Faculty | Duke Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Hand, Wrist, and Upper Extremity

Yaw Boachie-Adjei, MD

Clinical Faculty; Co-Section Head, CDHIP

Linda Carime Cendales, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

Warren Hammert, MD

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Vice Chair, Education

Christopher Klifto, MD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Neill Li, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery

Suhail Mithani, MD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Tyler Pidgeon, MD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Clinical Associate Vice Chair

Marc J. Richard, MD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Vice Chair of Faculty; Program Director, Hand Fellowships

David S. Ruch, MD

Virginia Flowers Baker Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Hand, Wrist, and Upper Extremity Division Chief

Eliana Saltzman, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Erica D. Taylor, MD, MBA

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Chief Medical Officer of Duke Health Integrated Practice; Vice Chair, Department of Orthopaedics

Adult Reconstruction

Michael P. Bolognesi, MD

Virginia Flowers Baker Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Adult Reconstruction Division Chief; Co-Program Director, Adult Reconstruction Fellowships

Adam C. Brekke, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Joseph Cline, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Michael C. Comstock, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Amanda Hayes, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

William Jiranek, MD

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Vice Chair for Practice Innovation; Co-Chair, COORDS; Chair, APT

Brian D. Lewis, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Section Head, Hip Preservation; Co-Program Director, Hip Fellowships

Sean P. Ryan, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Director, Clinical Research Unit

Andrew M. Schwartz, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Thorsten M. Seyler, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Associate Program Director, Residency, Co-Program Director, Adult Reconstruction Fellowships

Samuel D. Stanley, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Samuel S. Wellman MD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Foot and Ankle

Samuel B. Adams Jr., MD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Clinician Scientists Section Head

Annunziato “Ned” Amendola, MD

Virginia Flowers Baker Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Sports Medicine Division Chief

Michael C. Comstock, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

James K. DeOrio, MD

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Mark E. Easley, MD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Foot and Ankle Division Chief; Program Director, Foot and Ankle Fellowships

Andrew E. Hanselman, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Jonathan Kaplan, MD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Foot and Ankle Associate Division Chief

Christopher D. Murawski, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Cesar de Cesar Netto, MD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Foot and Ankle Fellowship Program Lead

James A. Nunley, MD, MS

The Goldner Jones Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Kathryn M. O'Connor, MD, MSPT

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Karl M. Schweitzer, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Podiatry

Millicent Brown, DPM

Clinical Associate of Orthopaedic Surgery

Melissa Hill, DPM

Clinical Faculty

Michael Kerzner, DPM

Clinical Faculty; Podiatry Division Chief

Brandon Lee, DPM

Clinical Faculty

Gary Liao, DPM

Clinical Faculty

Douglas W. Schreyack DPM, JD

Clinical Faculty

Alan Sotelo, DPM, MBA

Clinical Faculty

Kyle Wamelink, DPM

Clinical Faculty

Oncology

Benjamin A. Alman, MD, FRCSC

James R. Urbaniak Professor and Chair

Brian E. Brigman, MD, PhD

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Sarcoma Center Director

William C. Eward, MD, DVM

Frank H. Bassett III, MD Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Director, Residency Program

Julia Visgauss, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Orthopaedic Oncology Division Chief

Orthopaedic Trauma & Hip Preservation

Amy Behman, MB ChB, PhD, FRCSC

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Malcolm R. DeBaun, MD

Section Chief, Orthopaedic Trauma; Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Brian D. Lewis, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Section Head, Hip Preservation; Co-Program Director, Hip Fellowships

Richard C. Mather III, MD, MBA

Clinical Faculty

Steven A. Olson, MD

Goldner Jones Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Trauma/Hip Preservation, Division Chief; Co-Program Director, Fellowships Hip/Trauma

Christian Pean, MD, MS

Executive Director for AI and Information Technology Innovation; Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Rachel Reilly, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Program Director, Trauma Fellowships

Samuel D. Stanley, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Chiropractics

Justin Goehl, DC, MS

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Anthony Hamm, DC, MS

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Benjamin Holmes, DC, PhD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Eugene Lewis, DC, MPH

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Pediatric Orthopaedics

Melissa Allen, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Benjamin A. Alman, MD, FRCSC

James R. Urbaniak Professor and Chair

Amy Behman, MB ChB, PhD, FRCSC

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Anthony A. Catanzano, Jr, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Director, Clinical Research - Pediatric Orthopaedic Division

Robert K. Lark, MD, MS

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Pediatric Orthopaedics Division Chief; Program Director, Pediatric Fellowships

Christopher D. Lunsford, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Ankit Patel, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Spine

Muhammad Abd-El-Barr, MD

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

John C. Barr, MD

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

Deb Bhowmick, MD

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

Christopher R. Brown, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Steven Cook, MD

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

Clifford L. Crutcher, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Olumide Danisa, MD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Melissa Erickson, MD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Medical Director, Duke University Hospital Perioperative Services and Combined Complex Spine Fellowship, Co-Director

Rory C. Goodwin, MD

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

Oren N. Gottfried, MD

Professor of Neurosurgery

Peter M. Grossi, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Michael Haglund, MD

Professor of Neurosurgery

David Huie, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Spine

Kristen E. Jones MD, FAANS

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Orthopaedic Surgery

Joe T. Minchew, MD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Site Director, Duke Regional Hospital; Co-Section Head, CDHIP

Douglas G. Orndorff, MD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Peter Passias, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Associate Chief, Spine Division; Co-Medical Director, Spine Research Program; Co-Chair, Spine Protocol Review Committee

Scot E. Reeg, MD

Clinical Faculty

William J. Richardson, MD

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Anthony Rivera, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Brett Rocos, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Access Champion

