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Melvin P. Rosenwasser, M.D.
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HONORS/AWARDS


2002 Su, SW, Raia, FJ. Parisien, M, Strauch, RJ, Rosenwasser,MP: The Gross and Histological Analysis of Teno-Fix; A Novel Device for Flexor Tendon Repair New York Society for Surgery of the Hand Resident and Fellows Night, First Prize Winner.

2002 Su, BW, Protopsaltis, TS, Strauch, RJ, Rosenwasser, MP: The Biomechanical Analsysis of Teno-Fix; A Novel Device for Flexor Tendon Repair, New York Society for Surgery of the Hand Resident and Fellows Night, Third Prize Winner.

2001 Matthews, S, Rosenwasser, MP:A Laboratory Rat Study to Assess a New Variation on the Microsurgical Technique Used to Treat Hypothenar Hammer Syndrome, New York Society for Surgery of Hand Resident and Fellows Night, First Prize Winner

1998 Roh, MS, Xu, L, Strauch, RJ, Rosenwasser, MP, Mow, VC: Contact Analysis of the Thumb Carpometacarpal Joint: Joint Kinematics and Computer Simulation, New York Hand Society Residents and Fellows Meeting, First Prize Winner

1998 New York Magazine “The Best Doctors in New York”, Hall of Fame

1998-2002 National Institutes of Health, Co-Principal Investigator, “The Etiology of Thumb Carpometacarpal Osteoarthritis

1994-1998 National Institutes of Health, Co-Principal Investigator, “The Etiology of Thumb Carpometacarpal Osteoarthritis”

1998 Anatomically Correct Prosthesis and Method and Apparatus for Manufacturing Prosthesis, Patent, US Serial No. 08/674,826

1995 Surface Anatomy of the A1 Pulley: Winner of First Place Prize, New York Hand Society Residents and Fellows Night, May, 1995.

1993-1995 Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation, Principal Investigator, “Development of a Large Animal Experimental Model of Osteochondral Healing”

1995 Strauch, RJ, Rosenwasser, MP, Behrman, MJ: Acute Dislocation of the Carpometacarpal Joint of the Thumb: An Anatomical Study, New York Society for Surgery of the Hand Annual Residents Night Meeting, Winner of the First Place Prize, Manhasset, New York.

1990 Seed Grant-ASSH 90-5 American Society of Surgery of the Hand "Studies on the Etiology of Thumb Carpometacarpal Osteoarthritis"

1990-1994 Bristol Myers/Zimmer Grant for Excellence in Orthopaedic Research: "Fundamental and Clinical Interdisciplinary Research on Diarthrodial Joint Pathologies: Hand, Knee and Shoulder"

1987-1989 Career Development Award, Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation "Correlates of Healing Mechanical Properties, Biochemical Composition, and Quantitative Morphological Assay with CPM"

1982 Chief Resident, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

1976 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York,
President Senior Class

1973 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, Research: Cardiac Isoenzymes Study


1969-1970 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, Research: Synthesis of Dithzione, Grant from Hynson, Wescott, Dunning, Baltimore, Maryland

1968 Salutatorian, Valley Central High School, Montgomery, New York