Fellowships

Adult Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship

The purpose of the fellowship is to provide comprehensive training in all aspects of adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery. Emphasis is given to the fundamentals of the surgical principles, from primary cases to the most complex revision problems.All major joints are included, with the exception of the hand and wrist.

Fellows actively participate in all aspects of patient care, ranging from preoperative planning to postoperative follow-up. In addition, they are included in formal weekly teaching conferences and participate in the training of our orthopaedic residents.

Research is encouraged and considered an important aspect of the training program. Facilities, personnel, and time are available for meaningful clinical and laboratory research projects. We offer training in computer assisted navigation, pelvic and femoral osteotomies, unicompartmental knee replacement, hip and knee arthroscopy, resurfacing, knee osteotomies and minimally invasive total joint replacement.

• Download an application for the James A. Dickson Fellowship in Adult Reconstructive Surgery.

More Information

• Contact: Wael K. Barsoum, MD, Program Director
• Phone: 216.444.7515

Foot & Ankle Fellowship

The goal of the Foot & Ankle Fellowship is to provide an extensive study of the evaluation and treatment of foot and ankle disorders. The Fellow is an integral part of the Foot & Ankle Service and leaves with an in-depth understanding of the nonoperative and operative approaches to the foot and ankle. The Fellow is encouraged to become involved in research and has both clinical and basic science resources available. The Fellow participates in the foot and ankle teaching conferences. The teaching schedule consists of indications conference, journal club and resident foot and ankle lectures.

This fellowship deals primarily with adult foot and ankle but experience with pediatric foot and ankle is available to the individual fellow, if desired.

This fellowship participates in the Match program.

Duration: 1 year (August 1 to July 31)
Deadline: December 1
Stipend: $53,848/plus benefits
Location: Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland Clinic Foot & Ankle Fellowship

• Brian G. Donley, MD
• James J. Sferra, MD

More Information

• Contact: James J. Sferra, MD, Program Director
• Phone: 216.445.8507

Cleveland Combined Hand Fellowship

The ACGME-accredited Cleveland Combined Hand Fellowship was created over 25 years ago. This one-year fellowship is a joint venture of two longstanding Cleveland institutions: Cleveland Clinic and MetroHealth Medical Center and typically accepts 2-3 fellows per year. Both teaching sites are dynamic academic centers, dedicated to education, research and patient care. Metro Health Medical Center is a Class I trauma center and Cleveland Clinic is an international referral center. Through these two institutions, there is large and varied clinical exposure.

Fellows spend six months at each of the two institutions, working with both orthopaedic and plastic surgeons. They are free to move between institutions during their six month sessions in order to participate in rare or particularly interesting cases or conferences. There is elective time for research, other elbow/hand rotations, or shoulder with world-renowned shoulder surgeons.

Fellow on-call schedule is at a Junior Staff Level with in-house resident support and faculty supervision. The program provides exposure to all aspects of hand and upper extremity surgery, including arthritis, tumor, congenital deformities, microsurgery and trauma reconstruction. Fellows participate in a one-week microvascular laboratory course and have laboratory availability to maintain their skills. There are ample opportunities for anatomical dissection laboratory research. With protected-time, Fellows complete either a clinical or laboratory project by the end of the fellowship year.

Cirriculum

Download our Microsurgery Brochure

Anatomy Sessions Hand/Elbow 2012-2013»

Session 1: Completed

• 1. Finger surgical approaches: Brunner/Mid-axial
• 2. Flexor tendon repairs Zone I&II

Session 2: November 13, 2012 (w/ resident AD)

• 1. Strategies for distal radius ORIF
• 2. Volar/Dorsal/Radial approaches

Session 3: December 5, 2012 – BioPro

• 1. SLAC wrist procedures
• 2. 4-corner fusion, capitolunate fusion

Session 4: January 2, 2013 - Arthrex

• 1. Lateral approach to elbow
• 2. Medial over the top approach to elbow
• 3. LUCL reconstruction

Session 5: February 6, 2013 – Smith and Nephew

• 1. Wrist Arthroscopy

Session 6: March 6, 2013

• 1. Elbow Arthroscopy

Session 7: April 3, 2013 - Synthes

• 1. Humerus fxs distal/supracondylar
• 2. Radial nerve exposure

Session 8: May 1, 2013 – Biomet

• 1. TEA

Session 9: June 5, 2013 – Mosher Medical

• 1. Medial elbow stuff – coronoid exposure/orif, UCL reconstruction

Session 10: July 3rd, 2013 – Dr. Hoyen

• 1. Nerve Transfer Lab

Selected Topics»

All talks take place between 6:45 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.

