin has been distinguished with the Teacher of the Year Award in 1997-1998 as well as the award in 2003 for Outstanding Dedication to Resident Education.
During his clinical academic career, Dr. Coughlin has been able to continue his passion of global orthopaedics, with over 20 trips to developing countries, where he has lectured and performed surgery. Some of the countries include Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Russia, China, Vietnam, Venezuela, South Africa and most recently Uganda. He is on the board of Orthopedics Overseas and has taught the Orthopaedic Surgery in Developing Countries course at the Academy for the last 5 years. Dr. Coughlin is quite proud to have implemented an overseas rotation for his senior residents at UCSF in the Transkei of South Africa at Bedford Orthopaedic Hospital. Dr. Coughlin has written several articles advocating volunteerism in orthopaedics. Furthering this endeavor, Dr. Coughlin was awarded his master's degree in Public Health in Developing Countries at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in November 2004.
After completing his Masters Degree has continued his work in orthopaedics in third world countries, in 2006, Dr. Coughlin was awarded the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' "Humanitarian of the Year Award", which is given to one surgeon world-wide annually, for care of disadvantaged populations both at home and abroad. Also in 2006, Dr. Coughlin was the founder and one of three principle administrators of the Institute for Global Orthopedics and Traumatology, an initiative developed within the Department of Orthopaedics at UCSF. Dr. Coughlin is currently chairman of Orthopedics Overseas, an NGO whose goal is advancing musculoskeletal healthcare worldwide through volunteerism, emphasizing teaching and training.
Assistant Professor in Residence
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353.2808 (Phone) / (415) 353.9643 (Fax)
Dr. Nancy Kadel is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in foot and ankle surgery and dance injuries. A former dancer and dance teacher, Kadel focuses on integrating medical and surgical care with rehabilitation, education and research to improve dance injury diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
In addition to treating patients, Kadel is an associate professor of clinical orthopedics. She received a medical degree from the University of Washington, completed the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency in orthopedic surgery and completed a fellowship in foot and ankle surgery at the Boston Foot and Ankle Center at New England Baptist Hospital.
Chief, Foot & Ankle Service, Assistant Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353-2808 (Phone) / (415) 353-9643 (Fax)
1993-1998, B.S., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1999 - 2003, M.D., University of Southern Califoria School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
2003-2004, Orthopaedic Surgery Internship, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
2004-2008, Orthopaedic Surgery Resident, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
2008-2009, Foot and Ankle Fellowship, OrthoCarolina Foot and Ankle Institute, Charlotte, NC
Clinical Professor
San Francisco General Hospital:
2550 23rd Street, Building 9, Second Floor, San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 206-8812 (Phone)
Born in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, R. Richard (Rick) Coughlin attended the United States Air Force Academy before graduating with honors with a B.S. in Psychology at the University of Maryland in 1974. He attended graduate school in Clinical Psychology at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. He completed his medical school graduating Magna Cum Laude at the Universidad Centrale De Caribe in Bayamon, Puerto Rico in 1981. After completing his orthopaedic residency at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City in 1986, Dr.Coughlin received fellowship training in Sports Medicine with Dr. Fred Allman at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia. He then completed a Foot and Ankle Fellowship with Roger Mann in Oakland, California.
Dr Coughlin joined the private practice group of California Pacific Orthopaedics in 1987, where he practiced for 6 years. During this time, he was instrumental, along with his partner Taylor Smith, in initiating the orthopaedic program of Operation Rainbow, a non-governmental organization offering surgical intervention and training in the developing world. He also maintained a clinical appointment with the University of California, San Francisco, (UCSF), attending the Foot/Ankle clinic.
In 1993, Dr. Coughlin joined the full time faculty at UCSF, with a clinical position at San Francisco General, where he concentrated on resident education and program development. Dr. Coughlin has been distinguished with the Teacher of the Year Award in 1997-1998 as well as the award in 2003 for Outstanding Dedication to Resident Education.
During his clinical academic career, Dr. Coughlin has been able to continue his passion of global orthopaedics, with over 20 trips to developing countries, where he has lectured and performed surgery. Some of the countries include Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Russia, China, Vietnam, Venezuela, South Africa and most recently Uganda. He is on the board of Orthopedics Overseas and has taught the Orthopaedic Surgery in Developing Countries course at the Academy for the last 5 years. Dr. Coughlin is quite proud to have implemented an overseas rotation for his senior residents at UCSF in the Transkei of South Africa at Bedford Orthopaedic Hospital. Dr. Coughlin has written several articles advocating volunteerism in orthopaedics. Furthering this endeavor, Dr. Coughlin was awarded his master's degree in Public Health in Developing Countries at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in November 2004.
