Scientific Advisory Committee
Dr. Richard Gelberman, M.D.
| Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Washington University Medical Center
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Education/Training
- Undergraduate degree, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- M.D., University of Tennessee School of Medicine
- Residency, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Fellowship, Department of Hand and Microsurgery, Duke University
- Fellowship, Department of Orthopaedics at the Boston Children’s Hospital
- Executive Program, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Research Interests
- Hand and wrist
- Upper extremity conditions
Representative Publications (out of over 200)
- Thomopoulos S, Harwood FL, Silva MJ, Amiel D, Gelberman RH. Effect of several growth factors on canine flexor tendon fibroblast proliferation and collagen synthesis in vitro. J. Hand Surg [Am]. 2005 May;30(3):441-7.
- Boyer MI, Goldfarb CA, Gelberman RH. Recent progress in flexor tendon healing. The modulation of tendon healing with rehabilitation variables. J Hand Ther. 2005 Apr-Jun;18(2):80-5; quiz 86.
- Kusano N, Zaegel MA, Placzek JD, Gelberman RH, Silva MJ. Supplementary core sutures increase resistance to gapping for flexor digitorum profundus tendon to bone surface repair - an in vitro biomechanical analysis. J Hand Surg [Br]. 2005 Jun;30(3):288-93. Epub 2005 Apr 8.
- Dovan TT, Gelberman RH, Kusano N, Calcaterra M, Silva MJ. Zone I flexor digitorum profundus repair: an ex vivo biomechanical analysis of tendon to bone repair in cadavera. J Hand Surg [Am]. 2005 Mar;30(2):258-66.
- Dovan TT, Ritty T, Ditsios K, et al. Flexor digitorum profundus tendon to bone tunnel repair: a vascularization and histologic study in canines. J Hand Surg [Am]. 2005 Mar;30(2):246-57.