Our Fellows

The roster of Columbia Shoulder, Elbow and Sports Medicine fellowship alumni includes department chairs, hospital presidents, fellowship directors, and pioneering leaders in the field. This remarkable group of alumni maintain close ties and come together for a biennial academic conference to present their latest research and discuss the latest advances in shoulder, elbow, and sports medicine.

Current Fellows

Matthew R. LeVasseur, MD
Shoulder & Elbow Fellow

Past Fellows

1977-1978	Louis U. Bigliani, MD Chair Emeritus, Columbia University New York, NY	Craig Foster, MD Danbury, CT
1978-1979	Steven McIlveen, MD Paramus, NJ	Lloyd Barnard, MD East Providence, RI
1979-1980	Keith Watson, MD Fort Worth, TX
1980-1981	Francis Mendoza, MD Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY
1981-1982	Edward Craig, MD, MPH CEO, Tria Medical Center, Minniapolis, MN
1982-1983	Jose Perez Sanz, MD Chicago, IL
1983-1984	John Brems, MD Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH	Thomas Fithian, MD Newport News, VA
1984-1985	Dave Morrison, MD Long Beach, CA	William Seitz, MD Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH
	Edward Self, MD Ridgewood, NJ
1985-1986	Peter McCann, MD Director of Orthopedic Surgery, Lenox Health Greenwich Village Northwell Health, New York, NY
1986-1987	Anthony Brown, MD Wightington, England	Evan Flatow, MD President, Mount Sinai West New York, NY
	Osvandre Lech, MD Chief, Shoulder Service Passo Fundo, Brazil
1987-1988	Craig Satterlee, MD North Kansas City, MO	Robert Dalsey, MD Haddonfield, NJ
1988-1989	Frances Cuomo, MD Chief, Shoulder Service Montefiore Medical Center New York, NY	Seth Miller, MD Orthopedic & Neurosurgical Specialists Greenwich, CT
1989-1990	Frank Cordasco, MD Hospital for Special Surgery New York NY	George McCluskey III, MD Chief, Shoulder Serivce, St. Francis Hospital Columbus, GA
1990-1991	Richard Fischer, MD Hilliard, OH	Scott Steinmann, MD Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
	Efraim Deliz, MD Bayamon, Puerto Rico
1991-1992	Roger Pollock, MD Paramus, NJ	Gregory Nicholson, MD Rush-Presbyterian Medical Center Chicago, IL
	Michelle Glasgow, MD Sycamore, IL
1992-1993	Xavier Duralde, MD Peachtree Orthopedic Clinic Atlanta, GA	David Weinstein, MD Southern Colorado Orthopedic Colorado Springs, CO
	Cathy Compito, MD Beth Israel Medical Center New York, NY
1993-1994	Mark Rodosky, MD Chief, Shoulder Service University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA	Timothy Codd, MD Towson Orthopaedics Associates Towson, MD
1994-1995	Alton Barron, MD NYU Langone New York, NY	Ken Yamaguchi, MD SVP and CMO, Centene Corporation Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1995-1996	Patrick Connor, MD OrthoCarolina; Team Physician, Carolina Panthers Charlotte, NC	William Levine, MD Chair, Orthopedic Surgery; Chief, Shoulder Service Columbia University, New York, NY
	Robert Wilson, MD Rankin Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Center Washington, DC
1996-1997	Julian Arroyo, MD Puget Sound Orthopedic Surgeons Lakewood, WA	Mark Miller, MD Chesterfield, MO
1997-1998	Guido Marra, MD Director, Shoulder & Elbow Service Northwestern University Medical Center Chicago, IL	Chris Martin, MD Salt Lake City, UT
1998-1999	Treg Brown, MD Herrin, IL	J. Michael Wiater, MD Chief, Shoulder Surgery, William Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, MI
1999-2000	Michael Freehill, MD Sports & Orthopaedic Specialists Edina, MN	Theodore Blaine, MD Hospital for Special Surgery Stamford, CT
