| Specialty Care for the Shoulder, Elbow, Wrist & Hand | |
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RESEARCH & EDUCATION |
Fellowship Teaching HistoryEach of our partners has come to The Indiana Hand Center to pursue his own personal passion and fulfill a commitment to teaching post-graduate hand surgical training. All partners have completed a Fellowship and are board certified. Through our Fellowship program, they are role models and instill camaraderie and a sense of esprit de corps. They have trained at some of the most reputable residency programs in the U.S. and have been recruited from around the nation to join our practice. William B. Kleinman, MD, originally hails from New Jersey. He received his orthopaedic training and post-graduate Hand Fellowship training at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City before his microvascular surgery training at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina. Dr. Kleinman is the only partner at The Indiana Hand Center who did not receive his post-graduate hand training in Indianapolis. His areas of academic intensity focus on wrist pathophysiology, congenital reconstruction and nerve entrapment. He was our first Sterling Bunnell Traveling Fellow from the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Hill Hastings II, MD, comes to The Indiana Hand Center originally from Southern California. He received his orthopaedic training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by his post-graduate Fellowship in Hand Surgery in Indianapolis. Dr. Hastings is a master of rigid internal and external skeletal fixation of the upper limb, a pioneer in the development of the Biomet Discovery Elbow Replacement System and actively involved in management of tetraplegic patients. Like all of our partners, he is a committed educator, totally immersed in the training of our post-graduate Fellows. Dr. Hastings was our second Sterling Bunnell Traveling Fellow from the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Richard S. Idler, MD, is also a product of the orthopaedic residency program at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He initially comes to us from Ohio and has been the consummate generalist hand surgeon since his Fellowship training in Indianapolis. Dr. Idler delivers a wide spectrum of didactic sessions to our Fellows during their academic year, and was the director of our Fellowship Program for ten years. He is deeply committed to the educational process. Thomas J. Fischer, MD, is our only native Hoosier, but received his orthopaedic training at the University of Washington in Seattle. After his Hand Fellowship at The Indiana Hand Center, he requested an additional six months of microvasular surgery training at Duke University, and six months of hand education at multiple centers in Europe before joining us in practice. Dr. Fischer is a master educator, with a primary focus on skeletal fixation. Each resident from the Indiana University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery rotates with Dr. Fischer for their hand surgery exposure. In addition, he is an active and highly visible part of our Fellowship Training Program. James J. Creighton, MD, came to us from Upstate New York. He received his orthopaedic residency training at the State University of New York in Buffalo before his formal post-graduate Fellowship hand training in Indianapolis. Dr. Creighton has a high level of expertise in the arena of Workman’s Compensation. His understanding of the complex issues of injuries in the workplace has been important to the balance of our practice, and for our Fellows’ understanding of the complexities of many of these issues. He serves as the Managing Partner for The Indiana Hand Center and has been key in streamlining our practice for maximum efficiency. Dr. Creighton and our administrative officers provide critical information to our Fellows throughout their academic year, especially regarding the pitfalls of establishing one’s self in the practice of hand surgery after Fellowship. Alexander D. Mih, MD, came to The Indiana Hand Center from Kansas, by way of his orthopaedic residency at The Mayo Clinic. After his Hand Fellowship with us, Dr. Mih became our full-time representative at the Indiana University Medical Center downtown campus. His geographic status at the Medical Center allows immediate access to our practice for hand and microvascular surgery consultation. He is plugged into to the I.U. residency on-site teaching program, and each of our six Fellows rotates for with him for two months, assuming responsibilities of resident teaching and functioning as a team at the Riley Hospital for Children and the adult University Hospital. Dr. Mih’s forte resides in the area of children’s hand problems and general orthopaedic soft tissue coverage using free-tissue transplant techniques. Robert M. Baltera, MD, hails from the New York metropolitan area and received his orthopaedic training in Syracuse, NY. He has been deeply involved in the finances of The Indiana Hand Center for many years and brings significant insight into keeping our organization fiscally healthy. Dr. Baltera is an integral part of our Fellows’ training. His contemporary perspective enables him to provide them with the understanding of how the hand surgery specialty has migrated to become complex and multifaceted. Jeffrey A. Greenberg, MD, was raised in Brooklyn, NY. Like Dr. Baltera, Dr. Greenberg received his training in orthopaedic surgery at the Syracuse program, prior to being selected to receive his Hand Surgery training in Indianapolis. He is yet another passionate hand surgeon, bringing a high level of enthusiasm for clinical research and teaching to our practice. Dr. Greenberg is currently the director of our Fellowship Program and is instrumental in regularly organizing prospective studies and clinical research projects with our Fellows. F. Thomas Kaplan, MD, is from Baltimore and received his orthopaedic training at the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City before receiving his hand surgery training at The Indiana Hand Center. Dr. Kaplan has a boundless enthusiasm for teaching and a strong commitment to the ideals of our Fellowship Program. With his special interest in arthroscopic and reconstructive shoulder surgery, he brings an additional facet to the practice. He also assists Dr. Greenberg in managing the Fellowship Program and organizes the yearly didactic lecture program. Gregory A. Merrell, MD, is our newest surgeon, joining us in 2007. He received his MD and his residency training in orthopaedics from Yale. He then completed a one-year hand surgery fellowship at Brown University. Dr. Merrell served as team physician for the 2002 Search for Genghis Khan expedition to Mongolia. This expedition was featured on a Discovery Channel documentary.
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