• 03/11/2013 Vascular I (Thoracic Outlet Syndrome); Basic Science - Vascular
  Dr. Steven Maschke, Dr. Erica Taylor
• 03/18/2013 Vascular II (Arterial Insufficiency; Amputation)
  Dr. Michael Matthew, Dr. Nathan Everding
• 03/26/2013 Small Joint Injuries I & II
  Dr. Michael Keith, Dr. Erica Taylor
• 04/08/2013 Small Joint Injuries III & IV
  Dr. David Shapiro, Dr. Nathan Everding
• 04/16/2013 Ulnar Nerve Compression/Elbow; Basic Science - Peripheral Nerve
  Dr. Harry Hoyen, Dr. Surbhi Panchal
• 04/23/2013 Ulnar Nerve Compression/Wrist; Radial Nerve Compression
  Dr. Michael Keith, Dr. Nathan Everding
• 04/30/2013 Proximal Row Carpectomy/Wrist Fusion
  Dr. Todd Bafus, Dr. Surbhi Panchal
• 05/06/2013 Lateral Epicondylitis/DeQuervain's/Trigger Finger
  Dr. Keith Malone, Dr. Nathan Everding
• 05/13/2013 Replantation
  Dr. Mark Hendrickson, Dr. Surbhi Panchal
• 05/21/2013 RA/Osteoarthritis; Basic Science - Immunologic & Metabolic Disease
  Dr. Harry Hoyen, Dr. Nathan Everding
• 05/28/2013 Kienbock
  Dr. William Seitz, Dr. Surbhi Panchal
• 06/10/2013 Ulnar Nerve Palsy - Reconstruction
  Dr. Michael Matthew, Dr. Erica Taylor
• 06/17/2013 Radial Nerve Reconstruction
  Dr. Keith Malone, Dr. Surbhi Panchal
• 06/24/2013 Median Nerve Palsy - Reconstruction
  Dr. Peter Evans, Dr. Erica Taylor
• 07/08/2013 Cerebral Palsy; Basic Science - Muscle
  Dr. Peter Evans, Dr. Surbhi Panchal
• 07/16/2013 Swan Neck/Boutonnierre; Ext Tendon Subluxation, Intrinsics
  Dr. Michael Keith, Dr. Erica Taylor
• 07/22/2013 Saddle Deformity, Intersection Syndrome, Sesamoid Arthritis, Pisiform Pain, Linberg
  Dr. Peter Evans, Dr. Surbhi Panchal

Staff»

Peter J. Evans, MD, PhD
Specialty interests: Hand, elbow and shoulder surgery, including joint replacement; arthroscopy; tendon and nerve repair; upper extremity sports related injuries

Blaine Todd Bafus, MD
Specialty interests: Shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand fractures and reconstruction; tendon and nerve repair; upper extremity injuries or degenerative conditions in veterans

Avrum I. Froimson, MD
Specialty interests: Needle aponeurotomy for Dupuytren's disease and trigger finger

Thomas Graham, MD
Specialty interests: Complex reconstructive challenges of the hand and wrist; sophisticated elbow surgery (instability, stiffness, replacement); surgical care of children with congenital hand differences; care of the athlete's hand and wrist

Mark Henderickson, MD
Specialty interests: Hand and wrist surgery; congenital hand surgery; microsurgery; nerve surgery; peripheral vascular surgery; melanoma; aesthetic surgery.

Harry A. Hoyen, MD
Specialty interests: Upper extremity disorders from shoulder to hand problems, including care of traumatic, arthritic, sport, work-related and pediatric problems; neuromuscular disorders with research in the treatment of spinal cord injuries, peripheral nerve disorders, and nerve regeneration strategies.