2000-2001	Gregory Bauer, MD Chief, Shoulder Service Goldsboro Orthopaedic Assoc. Goldsboro, NC	Anand Murthi, MD Chief of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Union Memorial Hospital Baltimore, MD
2001-2002	Gregory Lervick, MD Twin Cities Orthopaedics Eden Prairie, MN	Raymond Carroll, MD Cary Orthopaedics Cary, NC
2002-2003	Walter Stanwood, MD Plymouth Bay Orthopaedic Duxbury, MA	Rolando Izquierdo, MD Crystal Lake Professional Center Crystal Lake, IL
2003-2004	Kevin Setter, MD Chief, Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, SUNY Upstate Medical College East Syracuse, NY	Ilya Voloshin, MD Chief, Shoulder Surgery, University of Rochester Rochester, NY
2004-2005	Steven Goldberg MD Physicians Regional Medical Center Naples, FL	Sean Bak MD Motor City Orthopedics Novi, MI
2005-2006	John-Erik Bell, MD Chief, Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon, NH	Sara Edwards, MD Associate Professor, UCSF San Francisco, CA
2006-2007	Matthew Kippe, MD New Bedford, MA
2007-2008	Aaron Covey, MD Westport, CT	Maher Bahu, MD Ortho Specialists of Oakland Oakland, CA
2008-2009	Katherine Vadasdi, MD Orthopedic & Neurosurgical Specialists Greenwich, CT	Chad Marion, MD Pacific Medical Center Seattle, WA
2009-2010	Karen Boselli, MD Concord Orthopedics Concord, NH	R. Michael Greiwe, MD Commonwealth Orthopaedics Edgewood, KY
2010-2011	Stephanie Hsu, MD Northside Orthopedics Atlanta, GA	Todd Moen, MD The Carrell Clinic Dallas, TX
2011-2012	Ian R. Byram, MD Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee Franklin, TN	Hyun-Min (Mike) Kim, MD Associate Professor, University of Missouri Columbia, MO
2012-2013	Okechukwu Anakwenze, MD Chief, Shoulder Service, Duke University Durham, NC	Jaicharan Iyengar, MD Alpine Orthopaedic Medical Group Stockton, CA
2013-2014	Eugene W. Brabston, MD Assistant Professor, UAB Hospital Birmingham, AL	Balazs Galdi, MD Chief, Sports Medicine, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University Newark, NJ
2014-2015	Justin L. Hodgins, MD St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto Ontario, Canada	David Kovacevic, MD New York Metro Orthopedics and Spine New York, NY
2015-2016	Diego Villacis, MD Dupage Medical Group Glenn Ellyn, IL	Julianne Munoz, MD Assistant Professor, University of Miami Miami, FL
2016-2017	Djuro Petkovic, MD Illinois Bone and Joint Institute, Chicago, IL	Brian B. Shiu, MD Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
2017-2018	Brian Grogan, MD Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI	Daniel Song, MD Colorado Springs, CO
2018-2019	James Irvine, MD (AOSSM) University of Pittsburg, Pittsburgh, PA	Michael Knudsen, MD (ASES) Assistant Professor, Columbia University, New York, NY
2019-2020	Mario Lobao Goncalves, MD (AOSSM) Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA	J.T. Heffernan, MD (ASES) Proliance, Puget Sound Orthopedics, Lakewood, WA
2020-2021	Nicholas Dantzker, MD (AOSSM) Knoxville Orthopaedic Clinic, Knoxville, TN	Nathan Lanham, MD (ASES) Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, NC
2021-2022	Thomas Fortney, MD (AOSSM) New Hampshire Orthopaedic Center, Bedford, NH	Nathan Kopydlowski, MD (ASES) Aurora Orthopedics, Milwaukee, WI
2022-2023	Alan Reynolds, MD (AOSSM) Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC	Brandon Rogalski, MD (ASES) Assistant Professor, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

2023-2024

Abed Abdelaziz, MD
Texas Orthopedics, Sports & Rehabilitation Associates
Austin, TX

Alex Rondon, MD, MBA
Orthopaedics of New England
West Hartford, CT

Shoulder and Elbow

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