After completing his Masters Degree has continued his work in orthopaedics in third world countries, in 2006, Dr. Coughlin was awarded the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' "Humanitarian of the Year Award", which is given to one surgeon world-wide annually, for care of disadvantaged populations both at home and abroad. Also in 2006, Dr. Coughlin was the founder and one of three principle administrators of the Institute for Global Orthopedics and Traumatology, an initiative developed within the Department of Orthopaedics at UCSF. Dr. Coughlin is currently chairman of Orthopedics Overseas, an NGO whose goal is advancing musculoskeletal healthcare worldwide through volunteerism, emphasizing teaching and training.
Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353-2808 (Phone) / (415) 353-9643 (Fax)
Dr. Nancy Kadel is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in foot and ankle surgery and dance injuries. A former dancer and dance teacher, Kadel focuses on integrating medical and surgical care with rehabilitation, education and research to improve dance injury diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
In addition to treating patients, Kadel is an associate professor of clinical orthopedics. She received a medical degree from the University of Washington, completed the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency in orthopedic surgery and completed a fellowship in foot and ankle surgery at the Boston Foot and Ankle Center at New England Baptist Hospital.
Assistant Clinical Professor
San Francisco General Hospital:
2550 23rd Street, Building 9, Second Floor, San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 206-8812 (Phone)
Sandra Martin was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and grew up in Dublin, California. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1980. She received her Doctor of Podiatric Medicine degree from the California College of Podiatric Medicine in San Francisco in 1984. She completed a two year Podiatric Surgical residency sponsored by the California College of Podiatric Medicine in 1986.
Dr. Martin joined the faculty of the California College of Podiatric Medicine in 1987, and was director of the Senior Community Medicine Rotation at San Francisco General Hospital. In 1996, she received the Heather Barton Award for service to the students of the college. She also received the Alumnus of the year award in 1996.Dr. Martin joined the faculty of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco in 1995. Since then, she has been the director of the Diabetic Foot Service at San Francisco General Hospital. She has also been a Committee Chair for the Council on Podiatric Medical Education, as well as a committee member and examiner for the American Board of Podiatric Surgery.
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Chief, Elbow Reconstructive Service
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353.2808 (Phone) / (415) 353.9643 (Fax)
Dr. Lisa Lattanza's clinical interests include reconstruction of the adult and pediatric arm. She has special interest in congenital problems and post-traumatic elbow reconstruction. She is currently involved in research on the biomechanics of the elbow, congenital elbow problems and flexor tendon rehabilitation.
Lattanza, who joined UCSF Medical Center in 1999, received her medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo. After completing her residency in orthopedic surgery at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, she served as a fellow in hand surgery at Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. She also finished additional fellowship training in congenital hand problems at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas.
Assistant Professor in Residence
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353.2808 (Phone) / (415) 353.9643 (Fax)
Dr. Mohana Amirtharajah treats all disorders of the hand and wrist including degenerative conditions, sports injuries and trauma to the bones, tendons and soft tissues. Amirtharajah's primary research interests include tendon biology, development and healing as well as cartilage biology.
Amirtharajah graduated magna cum laude at Brown University and earned a medical degree at New York University School of Medicine. She completed a residency in orthopedic surgery at the University of Iowa and a hand fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Amirtharajah is a member of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery and Orthopaedic Research Society. She is an assistant professor in residence at the UCSF School of Medicine.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353.2808 (Phone) / (415) 353.9643 (Fax)
Dr. Masem is a board certified orthopedic surgeon with advanced certification in surgery of the hand. He is an active member in the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, American Medical Association, California Medical Association, California Orthopedic Association, and Western Orthopedic Association.
Dr. Masem grew up in Minnesota, attending Macalester College and the University of Minnesota Medical School where he graduated from medical school in 1975. Dr. Masem completed his internship and additional training in general surgery and his residency in orthopedic surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He completed a hand surgery fellowship program with Jack Tupper, M.D. in Oakland, California. Upon completion of his clinical training, Dr. Masem spent two years as an orthopaedic research physician at the University of Bern in Bern, Switzerland, and at the Laboratory for Experimental Surgery in Davos, Switzerland. Dr. Masem completed his training in hand, upper extremity, and microsurgery as Clinical and Research Fellow in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. Dr. Masem began his private practice in Oakland, California in September of 1987.
