Fellowships
 The University of Chicago offers multiple
post-graduate fellowships, including orthopaedic oncology,
sports, and adult reconstruction. Further information will be
available soon.
The Hand and Upper
Extremity Fellowship at the University of Chicago has two
Orthopaedic Attendings and a Plastic Surgery Attending. Dr.
Daniel Mass is head of the Fellowship program and has been an
Orthopaedic Surgeon for the past twenty-three years with a busy
hand and upper extremity practice. Dr. Roderick Birnie is an
Orthopaedic Surgeon who has been practicing ten years and also
does all upper extremity. Dr. Rob Lohman is a Plastic Surgeon
who has been here for about five years who does microvascular
free flaps and also takes Hand Call.
On call, you will interact with all of the
attendings and in the office practice your main interactions
will be with Dr. Mass. Currently, the service does about twelve
hundred upper extremity cases per year, about one third are
shoulder and elbow and two-thirds are hand and wrist cases.
There is an excellent mixture of rheumatoid, wrist arthroscopy,
fracture care, and flaps. In order to increase our exposure to
congenital problems and severe trauma, we spend two weeks a year
in Lima, Peru where we see some very interesting cases. This
also gives us an opportunity to see the countryside and meet
other hand surgeons.
The fellowship requires a research
project, which is usually a basic science research project, that
is performed in the Hand and Upper Extremity Laboratory. We do
research on flexion tendon repairs and biomechanical injuries to
the hand, wrist and elbow. You are given a lot of leeway in
order to perform these procedures. The lab also allows you to
practice microsurgery and do dissection on fresh frozen cadavers
for your own knowledge.
Our hospital is not an adult trauma center
so the level of night call-ins are relatively infrequent during
the year averaging fewer than twenty nights. The philosophy of
the program is to have excellent exposure to elective
reconstructive cases and time to do a lot of reading and
research.
For applications, please contact Dr. Mass' staff
by email
or call 773-702-6306.
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Last update
01/10/2010
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