Department of Orthopaedics

Adult Foot and Ankle

The Adult Foot and Ankle Service provides care and treatment for patients with arthritis, fractures, infections, diabetic foot ulcers, and other problems affecting the foot. The special expertise of the faculty includes reconstruction of foot deformities including bunion deformity, deformities of the mid-foot and hind-foot, complex fractures of the foot and ankle, and total ankle replacement.

Ned Amendola, MD
Charles L. Saltzman, MD

Adult Reconstructive and Joint Replacement Surgery

The departmental hip and knee reconstructive service provides care for patients with diseases of the hip and knee. The faculty members have special expertise in the treatment of advanced arthritis and other complex disorders of the hip and knee.

John J. Callaghan, MD
Charles R. Clark, MD
J. Lawrence Marsh, MD
Michael O'Rourke, MD
Jill Noack. PA-C

Children's Orthopaedics

The Children's Orthopaedic Service provides a full range of services for children with injuries, deformities, and developmental abnormalities in the musculoskeletal system. The physicians have extensive long-term experience in treatment of complex disorders such as clubfoot, scoliosis, and developmental dysplasia of the hip.

Frederick R. Dietz, MD
Amanda Kleese, NP
Jose A. Morcuende, MD, PhD
Ignacio V. Ponseti, MD
Stuart L. Weinstein, MD

Hand and Microsurgery, Extremity Plastic Surgery

The Hand and Microsurgery, Upper Extremity Plastic Surgery Service provides comprehensive care for patients with injuries, deformities, and acquired conditions affecting the upper extremity. These include congenital abnormalities, arthritis, peripheral nerve problems, wrist disorders, burns, and other injuries and conditions affecting the hand and upper extremity.

Brian D. Adams, MD
Jennifer Jungen, PA-C
Curtis M. Steyers, MD

Musculoskeletal Oncology

The Musculoskeletal Oncology Service provides care and treatment for patients ranging in age from infants to the elderly with primary benign and malignant tumors of the bones, muscles and other musculoskeletal tissues. In addition, this service provides care and treatment for patients with metastatic tumors involving the musculoskeletal system.

Joseph A. Buckwalter, MD
Jose A. Morcuende, MD, PhD

Musculoskeletal Trauma

The Trauma Service provides comprehensive care of patients with all types of injuries to the musculoskeletal system including bones, joints, tendons, ligaments, and nerves.

Joseph A. Buckwalter, MD
J. Lawrence Marsh, MD
Todd. O. McKinley, MD
James V. Nepola, MD

Neuromuscular, Rehabilitation and Amputees

The services provides care for patients with a wide variety of neuromuscular diseases including cerebral palsy, spina bifida, traumatic injuries to the peripheral nervous system and spinal cord. This service also provides care for patients with upper and lower extremity amputations.

Reginald R. Cooper, MD
Mary Cowsky, PA-C
Frederick R. Deitz, MD
Jose A. Morcuende, MD, PhD
Stuart L. Weinstein, MD

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

The Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Service provides diagnostic and therapeutic options for those patients with non-surgical musculoskeletal injuries or illnesses.  The faculty see patients with chronic musculoskeletal back and neck pain, knee pain, and osteoarthritis and offer both diagnostic testing as well as therapeutic spinal or peripheral joint injections.  The faculty also serve as Medical Director for the UIHC Department of Rehabilitation Therapies and our Department's Spine Rehabilitation Program.  We provide inpatient physical medicine & rehabilitation services include staffing the Trauma Rehabilitation Consultation service and providing rehabilitation consultations for the Pediatric Neuro-Trauma Rehabilitation Unit at the Center for Disabilities & Development.

Joseph Chen, MD
Neil Segal, MD

Shoulder Reconstruction

The Shoulder Reconstruction Service provides care for patients with diseases and injuries of the shoulder including disorders of the rotator cuff and arthritis. Faculty members have special expertise in rotator cuff reconstruction and shoulder replacement.

Brian D. Adams, MD
John P. Albright, MD
James V. Nepola, MD
Brian R. Wolf, MD

Spinal Deformity

The Spine Deformity Service provides operative and non-operative treatment for patients with deformities of the spine including scoliosis, kyphosis, and paralytic deformities.

Stuart L. Weinstein, MD

Spine Surgery

The Spine Surgery Service provides care and treatment for patients with arthritic, traumatic, infectious, or neoplastic disorders of the spine extending from the cervical spine to the pelvis.

Charles R. Clark, MD
Ernest M. Found, MD
Sergio A. Mendoza, MD

Sports Medicine

The Sports Medicine Service provides care and treatment for individuals participating in recreational and competitive athletics.

John P. Albright, MD
Annunziato Amendola, MD
Joseph A. Buckwalter, MD
Jessica Fisher, PA-C
Andrea Wilson, PA-C
Brian R. Wolf, MD

UI Sports Medicine