Christopher Shaffrey, MD

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Professor of Neurosurgery; Spine Division Chief

Khoi Than, MD

Professor of Neurosurgery

Dennis A. Turner, MD

Professor of Neurosurgery

Mazen Zein, DO

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Spine

Physiatry

Michael O. Boyd, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Zachary Carter, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

H. Michael Guo, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Carolyn Keeler, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Gloria G. Liu, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Rowena Mariano, MD

Medical Instructor of Neurosurgery

Anthony Rivera, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Justin R. Scruggs, MD

Clinical Faculty

Gabriel C. Smith, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Jon Wilson, DO

Clinical Faculty

Mazen Zein, DO

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Spine

Sports Medicine

Annunziato “Ned” Amendola, MD

Virginia Flowers Baker Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Sports Medicine Division Chief

Oke A. Anakwenze, MD, MBA

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Shoulder Section Head

Blake R. Boggess, DO

Professor of Community and Family Medicine

Michael Boyd, DO

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Kendall Bradley, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Jeffrey R. Bytomski, DO

Professor of Community and Family Medicine

Anthony S. Ceraulo, DO

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Jonathan F. Dickens, MD

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Program Director, Sports Medicine Fellowships

Luting Eckensweiler, DO, CAQSM

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Andre C. Grant, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Tally E. Lassiter, Jr., MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Brian Lau, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Associate Program Director, Sports Medicine Fellowships

Richard C. Mather III, MD, MBA

Clinical Faculty

Michael Moverman, MD, MMS

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Shalini Ramasunder, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Service Chief, Durham Veterans Administration

Kevin P. Speer, MD

Clinical Faculty

Harry Stafford Jr., MD, CSCS, MBA

Clinical Instructor of Family Medicine; Associate Director, Duke Sports Science Institute; Director, Sports Performance

Dean C. Taylor, MD

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Robert T. Tisherman, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Alison P. Toth, MD

Surgeon-in-Chief, Duke University Health System; Executive Vice Chair Clinical, Duke Orthopaedics; Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Rebecca Wadlinger, DO, CAQSM, ATC

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics

Jocelyn R. Wittstein MD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Co-Chair, COORDS

Doctor of Physical Therapy

Tiffany N. Adams, PT, PhD, DPT, MBA

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Core Faculty

Grant Bitzer, PT, DPT, EdD

Student Team Experience in Practice (STEPs®) Coordinator; Instructor, Medical Center-Associated Faculty

W. Todd Cade, PT, PhD, FAPTA

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Doctor of Physical Therapy Division Chief

Rosalinda C. Canizares, PT, DPT

Coordinator of Alumni Engagement; Instructor, Medical Center, Associated Faculty

Laura Case, PT, DPT, MS, PhD, C/NDT

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Richard Clendaniel, PT, PhD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Director of Admissions

Derek Clewley, PT, DPT, PhD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Chad E. Cook, PT, PhD, MBA, FAPTA

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Director of Clinical Facilitation Research; Director, Duke Center of Excellence in Manual and Manipulative Therapy

J. Kyle Covington, PT, DPT, PhD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Director, Post-Professional Education and Educational Innovation;

Louis E. DeFrate, ScD

Laszlo Ormandy Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Vice Chair, Biomechanics, Movement, and Imaging Research

Rob Farrell, PT, DPT

Faculty Development Resident; Instructor, Medical Center

Jody Feld, PT, DPT, PhD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Assistant Director, Interprofessional Education

Leonardo Ferreira, PT, PhD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Steven Z. George, PT, PhD

Laszlo Ormandy Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Adam Goode, PT, DPT, PhD

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Vice Chair, Clinical Research and Epidemiology

Jamie L. Greco, PT, DPT, EdD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Co-Director, Clinical Education

Tiffany Hilton, PT, PhD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Program Director and Director of Professional Education

Jeffrey M. Hoder, PT, DPT

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Director of Student Affairs

Maggie Horn, DPT, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences

Joshua Johnson, PT, DPT, PhD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Vrunda Kapadia, DPT, MS, PT

Instructor, Medical Center-Associated Faculty

Nicholas LeBlond, PT, DPT, ATC, LAT, OCS, FAAOMPT

Instructor, Medical Center-Associated Faculty

Trevor Lentz, PT, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Katie Myers, PT, DPT, PhD

Co-Director of Clinical Education; Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Assistant Director of Curriculum

Amy M. Pastva, PT, MA, PhD

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Director, Division Research

Laura Pietrosimone, PT, DPT, PhD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Ashley Poole, PT, DPT

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Michael P. Reiman, PT, DPT, PhD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Kelly Reynolds, PT, DPT, NCS, PhD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Marcus Roll, PT, DPT, CBIS

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Corey Simon, DPT, PhD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Occupational Therapy Doctorate Program

Tami Atkins, OTD, MS, OTR/L

Instructor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Antoine Bailliard, PhD, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Sarah Jean Barton, ThD, MS, OTR/L, BCP

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke Divinity School; Program Director, Occupational Therapy Doctorate

Janice P. Burke, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA

Medical Associate Professor

Abigail Carroll, PhD, MS, OTR/L

Instructor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Emily M. D’Agostino, DPH, MS, MEd, MA

Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery and Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences

Tomeico Faison, OTD, OTR/L

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Director, Professional Pathways

MaryBeth Gallagher, PhD, OTR/L, BCMH

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Raheleh Ghasseminia, MS, OT/L

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Barbara Hooper, PhD, OTR, FAOTA

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Occupational Therapy Doctorate Division Chief

Kimberly P. Hreha, EdD, OTR/L

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Assistant Professor and Senior Fellow, Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development; Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology