New York Downtown Hospital expands Orthopaedic Services for Lower Manhattan community

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery is a major clinical department at New York Downtown Hospital.

New York Downtown Hospital orthopaedic surgeons now perform over two thousand inpatient and outpatient surgical procedures each year in hospital operating rooms. These include adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery, primary and revision joint replacement of the hip and knee, ambulatory and complex spinal surgery, foot and ankle surgery, shoulder and elbow surgery, surgery of the hand and wrist, orthopaedic oncologic surgery, surgical treatment of fractures and other orthopaedic trauma, as well as a large variety of arthroscopic and sports medicine procedures.

The orthopaedic surgery faculty practice suite is located on the fourth floor of the hospital and provides comprehensive orthopaedic care. Orthopaedic surgeons in all orthopaedic specialties are readily available to see patients in outpatient consultation and follow up care in a state of the art office facility. An outpatient physical and occupational therapy center is available on site.

The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at New York Downtown Hospital is an ACGME approved residency training site in orthopaedic surgery as an integrated part of a rotating orthopaedic surgical residency training program. Orthopaedic surgical residents in all years of training rotate at New York Downtown Hospital.

Orthopaedic surgical conferences are held each weekday throughout the academic year and include lectures by attending and resident staff and a monthly morbidity and mortality conference. There are ongoing departmental performance improvement programs including quality assurance and continuing graduate medical education, as well as an active clinical research program.

The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery also maintains a Division of Podiatric Surgery with a CPME approved podiatric surgical residency training program. The New York Downtown Hospital Podiatric Residency Training Program currently trains three residents per year in the PG1, PG2 and PG3 years. The podiatric residents also rotate on the Orthopaedic Surgical Service as well as in the Emergency Department and various medical services throughout the institution.

New York Downtown Hospital Orthopaedic Surgeons

New York Downtown Hospital Orthopaedic Surgeons by Subspecialty

Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery
Eli Bryk, MD

Orthopaedic Research
Vincent V. Vigorita, MD

Orthopaedic Graduate Medical Education
John R. Denton, MD

*Denotes Section Chief