Currently, Dr. Masem is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, training and teaching Orthopaedic residents and fellows in techniques of upper extremity surgery and diagnosis. Dr. Masem is Chief of the Division of Hand Surgery at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center and Immediate Past Chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. Since 1995, Dr. Masem has been a consultant in hand and upper extremity injuries for the University of California, Berkeley athletic teams and an attending at the University Health Service.
Dr. Masem has authored a number of articles and has given numerous lectures on both basic science and the clinical aspects of upper extremity orthopaedic surgery.
Assistant Professor in Residence
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353.9400 (Phone) / (415) 885-3862 (Fax)
Dr. Nancy Kadel is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in foot and ankle surgery and dance injuries. A former dancer and dance teacher, Kadel focuses on integrating medical and surgical care with rehabilitation, education and research to improve dance injury diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
In addition to treating patients, Kadel is an associate professor of clinical orthopedics. She received a medical degree from the University of Washington, completed the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency in orthopedic surgery and completed a fellowship in foot and ankle surgery at the Boston Foot and Ankle Center at New England Baptist Hospital.
Assistant Professor in Residence
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353.9400 (Phone) / (415) 514-6144 (Fax)
Dr. Anthony Luke is board certified in primary care for sports medicine. His special interests include the non-operative management of many sports medicine injuries along with prevention training and counseling. His research interests include epidemiology and injury prevention of high school sports injuries.
Luke completed his undergraduate education, medical degree and family practice residency at the University of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. He completed a primary care sports medicine fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Boston and master's degree in public health at Harvard University.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Parnassus Heights:
400 Parnassus Ave., 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94143
(925) 866-2660 (Phone) / (925) 866-2661 (Fax)
Dr. Sawyer holds a BS in Physical Therapy from California State University Fresno. After a 10 year career in Physical Therapy, she went on to receive her M.S. in Human Physiology and her M.D. from the University of California, Davis. Upon completion of her Orthopaedic Surgery residency at Stanford University, she pursued dual fellowship training in Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery and Pediatric/Adolescent Sports Medicine, both at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Orthopedic program.
Dr. Sawyer has been in the East Bay and Tri-Valley area for nearly 10 years where she built a busy private practice specializing in pediatric/adolescent orthopedic surgery and youth sports medicine. In her clinical practice she combines her expertise in physical therapy and exercise physiology with her medical and surgical skills to provide comprehensive musculoskeletal care. Throughout her career Dr Sawyer has maintained a strong research interest in childhood bone development, which she pursued as an Adjunct Clinical Scientist at Children’s Hospital of Oakland Research Institute and as the Director of the Pediatric Bone Health Consortium. This work and her other research interests including sports injury prevention, anterior cruciate ligament repair, and osteoporosis will be expanded upon in her new role at UCSF.
Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery
Mt. Zion:
1600 Divisadero St., 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94115
(415) 885.3800 (Phone) / (415) 885.3800 (Fax)
Dr. Richard J. O'Donnell's major areas of interest include means of prosthetic fixation for massive skeletal reconstructions, multimodal neoadjuvant management of soft tissue sarcomas and using bone graft substitutes to treat cystic bone defects. His clinical research is directed toward adult and pediatric orthopedic oncology.
After receiving undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard, O'Donnell completed a general surgery internship at New England Deaconess Hospital. He also completed the Harvard Combined Orthopedic Residency Training Program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He joined the UCSF Medical Center in 1998.
Director, Orthotics & Prosthetics Services
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353-2808 (Phone) / (415) 353-9643 (Fax)
Mr. Racette has practiced orthotics and prosthetics since his graduation from the University of Washington’s orthotic and prosthetic curriculum. He spent the first period of his career in the Los Angeles area where he served as a clinician, facility manager and vice president for professional services for Orthomedics Inc. While in Los Angeles he served as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California where he specialized in Functional Fracture Bracing, working for Dr. Augusto Sarmeinto.
He has been an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF and Director of the Orthotic and Prosthetic Centers at UCSF since 1998 and specializes in prosthetics and lower extremity orthotics. He serves as the residency director for the orthotic and prosthetic NCOPE program at UCSF. Mr. Racette served as the president of the national professional association, The American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association in 2006.
Special Interests
Functional Fracture Bracing
Lower Extremity Prosthetics
Specialty Orthotic Cases
Orthotist, Clinical Support Staff
Parnassus Heights:
521 Parnassus, Room C-36, San Francisco, CA 94143
(415) 476.1788 (Phone) / (415) 476.7003 (Fax)
Mr. Christensen received his undergraduate degree at the University of California Berkley in Physiology followed by his Masters of Science from Stanford University, Physical Therapy. Being closely associated with Orthotics, he decided a career in the profession was desirable and he attended courses at UCLA and Northwestern on his way to becoming a Certified Orthotist.
