surgical procedure on the affected knee. The modest results demonstrate the challenging clinical problem of discoid lateral meniscus in young patients and illustrate the need for new solutions for meniscus repair or replacement. “Long Term Follow Up of Pediatric ACL Reconstruction in New York State: High Rates of Subsequent ACL Reconstruction” was the 2015 High Scoring Poster at the Canadian Orthopaedic Association/ Canadian Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting. Pediatric orthopaedic surgeon Emily Dodwell, MD, was one of the authors. In this study, HSS researchers attempted to determine the rate of revision procedures and non-ACL knee surgeries in children who already had undergone ACL reconstruction in New York State. They found that 8.2 percent of patients underwent revision ACL reconstruction and 14 percent had subsequent non-ACL knee surgery.
Education Updates In 2015, HSS residents ranked the Pediatric Orthopaedic Service the #1 Educational Service at HSS. This is an honor, since HSS’s orthopaedic residency program has been ranked #1 in both reputation and research output for two years in a row by Doximity, the professional healthcare network.
3,074 SURGERIES*
22,282 PATIENT VISITS**
We were proud to welcome back Stephen W. Burke, MD, the former Chief of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery at HSS, as our 2015 Visiting Professor. In 2016, we hosted Mininder Kocher, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at Boston Children’s Hospital. In 2015, there were 95 presentations and instructional course lectures at major national and international conferences. Five members of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Service were invited to serve as faculty for instructional course lectures at national conferences and as faculty for the International Pediatric Symposium. They were Dr. Dodwell; Dr. Green; Catherine Raggio, MD; Ernest Sink, MD; and Roger Widmann, MD.
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37 STUDIES PUBLISHED
* Surgical volume is inclusive of procedures performed at NewYork-Presbyterian/ Weill Cornell Medical Center and NewYorkPresbyterian Queens. ** Patient visits for the year excluded those to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Queens. ll data is from 2015 unless otherwise A specified.
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