Amy L. Ladd, M.D.

Stanford University School of Medicine   Head of Outreach

Background     

Dartmouth College, AB 1980
SUNY Upstate Medical Center, MD 1984
University of Rochester Orthopaedic Residency 1989
Brigham & Women's Harvard Combined Hand Fellowship 1990

Clinical and Educational Responsibilities

See: http://handsurgery.stanford.edu

Research Interests

Clinical orthopaedic practice inclusive of surgery of the hand, shoulder and elbow, with an emphasis in sports medicine, reconstructive surgery, pediatric surgery, and the spinal cord injured patient.

Clinical interests include problem fractures of the distal radius, congenital hand anomalies, and shoulder problems in the wheelchair ambulator.

Research interests include use of synthetic bone substitutes, outcome studies of hand surgery in congenital anomalies and epidermolysis bullosa, inflammatory disease markers in rheumatoid arthritis, and the use of multimedia in education of surgery, including interactive web teaching and surgical simulation

Current SUMMIT Projects and Collaborations

• Media Server
• Henry Jones Collection
• American Society for Surgery of the Hand www.assh.org
• American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons www.aaos.org
• 3D Interactive Atlas of the Thumb
• Internet2 orthopedic workgroup