Darrell has been practicing at UCSF since 1982 and has vast areas of experience; scoliosis, spinal trauma, pediatric orthotics, cranial remolding, post polio syndrome, to name a few. He serves as the Orthotic Residency trainer for the NCOPE residency training program. He teaches in the graduate curriculum of physical therapy at UCSF and has given many papers at National professional meetings. His current research project involves the use of magnets to correct Pectus Excavatum deformity.
Special Interests
Spinal Orthotics
Cranial Orthotics
Post-Polio Syndrome
Pediatric Orthotics
Orthotist, Clinical Support Staff
San Francisco General Hospital:
1001 Potrero Ave., Room 3A36, San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 206.8812 (Phone) / (415) 647.3733 (Fax)
Ray Diaz was born and raised in Redwood City, California. Ray attended Sequoia High School and upon graduation in 1992 was at Stanford Hospital Equipment Management. He spent several years in the home health care industry and was hired at an entry level position in the orthotic field at Hanger O&P, San Mateo, in 1997. He worked as an orthotic technician, fabricating various orthoses for a very busy office. As Ray continued his employment at Hanger O&P he graduated into patient care and after passing certification exams became Board for Orthotist/Prosthetist Certified in April 2004. An opportunity arose in the spring of 2004 to become American Board Certified and in June of 2004 he became a Certified Orthotist. He was employed at San Francisico General Hospital Orthotic adn Prosthetic Center in January 2005 where he treats patients with various upper and lower extremity disorders.
Orthotist and Prosthetist, Clinical Support Staff
Mission Bay Ortho Institute::
Mr. Hurley joined the staff in 2008 after working in the private sector and also volunteering to assist patients in under served populations in Mexico, Nicaragua, and India. He began his education at the University of Denver before completing prosthetic education at California State University, Dominguez Hills and orthotic education at the University of Connecticut, Newington.
Mr., Hurley has integrated into the practice with his special interests including working at the RunSafe Clinic. He is also interested in expanding the educational expertise to other underserved areas in the world.
Orthotist, Clinical Support Staff
Parnassus Heights:
521 Parnassus, Room C-36, San Francisco, CA 94143
(415) 476.1788 (Phone) / (415) 476.7003 (Fax)
In 1985 Mr. Kane earned his Bachelor of Science degree in industrial technology education in plastics, an integral part of modern orthotic treatment. He then completed his orthotic education at Northwestern University and began practice in San Francisco.
Mr. Kane as extensive experience in Halo Traction, post operative spinal orthotics as well as many other trauma orthotic devices. He also assists in the orthotic residency training program at UCSF as well as nursing in-services @ UCSF. Mr. Kane has recently developed methodology for treating lower extremity deformity in premature infants.
Orthotist and Prosthetist, Clinical Support Staff
Parnassus Heights:
521 Parnassus, Room C-36, San Francisco, CA 94143
(415) 476.1788 (Phone) / (415) 476.7003 (Fax)
Ms. McDonald was raised in the central valley of Washington State before pursuing her career in Orthotics and Prosthetics. She attended the University of Washington in Seattle where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Prosthetics and Orthotics in 2006.
After completing both an orthotic and prosthetic residency at UCSF she joined the staff in 2008. Although caring for patients a wide range of clinical indications, Ms. McDonald has specialized in Upper Extremity prosthetics.
Special Interests
Upper Extremity Prosthetics
Body Powered and Myoelectric Pediatric Orthotics
Immediate Post-Operative Prosthetic Care
Practice Manager, Administration
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353-2808 (Phone) / (415) 353-9643 (Fax)
Mrs. O’Donnell brings a wealth of knowledge of the orthotic and prosthetic profession. Beginning in the mid 1980’s with Hittenberger Orthotics and Prosthetics, a long standing company she gained practice management experience from insurance authorization and reimbursement to clinical practice management. She joined UCSF in 1998 as the practice manager for all three centers. She has been responsible for building the administrative staff and establishing the environment for a positive patient experience. Mrs. O’Donnell is a Certified Fitter Mastectomy. In 2006 she established the UCSF Amputee Support Group which she coordinates monthly meetings, peer support training, and SFGH Amputee Grant assistant. Not only is she recognized by her department peers but was awarded by UCSF, the UCSF Great People Award in 2007.
