Orthopaedic Sports Medicine at NYUHJD

Sports Medicine at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases incorporates the clinical, educational, and investigational aspects of athletic injuries to treat athletes playing at the high school, college and professional levels, as well as recreational athletes from every age group.

Our orthopaedists perform over 3,000 procedures annually, including arthroscopic procedures on the knee, shoulder, elbow, and ankle. Over 500 of these procedures involve reconstruction of knee ligaments, the vast majority utilizing state-of-the-art arthroscopic techniques. Physicians also perform the most recently developed meniscal and cartilage reconstruction procedures.

While the volume of surgery performed by the staff is impressive, it is important to realize that the majority of sports injuries are treated non-operatively with an emphasis placed on prevention. Rehabilitation of sports-related injuries at NYU HJD incorporates proper education and training to prevent such injuries in the first place.

Sports Medicine physicians cover numerous athletic events, including the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament, New York Public School Athletic League games, Catholic High Schools Athletic Association games, New York University athletic teams, and the Brooklyn Cyclones AAA minor league baseball team. NYU HJD also sponsors a free athletic trainer program for students from New York City area high schools.

Attending Staff

Orrin Sherman, MD - Chief	Andrew Rokito, MD - Associate Chief
Andrew Bazos, MD	Joseph Bosco, MD
L. Paul Brief, MD	Moira Davenport, MD
Colleen Fay, MD	Ivan Fernandez-Madrid, MD
Ramesh Gidumal, MD	Laith Jazrawi, MD
Robert Meislin, MD	David Menche, MD
David Pereira, MD	Mark Pitman, MD
Donald Rose, MD	Jeffrey Rosen, MD
Marc Silverman, MD	Stuart Springer, MD
Drew A. Stein, MD	David Weiss, MD

For Residents and Fellows

The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases offers a residency in Sports Medicine Orthopaedics and two fellowship positions.

Orthopaedic Research

One research focus of the Sports Medicine Division is chondrocyte transplantation. The original research in this area was performed at Hospital for Joint Diseases; the clinical studies performed in Sweden and reported in the New England Journal of Medicine were a direct outgrowth of these studies, and the Division continues to perform chondrocyte transplantation.

Other research initiatives include the study of the ability of meniscus injury repair to preclude development of posttraumatic arthritis, electrodiagnostic studies of muscle activity during exercise and after injury, and approaches to anterior cruciate ligament injuries and reconstruction.

More about Sports Medicine research at New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases.