“HSS has a long history of highly specialized surgeons whose knowledge and experience have provided the very best orthopedic care,” said Bryan T. Kelly, MD, surgeon-in-chief and medical director of HSS. “The appointments of Drs. Lee and Sink will help us continue to elevate our unique services and continue our exclusive focus on the issues that can be debilitating to a person’s movement and livelihood.”

On November 1, Dr. Lee will succeed Edward A. Athanasian, MD and Dr. Sink will succeed Robert L. Buly, MD, both of whom have helped lead and build their Services over the last nine and four plus years, respectively, and will continue their practices as chiefs emeriti. In the new roles, Drs. Lee and Sink will lead highly-integrated multidisciplinary programs focused on the treatment of simple and complex conditions associated with their areas of expertise.

“We have sustained our leadership position in the industry due to our extraordinary physician leaders who are dedicated to advancing the field,” said Louis A. Shapiro, president and CEO of HSS. “We thank Drs. Athanasian and Buly for their commitment to HSS and look forward to expanding our growth even further with Drs. Lee and Sink at the helm.”

Dr. Lee focuses on hand, wrist, and elbow conditions as well as brachial plexus and peripheral nerve problems. A graduate of Duke University School of Medicine, he joined HSS in 2011. Additionally, Dr. Lee is the Research Director for the HSS Center for Brachial Plexus and Traumatic Nerve Injury.

“Our hands are so critical to our daily lives, yet they can often be taken for granted,” said Dr. Lee. “I look forward to leading our amazing team as we help both children and adults overcome bone and soft-tissue conditions in the hand, wrist, forearm, elbow.”

Dr. Sink specializes in the treatment of hip disorders from newborns into adulthood (40’s) including hip dysplasia. He performs hip preservation procedures such as Periacetabular Osteotomies, Surgical Hip Dislocation and open hip reductions in children. A graduate of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dr. Sink joined HSS in 2011.

“When people think of hip pain, they often think hip replacement is the only option,” said Dr. Sink. “However, there is a wide array of treatments focused on joint preservation that can help young, active patients restore a high level of function. We have seen that timely intervention for certain hip conditions could slow or even reverse their progression.”

The Hip Preservation Service is a multidisciplinary service with a range of experts in their respective fields who as a team are committed to patient care, education and research regarding improving pain and function in patients with pre-arthritic hip disorders.

HSS has the lowest readmissions rate in Orthopedics in the U.S. In 2018, HSS provided care to 139,000 patients from all 50 states and 80 countries, and performed more than 32,000 surgical procedures.

NYT spoke to Bryan’s hip surgeon, Edwin Su, MD, at HSS about his recovery and performance, who noted "What Bob is doing is incredible. He really is demonstrating what determination and his hard work can accomplish with a new implant." Dr. Su added, "The things that make Bob Bryan great, you don’t know if you are going to lose that with an artificial joint and surgery. It’s amazing to see he doesn’t seem to have lost any of it and in fact is now able to play without pain."

While Bryan is back to diving for volleys, it has yet to be determined if these rigors will put him at greater risk of requiring follow-up surgery down the road. "We don’t have enough data in terms of how it would hold up to activity such as this," said Dr. Su. "This has been done now for almost two decades, so there are some very active patients out there, and activity doesn’t seem to make it wear out. We’re drawing from the experiences of recreational athletes."

Read the full article at NYTimes.com. This also appeared in the April 3, 2019 print issue.

This year, HSS will co-sponsor the 17th Winter Meeting of the Ranawat Orthopaedic Conference (ROC) "Advances & Techniques in Joint Replacement Surgery & Arthroscopy".

The three-day annual conference will include sports- and arthroplasty-focused educational sessions with topics such as recent developments in robotic surgery, computerized navigation, cementless total knee replacement, and unicondylar knee replacement.

"HSS is proud to co-sponsor the Ranawat Orthopaedic Conference, an impactful educational conference that advances the field of musculoskeletal medicine through knowledge-sharing and education," said Laura Robbins, DSW, senior vice president, HSS Education Institute.

The conference is presented by HSS and the Ranawat Orthopaedic Center in New York, NY, and is co-directed by HSS hip and knee surgeons, Chitranjan S. Ranawat, MD, and Amar S. Ranawat, MD; and HSS sports medicine surgeon, Anil S. Ranawat, MD.

This year’s conference will include presentations and clinical case discussions by Drs. Anil and Amar Ranawat, HSS hip and knee surgeon, Jose A. Rodriguez, MD; HSS sports medicine surgeon, Joshua S. Dines, MD; and HSS anesthesiologist David H. Kim, MD.

The conference will take place on February 21-23, 2019 at Hotel Pullman, Aerocity in New Delhi, India and will also be live streamed.

For the past 50 years, Dr. Chitranjan S. Ranawat has performed hip and knee replacements at HSS, dedicating his professional life to the education and training of residents, fellows, and surgeons. He developed the first total knee replacement prosthesis in the early 1970s and has played an integral role in solidifying HSS as an innovator of joint replacements. In 2016, HSS presented Dr. Ranawat with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

"The Ranawats are honored and excited to continue our family’s tradition of teaching surgical education in the latest trends and techniques in arthroplasty and sports medicine in India," said Dr. Anil Ranawat. "We now have a partner in HSS to continue our tradition so we can advance as global leaders in surgical education. As Indian-Americans it gives us great pride to see India Rising."

The Ranawat Orthopaedic Research Foundation has supported orthopaedic research and education in the United States and Asia. With Dr. Ranawat as chairman, the foundation collaborates with pioneers around the world to promote the goal of training orthopaedic surgeons in joint reconstruction surgery and delivering high-value care to patients.