Orthotist and Prosthetist, Clinical Support Staff
Parnassus Heights:
521 Parnassus, Room C-36, San Francisco, CA 94143
(415) 476.1788 (Phone) / (415) 476.7003 (Fax)
Dr. Masem is a board certified orthopedic surgeon with advanced certification in surgery of the hand. He is an active member in the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, American Medical Association, California Medical Association, California Orthopedic Association, and Western Orthopedic Association.
Mrs. Truman brings a wide and diverse range of experiences to the Orthotic and Prosthetic Centers @ UCSF since she came to complete her prosthetic residency in 2006. After deciding she liked to care for patients instead of paper, her engineering days, Mrs. Truman attended Northwestern University for her Orthotic Certification program followed a few years later for prosthetic Certification.
After residency and clinical care expedience in Cleveland and Iowa, she took time to give back by volunteering in Ecuador. Since coming to UCSF to complete her prosthetic residency, she has become a very visual member of our staff, traveling to various hospitals and centers in San Francisco. Mrs. Truman is the go to expert for the WalkAide lower extremity electro stimulation device, participating in the clinical trials ongoing at the San Francisco VA.
Orthotist/Prosthetist, Clinical Support Staff
Mt. Zion:
1701 Divisadero st., Suite 280, San Francisco, CA 94115
(415) 353.7200 (Phone) / (415) 353.7299 (Fax)
Dr. Masem is a board certified orthopedic surgeon with advanced certification in surgery of the hand. He is an active member in the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, American Medical Association, California Medical Association, California Orthopedic Association, and Western Orthopedic Association.
Dr. Masem grew up in Minnesota, attending Macalester College and the University of Minnesota Medical School where he graduated from medical school in 1975. Dr. Masem completed his internship and additional training in general surgery and his residency in orthopedic surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He completed a hand surgery fellowship program with Jack Tupper, M.D. in Oakland, California. Upon completion of his clinical training, Dr. Masem spent two years as an orthopaedic research physician at the University of Bern in Bern, Switzerland, and at the Laboratory for Experimental Surgery in Davos, Switzerland. Dr. Masem completed his training in hand, upper extremity, and microsurgery as Clinical and Research Fellow in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. Dr. Masem began his private practice in Oakland, California in September of 1987.
Currently, Dr. Masem is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, training and teaching Orthopaedic residents and fellows in techniques of upper extremity surgery and diagnosis. Dr. Masem is Chief of the Division of Hand Surgery at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center and Immediate Past Chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. Since 1995, Dr. Masem has been a consultant in hand and upper extremity injuries for the University of California, Berkeley athletic teams and an attending at the University Health Service.
Dr. Masem has authored a number of articles and has given numerous lectures on both basic science and the clinical aspects of upper extremity orthopaedic surgery.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Specialty: Pain Management
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353-2808 (Phone) / (415) 353-9643 (Fax)
Dr. Sibel Demir-Deviren is a physiatrist, a physician specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Physiatrists treat a wide range of problems from sore shoulders to spinal cord injuries with the aim of restoring function. They see patients in all age groups and treat problems that touch upon all the major systems in the body.
Demir-Deviren's clinical interests are musculoskeletal disorders, acute and chronic pain, spine interventional therapy, joint and soft tissue injections and peripheral nerve blocks. Her research interests include assessment of clinical outcomes of spine interventional therapy, intervertebral disc injury mechanisms and opioid-induced hyperalgesia.
Demir-Deviren, an assistant clinical professor in UCSF's Department of Orthopedic Surgery, also completed post-doctoral work in the department and was a research specialist whose topics included clinical outcomes in patients with spine disorders, therapeutic exercise, scoliosis, rheumatoid arthritis and Parkinson's disease.
Associate Professor; Chief, Pediatric Orthopaedics
Parnassus Heights:
400 Parnassus Ave., 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94143
(415) 353.2967 (Phone) / (415) 353.2299 (Fax)
1984: BA, Classics, BSc, Biology; Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
1990: MD, Stanford Medical School, Palo Alto, CA
1997: Residency, Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
1998: Fellowship, Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard University and Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
Assistant Clinical Professor
Parnassus Heights:
400 Parnassus Ave., 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94143
(415) 353.2967 (Phone) / (415) 353.2299 (Fax)
Dr. Eliana Delgado, a former nurse, has specialized training in treating children's bone disorders. She was a trauma doctor at San Francisco General Hospital before serving a pediatric orthopedic fellowship at St. Louis Shriners' Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. She joined UCSF Medical Center in 1989.
