Foot and Ankle Service The Foot and Ankle Service is the largest program of its kind in the United States. Its surgeons have expertise in deformity correction, trauma, sports injuries and arthritis. CHIEF Matthew M. Roberts, MD
Clinical Highlights The Foot and Ankle Service is composed of nine orthopaedic surgeons and one nonoperative podiatrist. In addition to practicing general foot and ankle medicine, our members have unique areas of expertise, such as ankle replacement, ankle ligament reconstructions using hamstring autografts, talus osteochondral defect repairs, complex flatfoot and forefoot reconstructions, severe trauma and revision Achilles repair. Constantine Demetracopoulos, MD, became the Service’s Epic Service Champion. He helped create a user- friendly portal for patients and a more efficient way for colleagues to navigate the software. We are planning to expand our outpatient clinical space on HSS’s main campus and at the HSS Stamford Outpatient Center. After serving as an Associate Attending for 47 years, Walther Bohne, MD, retired on June 8, 2015.
Research Initiatives Under the leadership of Scott Ellis, MD, and Jonathan Deland, MD, our Service revamped our patient outcomes database, known as the Rose Registry,
which is generously supported by the Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation. We converted our record database to REDCap, reducing our annual registry operating costs, and implemented NIH PROMIS CATs, a nationally accepted, more accurate outcomes instrument that takes less time for patients to complete. Our Service presented data comparing CATs to the Foot and Ankle Outcome Score at the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) Specialty Day in Orlando, FL. The improved registry allows the Service to focus on operative patients. With the help of our research assistants, our Service developed a workflow to capture surgeon-specific data from the OR after each case. The registry also enables our group to collaborate with AOFAS’s Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Research Network (OFAR) to determine the best practices for data gathering and outcomes reporting. Our Service finalized the development of and validated the instrumentation of a state-of-the-art Foot and Ankle Gait Simulator, which was made possible by Herbert Black and another generous donor, who are supporting this and other innovative projects. In 2015, our
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Matthew M. Roberts, MD; Jonathan T. Deland, MD; Constantine A. Demetracopoulos, MD; Mark C. Drakos, MD; Andrew J. Elliott, MD; Scott J. Ellis, MD; John G. Kennedy, MD; David S. Levine, MD; Martin J. O'Malley, MD; Harvey Strauss, DPM, FACFAS
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