Michael W. Keith, MD
Specialty interests: Research interests include surgery of the hand and spinal cord injury patients; upper extremity prosthetics and functional neuromuscular stimulation; reconstruction; recovery from forms of paralysis

Kevin J. Malone, MD
Specialty interests: Traumatic and post-traumatic conditions of the shoulder, elbow, forearm, wrist and hand; microsurgery; peripheral nerve surgery

Steven Maschke, MD
Specialty interests: Hand, wrist, elbow, and peripheral nerve surgery, including arthroscopy; tendon-ligament injuries; joint replacement and reconstruction; fractures; congenital deformities

Michael Matthew, MD
Specialty interests: Reconstructive challenges of the hand and wrist; congenital hand surgery; sports related hand and wrist injuries; peripheral nerve surgery to include compression neuropathies and brachial plexus injuries; soft tissue coverage of the hand; Dupuytren's surgery and management; surgical care of osteoarthritis and inflammatory arthritis; toe to thumb transfer; finger reconstruction

William Seitz, Jr., MD
Specialty interests: Management of all upper extremity problems, including the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand, from congenital, arthritis, traumatic, neurologic and acquired conditions

David Shapiro, MD
Specialty interests: Surgical management of hand and wrist disorders, including arthritis, trauma, and reconstruction following bone, tendon, nerve, and joint injuries

Alumni»

2012

• B. Todd Bafus, MD (Cleveland, OH)
• Noah Raizman, MD (Washington, DC)

2011

• Khurram Pervaiz, MD (Tampa, FL)
• Ngozi Mogekwv, MD (Baltimore, MD)

2010

• Francisco Rubio, MD (Miami, FL)
• Daniel Penello, MD (Largo, FL)

2009

• Michael Darowish, MD (Hummelstown, PA)
• Shafic Sraj, MD
  (Weston, WV)

2008

• Brent Bickel, MD (Columbus, OH)
• Joy Sharma, MD (Richmond, VA)

2007

• Aaron Anderson, MD (Chesterton, IN)
• Joe Robison, MD (Celebration, FL)

1980 - 2006 Alumni

2-Year Hand and Upper Limb Fellowship (HULF)

The fellowship provides a balanced clinical experience in all aspects of hand and upper extremity surgery in an academic environment broadening the Fellow’s analytical skills, surgical judgment, and research creativity. The Fellow’s weekly schedule is balanced between operative experience, outpatient clinics, selected reading sessions, didactic basic science teaching, and independent research.

Fellows spend six months at each of two institutions, Cleveland Clinic (CC) or MetroHealth Medical Center (MHMC), working with both orthopaedic (Drs. Peter Evans, Avrum Froimson, Harry Hoyen, Michael Keith, Kevin Malone, Steven Maschke, William Seitz, and David Shapiro) and plastic surgeons (Drs. Steve Bernard, Mark Hendrickson, Rick Jordan, Bram Kaufman, and Michael Matthew). They are free to move between institutions in order to participate in rare or particularly interesting cases or conferences.

The fellows may choose a 1 month elective during the year for research, other elbow/hand rotations, microsurgery rotations or shoulder with world-renowned shoulder surgeons (Drs. Iannotti, Ricchetti, Miniaci, and Schickendantz).

Rotations are 3 months in duration and the CC rotation is subdivided into 2 services presently and the fellow spends 6 weeks on each service during the 3 month block. Dr. Shapiro will be incorporated this fall into Team 2. Below is an example of the staff schedule at CC and demonstrates the mix between clinics and OR on a weekly basis. The Hand Fellow is responsible for designing their weekly clinical experience and that of the resident and submits their plan on the Friday prior to the following week for the Program Director to approve. A balance of 3 days of OR, 1.5 days of clinic and 0.5 days of research is required weekly.

The program provides exposure to all aspects of hand and upper extremity surgery, including arthritis, tumor, congenital deformities, microsurgery, and trauma reconstruction.

Fellows participate in a one-week microvascular laboratory course and have laboratory availability to maintain their skills. There are ample opportunities for anatomical dissection and laboratory research with protected-time.

Fellow on-call schedule is at a Junior Staff Level with in-house resident support and faculty supervision. At MHMC the fellow has a unique opportunity to run their own half-day clinic with staff support available in an adjacent clinic.

For us the weekly integration with the residency and existing hand and shoulder fellowship are paramount. We strive to maximize the experience of each trainee and weekly schedules allow for the best balance of a dynamic schedule of staff OR/clinic/time away calendar. We feel that the staff:fellow ratio with 3 hand fellows, 1 shoulder fellow and 1 HULF remains excellent.

The proposed rotations integrating a hand fellow doing an extra year of training in the HULF (for example below for a year of shoulder/elbow training) with the existing 1 shoulder fellow-1 resident shoulder service and future 2 hand fellow-2 resident hand service at CC and 1 hand fellow-1 resident hand service at MHMC.

The 2-year overview of a proposed training schedule for a fellow choosing a second year with a shoulder/elbow emphasis is below. We feel that our facility could alternatively offer microsurgical emphasis utilizing the full complement of plastic surgeons at CC and more time with the hand/plastics surgeons at MHMC.