Delgado received her undergraduate degrees from the College of San Mateo and San Francisco State University in California, followed by a graduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley. Delgado earned her medical degree from UCSF, where she also completed her orthopedic surgery residency.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Parnassus Heights:
400 Parnassus Ave., 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94143
(415) 353.2967 (Phone) / (415) 353.2299 (Fax)
Dr. Sawyer holds a BS in Physical Therapy from California State University Fresno. After a 10 year career in Physical Therapy, she went on to receive her M.S. in Human Physiology and her M.D. from the University of California, Davis. Upon completion of her Orthopaedic Surgery residency at Stanford University, she pursued dual fellowship training in Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery and Pediatric/Adolescent Sports Medicine, both at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Orthopedic program.
Dr. Sawyer has been in the East Bay and Tri-Valley area for nearly 10 years where she built a busy private practice specializing in pediatric/adolescent orthopedic surgery and youth sports medicine. In her clinical practice she combines her expertise in physical therapy and exercise physiology with her medical and surgical skills to provide comprehensive musculoskeletal care. Throughout her career Dr Sawyer has maintained a strong research interest in childhood bone development, which she pursued as an Adjunct Clinical Scientist at Children’s Hospital of Oakland Research Institute and as the Director of the Pediatric Bone Health Consortium. This work and her other research interests including sports injury prevention, anterior cruciate ligament repair, and osteoporosis will be expanded upon in her new role at UCSF.
Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics
Parnassus Heights:
400 Parnassus Ave., ACC, Third Floor, San Francisco, CA 94143
(866) 81-SPINE (Phone) / (415) 353.4047 (Fax)
bervens@orthosurg.ucsf.edu
Dr. Serena Hu's research interests include prediction and prevention of metastatic fractures of the spine that could otherwise lead to paralysis; disc degeneration and its potential prevention or reversal. Her clinical interests include prevention of complications and treatment of adult scoliosis. She joined the UCSF faculty in 1991.
Hu received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. She completed her medical training at McGill University in Montreal, Canada before serving an internship in general surgery at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. Hu was a resident in orthopedic surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery, Cornell University Medical School in New York. Following her residency, Hu completed a fellowship in spine and scoliosis surgery at Rancho Los Amigos in Downey, CA.
Associate Professor in Residence
Parnassus Heights:
400 Parnassus Ave., ACC, Third Floor, San Francisco, CA 94143
(866) 81-SPINE (Phone) / (415) 353.4047 (Fax)
bervens@orthosurg.ucsf.edu
Dr. Sigurd H. Berven has a strong clinical interest in spinal disorders of children and adults. He is interested in pediatric and adult deformity, degenerative conditions of the spine, spinal tumors and spinal trauma. His research interests include assessment of clinical outcomes of surgery, and minimally invasive techniques in spine surgery.
Berven also is studying cellular and molecular techniques for the biological regeneration of components of the spine including the intervertebral disc. Berven has been an invited speaker at national and international conferences, speaking on topics including measurement of outcomes in spine surgery, evaluation and management of spinal disorders, and advanced techniques in spine surgery.
He is a graduate of the Harvard Combined Orthopedic Residency. After completing his residency, he had further clinical training in Spine Surgery as a clinical fellow at UCSF and in pediatric orthopedic surgery as the chief resident at Boston Children's Hospital. Berven studied human biology as an undergraduate at Stanford University. He was a graduate student at Oxford University in philosophy, politics and economics. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School.
For more information, please visit Dr. Berven's page on www.spineuniverse.com. Research:
Dr. Berven is currently interested in basic science studies in the molecular basis of spine fusion, and the mechanical requisites for optimizing fusion rates. He is collecting pedigrees for study of allelic variaton and the genetic basis of congenital and idiopathic scoliosis. He hopes to continue research into clinical outcomes of spine surgery for degenerative conditions of the spine. o Cytokine Expression in the Rabbit Intervertebral Disc o MP-52 Clinical Trial for Lumbar Interbody Arthrodesis o Spinal Deformity Study Group- Clinical Outcomes Research Grant o Kyphon Grant for studies in Biomechanics of vertebral augmentation o DePuy Spine Grant for Studies in the Biomechanics of Cervical Fixation- Translaminar Screws
Professor and Chair Emeritus
Parnassus Heights:
400 Parnassus Ave., ACC, Third Floor, San Francisco, CA 94143
(866) 81-SPINE (Phone) / (415) 353.4047 (Fax)
Dr. David S. Bradford's research interests include biomaterials, tissue engineering and tissue regeneration. His clinical interests are spinal disorders, including scoliosis, kyphosis, spondylolisthesis, and degenerative spine diseases and spine reconstructive surgery. He currently sits on the Scientific Advisory Boards of Orquest, Nuvasive, Cbyon, and SpineUniverse.