Perrotta reports that a hip resurfacing by Edwin P. Su, MD, hip and knee surgeon at HSS, saved American tennis doubles star Bob Bryan's career. Bryan underwent surgery in August 2018 and played at the Australian Open five months later.

"He blew the doors off anything I thought possible," says Dr. Su.

"I have tons of people wanting to do CrossFit or boot camp exercises, or run a tough mudder, or do triathlons," Dr. Su explains. "These are all potential candidates for the procedure." 

The article references that Bryan originally went to Bryan T. Kelly, MD, chief of HSS sports, who let him know he had little to no cartilage remaining. 

A tennis enthusiast, Dr. Su grew up in Long Island playing table tennis before switching to regular tennis. Yet he always knew he wanted to become a physician like his own father. During his medical training at HSS, Dr. Su learned about resurfacing hips and now performs the surgery about 350 times each year. 

Read the full article at WSJ.com.

Danyal H. Nawabi, MD, FRCS, sports medicine surgeon at HSS, who did not treat Flacco, explains there are two main reasons not to play before fully recovering.

First, a player should not have lingering discomfort. "If you get them back to 80, 90 percent, they're playing at 80, 90 percent the whole season with a little bit of a nick, which then predisposes you to further injury because you're not activating all your muscles and using your joint as it should be used," says Dr. Nawabi.

Secondly, it's important to prevent longer-term damage by allowing a player to play prematurely. "And the key thing with the hip joint is degenerative joint disease, subjecting that hip to becoming arthritic, which unfortunately we see more and more now in younger patients," states Dr. Nawabi.

Read the full article at BaltimoreSun.com. This also appeared in the December 1, 2018 print edition.

According to the article, virtual reality is emerging as a high-tech solution to train medical residents.

Dr. Bostrom said that VR simulations could prove particularly useful in many procedure-based areas of medicine, such as anesthesia, to introduce new physicians to the steps needed to complete a task.

"Certain industries such as aviation have been doing simulation for many decades. It's been relatively late in coming into medicine and surgery," Dr. Bostrom added.

The article reported that HSS residents have been operating on cadavers and artificial bones for practice for years.  

"Cadavers are still the gold standard of how to teach young surgeons," noted Dr. Ranawat.

"Right now [VR] is just another instrument or tool to give younger residents—not older residents because older residents are going to use more cadaver and live surgery—the basic surgical skill sets, such as understanding anatomy, tactile feel and understanding the steps of the procedure," explained Dr. Ranawat.

"The fact that I can come in here and it will walk me through it step by step with the instrumentation, it's positive," said Dr. Elbuluk, a first-year resident, who is able to use this tool to get experience before going into the operating room.

Older residents, such as Dr. Kahlenberg, a fourth-year resident, noted that VR tools do not yet have the capability to vary joints such as the knee.  

"Every human knee is a little bit different, and there's variability in the soft tissues and the feel of the soft tissue," said Dr. Kahlenberg. "I think it has potential to be helpful in the future, but it has a long way to go before it becomes a realistic training tool."

Crain's also reported on another simulator tool in the Bioskills lab that helps train residents on arthroscopy specifically.

Read the full article at Crainsnewyork.com. This also appeared in the August 20, 2018 print issue as well as Crain's Health Pulse and Crain's Morning 10.

Additional Coverage: ModernHealthcare.com 

According to the article, Big Show underwent a hip resurfacing surgery performed by HSS hip and knee surgeon Edwin P. Su, MD, last year.

Read the full article at espn.com.

NY1 Noticias

According to the segment, Nayelis experienced difficulty walking since birth and underwent nine failed surgeries in the DR. After coming to New York three months ago, Nayelis had both hips replaced by HSS hip and knee surgeon Edwin P. Su, MD.

"We had to perform a complicated replacement surgery of both hips. It was very difficult because she had scar tissue from all the previous surgeries and because her legs were shorter, so we lengthened them and we put it in its proper place," said Dr. Su.

"It was always a constant suffering since I was born and that is improving," said Nayelis.

"I'm excited because I do not believe it, I'm surprised because I thought she was never going to walk," said Nayelis' mother, Marisol Veras Rodriguez.

Once she completes physical therapy, Nayelis said that she hopes to travel the world.

Watch the full segment at ny1noticias.com [in Spanish]. This also aired during the July 17, 2018 broadcast.

Additional Coverage:

• Univision New York: Joven dominicana consigue caminar gracias a una donación anónima que pagó la costosa operación

According to the article, there are a growing number of Peruvian patients who have traveled to HSS for care.

"I am involved in clinical research that analyzes the results after hip preservation surgery and hip arthroscopy. This research allows a better understanding of the diagnosis and treatment of athletic hip injuries. Caring for athletes and helping them return to sports after an injury is a great satisfaction," said Dr. Coleman.

Dr. Press noted that the most common injuries treated at HSS are related to the knee, shoulder and spine.

"In the last 150 years, we have established the best surgical programs and services available in the world. Our biggest challenge in our area of ​​physiatry is to build the medical and non-surgical components of this institution at the same level as the surgical services," Dr. Press added.

This article originally appeared at businessempresarial.com.pe.

"When determining the best treatment option, the factors that are considered are age, sex, and whether or not there is cartilage loss within the joint. In cases where there is significant cartilage loss, then total joint replacement is the best treatment option. However, among younger patients whose cartilage is intact, joint preservation may be the best option," said Dr. Su.

He noted that joint preservation typically helps younger patients with minimal arthritis in order to prevent them from needing a joint replacement in the future. However, if there is pre-existing arthritis, the results may not be completely successful.

"For patients with chronic pain in their hip joints, the best treatment strategy can be determined by an experienced orthopedic doctor who listens to the problem, examines the patient and obtains the proper imaging studies," added Dr. Su.

This article appeared in the May 2018 print issue.