The rotations listed as Hand are fully integrated Upper Extremity experiences as can be seen by the clinical focus of the faculty as seen above.

Shoulder Faculty

While we have 11 surgeons that perform shoulder surgery at CC and 2 surgeons at MHMC for the shoulder portion of the fellowship, we would only include our 2 shoulder-only (Iannotti, Ricchetti) surgeons (currently interviewing to hire a third shoulder-only surgeon), two of our sports medicine surgeons with significant arthroplasty experience (Miniaci, Schickendantz), and two of the hand faculty (Evans, Seitz) (currently interviewing to hire a third hand surgeon).

• Peter Evans, MD, PhD;
  • Elective arthroscopic/open rotator cuff repair & instability, tendon transfer, complex arthroplasty
• Joseph Iannotti, MD, PhD
  • Elective arthroscopic/open rotator cuff repair & instability, tendon transfer, complex arthroplasty
• Anthony Miniaci, MD
  • Elective arthroscopic/open rotator cuff repair & instability, tendon transfer, complex arthroplasty
• Eric Ricchetti, MD
  • Elective arthroscopic/open rotator cuff repair & instability, tendon transfer, complex arthroplasty
• William Seitz, MD
  • Elective arthroscopic/open rotator cuff repair & instability, complex arthroplasty
• Mark Schickendantz, MD
  • Arthroscopic/open rotator cuff repair & instability, primary arthroplasty

Over a two year period a HULF graduate from our institution with a second year focus in shoulder/elbow surgery would likely experience an equivalent volume of shoulder surgery as many fellows do in a dedicated one-year shoulder fellowship.

Pediatric Orthopaedics & Scoliosis Fellowship

The Pediatric Orthopaedics and Scoliosis Surgery Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Children's is a one year program designed to provide a wide experience in children's orthopaedics and the treatment of spine deformity in the child and adolescent. The fellow will rotate with five staff pediatric orthopaedic surgeons at Cleveland Clinic Children's. General pediatric orthopaedics, spine deformity, complex hip pathology, lower extremity deformity correction, pediatric foot disorders, sports medicine, arthroscopy, care of the child with neuromuscular disease and trauma are among the entities to which the fellow will be exposed.

The fellow is expected to be actively involved in resident and medical student education. This includes twice weekly didactic conferences, clinics and the operating room. The fellow will be expected to take pediatric trauma call and be proficient in the care of children's musculoskeletal injuries. He/She will have his/her own outpatient clinic for trauma follow-up care as well. The fellow will function as an integral part of the pediatric orthopaedic health care team.

Dedicated time will be provided each week for scholarly activities. The fellow is expected to engage in original research activity, and ultimately produce at least one manuscript of publication quality during the fellowship year.

Interviews will be conducted on an individualized basis. This fellowship participates in the Match program. Inquiries and additional information can be obtained through the fellowship director's office.

Duration: 1 year (August 1 to July 31)
Deadline: December 31
Stipend: $58,188 plus benefits
Location: Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland Clinic Children's

Ryan C. Goodwin, MD
Program Director
Cleveland Clinic
9500 Euclid Ave./Desk A41
Cleveland, OH 44195
Phone: 216.444.4024
Fax: 216.445.3585

Shoulder Fellowship

This fellowship offers unique opportunities to the aspiring shoulder surgeon. Emphasis is divided between clinical patient care and research investigation. The preferred applicant will spend twelve months in a clinically-oriented program working on the services of Drs. Iannotti, Ricchetti and Evans, whose practice involves pathology and surgery of the shoulder. Time will also be spent with Dr. Mark Schickendantz, one of our sports medicine shoulder specialists.

The Shoulder Fellow will be given the responsibilities of an associate staff member and will manage his/her own clinical practice with teaching oversight provided by the fellowship faculty. Additionally, we offer the opportunity and encourage the Fellow to spend a second year in the laboratories involved in basic science or clinical investigation, though a second year is not required.

Although several funded projects related to the shoulder and upper extremity will be available to the Fellow, the applicant is encouraged to initiate a project of his/her own design. Lastly, we view teaching as a foundational requirement of our Fellow. The transfer of orthopaedic knowledge and skills to our resident staff is one of our most important missions. The Shoulder Fellow will be actively involved in our resident education programs both didactically and clinically.

This program is part of the ASES Fellow selection process. Interviews will be conducted in November and the selection will be made through the National Shoulder match process.