Bradford has been chairman and professor of Orthopedic Surgery at UCSF since 1991. Prior to that, he was chief of Spine Surgery at the University of Minnesota Hospitals. He received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and completed his residency and a fellowship at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center/NY Orthopedic Hospital in 1969.
Assistant Professor in Residence
Parnassus Heights:
400 Parnassus Ave., ACC, Third Floor, San Francisco, CA 94143
(866) 81-SPINE (Phone) / (415) 353.4047 (Fax)
devirenv@orthosurg.ucsf.edu
Dr. Burch received a BSc and MSc from the University of Western Ontario in 1994 before attending medical school at the University of Toronto. Upon completion of undergraduate medical training in 1998 he entered residency in the Division of Orthopedics at the University of Toronto. Dr. Burch completed his residency in Toronto in 2004 and completed a Spine Fellowship at UCSF. During his residency Dr. Burch became interested in the treatment of metastatic spine disease and bone tumors. He identified the difficulty with current management methods of metastatic bone disease and conceived the idea of treating these disorders with photodynamic therapy (PDT). Dr. Burch has active collaborative research with the biophotonics group at the University of Toronto and the Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology (CBST) at the University California - Davis. In addition he is actively investigating the role vascular mechanisms play in the etiology of scoliosis. He has been supported in his research by CBST, the Canadian Institute of Health Research Grant and grants from the Canadian Breast Cancer Society.tepe University in Ankara, Turkey. He had further clinical training in Spine Surgery as a clinical and research fellow at UCSF. He joined the UCSF faculty in 2001.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Parnassus Heights:
400 Parnassus Ave., ACC, Third Floor, San Francisco, CA 94143
(866) 81-SPINE (Phone) / (415) 353.4047 (Fax)/p>
Dr. Sibel Demir-Deviren is a physiatrist, a physician specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Physiatrists treat a wide range of problems from sore shoulders to spinal cord injuries with the aim of restoring function. They see patients in all age groups and treat problems that touch upon all the major systems in the body.
Demir-Deviren's clinical interests are musculoskeletal disorders, acute and chronic pain, spine interventional therapy, joint and soft tissue injections and peripheral nerve blocks. Her research interests include assessment of clinical outcomes of spine interventional therapy, intervertebral disc injury mechanisms and opioid-induced hyperalgesia.
Demir-Deviren, an assistant clinical professor in UCSF's Department of Orthopedic Surgery, also completed post-doctoral work in the department and was a research specialist whose topics included clinical outcomes in patients with spine disorders, therapeutic exercise, scoliosis, rheumatoid arthritis and Parkinson's disease.
Associate Professor in Clinical Orthopaedics
Parnassus Heights:
400 Parnassus Ave., ACC, Third Floor, San Francisco, CA 94143
(866) 81-SPINE (Phone) / (415) 353.4047 (Fax)
devirenv@orthosurg.ucsf.edu
Dr. Vedat Deviren specializes in the treatment of spinal disorders in children and adults. He has a strong clinical interest in problems affecting the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine, including deformities such as adult scoliosis, spondylolisthesis, failed back surgeries, degenerative conditions such as herniated discs, spinal stenosis, fractures and tumors.
Dr. Deviren has a strong research interest in spinal disorders to provide and bring his patients the best health care service, form standard care to the most advanced technologies available. His research focused on outcomes of spine surgery, minimally invasive surgery, development of advanced techniques, spinal biomechanics and instrumentation of spine. Dr. Deviren has published numerous articles and abstracts on the subject of spinal disorders and their surgical outcomes.
Deviren is an Associate Professor in Clinical Orthopaedics in UCSF's . He completed his postgraduate theoretical and practical courses in orthopaedics and traumatology from Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey. He had further clinical training in Spine Surgery as a clinical and research fellow at UCSF. He joined the UCSF faculty in 2001.
Associate Professor in Residence
Parnassus Heights:
400 Parnassus Ave., ACC, Third Floor, San Francisco, CA 94143
(866) 81-SPINE (Phone) / (415) 353.4047 (Fax)
Dr. Bobby K-B Tay is based at the Spine Center at UCSF, a collaborative effort with the Department of Neurosurgery. The Spine Center creates a combined service which optimizes treatment of degenerative disorders of the spine, spinal trauma, tumors and infections of the spine.
His clinical interests include degenerative diseases of the cervical and lumbar spine, as well as tumor and fracture work. He has a particularly signficant expertise in minimally invasive surgery of the spine.
After receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, Tay earned his medical degree at the UCSF School of Medicine. He completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at UCSF and then completed a fellowship in spinal surgery at the University of Miami Hospital in Florida.
Chief, Sports Medicine, Assistant Professor in Residence
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353.2808 (Phone) / (415) 885.3838 (Fax)
Dr. C. Benjamin Ma's special interests include sports medicine, shoulder surgery, such as arthroscopy and shoulder replacement, knee surgery and elbow arthroscopy. In addition to his clinical specialties, he is also involved in research on cartilage imaging and dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of ACL injured knees. He has also had multiple publications on the improvement of outcomes following rotator cuff surgeries.
Ma completed his undergraduate education in bioelectrical engineering at Brown University and went on to earn his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University. He completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also completed a one-year musculoskeletal research fellowship. Following his residency, Ma completed a second fellowship in shoulder and knee surgery and sports medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.
Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353.2808 (Phone) / (415) 885.3838 (Fax)
Dr. Christina Allen specializes in the treatment of knee and shoulder injuries, especially those of women athletes. An avid soccer player, she's an expert in treating anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries and shoulder instability. She is an Orthopaedic Team physician for the United States Soccer Women's National teams and has traveled with teams to Brazil, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Germany, and the Netherlands. She recently traveled with the US Soccer team to Russia in August of 2006 for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. She is also an Orthopaedic team physician for Cal Athletics at the University of California at Berkeley, and U.S. Taekwondo. In addition, she has served as a team doctor at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs and at regional and world Olympic qualifying competitions for US soccer and US Taekwondo
Allen earned a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering at Duke University and was chief of biomedical engineering at the Veterans Affairs medical centers in Philadelphia and San Francisco before attending the UCLA School of Medicine.
Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353.2808 (Phone) / (415) 885.3838 (Fax)
Dr. Sibel Demir-Deviren is a physiatrist, a physician specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Physiatrists treat a wide range of problems from sore shoulders to spinal cord injuries with the aim of restoring function. They see patients in all age groups and treat problems that touch upon all the major systems in the body.
A nationally renowned sports medicine expert, Dr. W. Dilworth Cannon is part of the UCSF Sports Medicine Service. Cannon has been involved in numerous committees through the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and the Arthroscopy Association of North America to enhance education opportunities in orthopedic surgery. Currently, he is collaborating on designing a virtual knee with the University of Colorado. This project could save time and funds training doctors, and these savings eventually could be passed along to the patient. Cannon also is interested in researching treatment of articular cartilage injury and disease.
He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his medical training from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. Cannon completed an internship and surgical residency at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York before serving as a research associate at the National Institutes of Health. He then completed his orthopedic residency at New York Orthopedic Hospital before joining UCSF in 1972. Cannon is an active member of many organizations, and serves on the editorial boards of a number of major publications.
Assistant Professor in Residence
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353.2808 (Phone) / (415) 885.3838 (Fax)
Brian Feeley, MD has joined the UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery as an Assistant Professor in Residence. Feeley received his bachelor of science degree from Stanford University and his medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine before serving his residency in the UCLA Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. He completed a sports medicine and shoulder fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, where he also served as an assistant team physician to the New York Giants.
Dr. Feeleyﾒs clinical focus is on the management of athletic injuries to the shoulder, knee, and hip, pediatric sports injuries, and the treatment of shoulder arthritis. He has been trained to use arthroscopic techniques to treat meniscal tears, ligament injuries to the knee, cartilage injuries, shoulder dislocations/instability, labral tears, and rotator cuff tears. He also has an interest in shoulder replacement for arthritis and avascular necrosis of the shoulder. Dr. Feeley has published over 25 peer reviewed publications, as well as many book chapters and review articles. His current research focuses on using computer assisted navigation as a biomechanics tool to better understand how to reconstruct knee and shoulder injuries.
Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery
Mission Bay Orthopaedic Institute
1500 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
(415) 353.2808 (Phone) / (415) 885.3838 (Fax)
Dr. Anthony Luke is board certified in primary care for sports medicine. His special interests include the non-operative management of many sports medicine injuries along with prevention training and counseling. His research interests include epidemiology and injury prevention of high school sports injuries.
Luke completed his undergraduate education, medical degree and family practice residency at the University of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. He completed a primary care sports medicine fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Boston and master's degree in public health at Harvard University.