This fellowship participates in the Match program.

Duration: 1 year (August 1 to July 31)
Deadline: October 1
Stipend: $53,848/plus benefits
Location: Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland Clinic Shoulder & Elbow Fellowship

Eric Ricchetti, MD
Program Director
Cleveland Clinic
9500 Euclid Ave./A40
Cleveland, Ohio 44119
Phone: 216.445.6915
Fax: 216.445.3694

Spine Surgery Fellowship

Cleveland Clinic Center for Spine Health offers one-year fellowships to qualified students. Each fellow participates in basic science and/or clinical research, and is expected to complete two research projects in the course of the year. The fellows participate in resident education through both didactic and clinical teaching.

Trainees will be expected to develop and complete a clinical research project, working with a faculty advisor. They also will be encouraged to author or co-author at least one paper during their fellowships to be published in an indexed medical journal.

More Information

• Contact: Thomas Mroz, MD, Program Director
• Phone: 216.444.5670
• For more information please visit the Spine Fellowship website

Orthopaedics Sports Medicine Fellowship

The goal of Cleveland Clinic's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowship is to develop in the full-trained orthopaedic surgeon special diagnostic management and research skills, both surgical and non-surgical, that are peculiar to athletic medicine and trauma.

Our Sports Medicine Clinic is involved in the care of high school, college, recreational, and professional athletes. We provide team physician coverage for area high school teams as well as for Cleveland State University (Division I), John Carroll University (Division III), Baldwin Wallace, Oberlin, and Cleveland Cavaliers (NBA), the Cleveland Browns (NFL), and the Cleveland Indians (MLB).

In addition to developing clinical and surgical skills, the Fellow is expected to assume a teaching role with our orthopaedic residents.The Fellow is expected to develop an understanding of physiology as it relates to athletes and is expected to complete a research project of his/her choice, in either basic or clinical science, to be prepared for publication upon completion of the fellowship.

Upon completion of the fellowship, the Fellow becomes a member of the alumni group, The Warthog Society.

Cleveland Clinic's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowship is ACGME accredited.
Duration: 1 year (August 1 to July 31)
Deadline: November 1
Stipend: $58,188/year plus benefits
Location: Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Cleveland Clinic Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowship

• Mark S. Schickendantz, MD

Cleveland Clinic Sports Health Center
5555 Transportation Blvd.
Phone: 216.518.3436
Fax: 216.518.3441
Email: sportsfellowship@ccf.org

Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship Program

Richard Figler, MD
Director of Primary Care Sports Medicine
Program Director, Primary Care
Sports Medicine Fellowship
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
99 Northline Circle, Suite 100
Euclid, Ohio 44119
Ph: 216.692.7833
Fax: 216.692.7802
figlerr@ccf.org

Duration: Three one-year positions (July to June 30)
Deadline: Application must be received between September 1 and September 30
Location: Cleveland Clinic Foundation

This fellowship is ACGME-accredited.
Graduates are eligible for the Certificate of Added Qualification Exam.

Cleveland Clinic's Sports Health Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship is one of the oldest and most established sports medicine fellowship training programs in the United States. The one year program is affiliated with the Department of Family Medicine at Fairview Hospital, a Cleveland Clinic hospital.

Established in 1985, the Primary Care Sports Medicine fellowship has over 50 graduates. Though most have trained in Family Medicine, graduates of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residencies have been accepted to the program. The Fellowship has ACGME accreditation allowing the graduates to take the CAQ for Sports Medicine examination.

Cleveland Clinic Sports Health is a group of sports medicine and team physicians working in collaboration with one another and with our allied medical partners in the office, in the training room, on the playing field and in the classroom with a commitment to the pursuit of clinical excellence. Education and research are integral to the commitment.

Application information

Three Primary care Sports Medicine Fellowship positions are available each year. The Program participates in the NRMP Subspecialty Match and utilizes the Universal Application Process outlined on the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine website.

Applications are accepted from September 1 though September 30 each year.

Graduates of residency programs in the following specialties are eligible to apply to the program:

• Family Medicine
• Internal Medicine
• Pediatrics
• Emergency Medicine
• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine residents apply using NRMP program number 318712F0 for the two positions available for these specialties.

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residents apply using NRMP program number 318712F1 for the one position available for this specialty.

Applications from foreign medical graduates of these specialties are accepted. Please see the link to Cleveland Clinic's Graduate Medical Education for visa requirements and information.