Sports Medicine
This Sports Medicine surgeon is the senior team physician for the Miami Heat. He has the rings to prove it too. This leaves Dr. Lerebours with some catching up to do as he is working with the Heat too. Also, this doctor is currently NOT seeing new patients at this time.
Who is Dr. Harlan Selesnick?
This Foot/Ankle surgical provider has recently flown the coop and we are no longer scheduling patients with us.
Who is Dr. Thomas San Giovanni?
Our trauma team can see all fractures except for a few. For example, they don't see fingers and toes. We send those Fractures to which teams?
What are Hand/Wrist and Foot/Ankle?
These are the two body parts that our Total Joint physicians focus on treating DJD/arthritis in patients and possibly have surgical replacements.
This condition is a common ask for evaluations of the hands where the finger gets stuck in a bent position. (Like your mid shot). Patients can see Drs. Cardoso or Bravo for evaluation and potential corrective surgery.
What is a trigger finger?
Although his subspecialty in our practice is Sports Medicine, this specialist will sometimes treat other patient issues like foot, hands, and even spine at Mariners Hospital (MH) in Tavernier which we also refer to as the Upper Keys (UK).
Who is Dr. Papp?
This provider from PCSM is the head physician of that team. He's also one of the team providers for the Miami Dolphins (the only non-surgeon to do so).
Who is Dr. Michael Swartzon?
The Trauma team takes on a lot of Fracture related cases, both active/recent and post-traumatic issues such as non-union, mal-union, infections, and arthritic issues. But this Dr. has a reputation for taking on the most challenging cases of all the doctors.
Who is Dr. Charles Jordan?
Of the surgeons in this group, he is the most requested doctor from Total Joints. He also has a PA named Ricky Lo.
Who is Dr. Alexander Van Der Ven?
Although this provider does NOT treat elbows, this doctor not only is apart of our Hands/Wrist team. He also works in tangent with the Miami Cancer Institute as a Plastic Surgeon.
Who is Dr. Matthew Treiser?
Although Dr. Uribe is the head honcho Founder of Baptist Health Orthopedic Care, his two cofounders are these two Sports Medicine surgeons. One is the team physician for the FIU athletes and the other is the Medical Director of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools Athletic League.
Who are Drs. Keith Sheldon Hechtman and John Zvijac?
In PCSM, these two doctor are the official team physicians with Miami Football Club (not to be confused with Leo Messi and Inter-Miami).
Who are Drs. Luis Rodriguez and Alejandro Centurion?
When it comes to Spine Fractures, those do not go to the Trauma team. Instead it goes to this Doctor as well as his ARNP from time to time. If not, MNI.
Who are Dr. Jose Mena and Juan Alfonso, ARNP?
This is the only provider from this team that works with Miami Cancer Institute where he focuses on oncological issues. These include benign bone lesions or sarcomas. He also is the only provider on this team with two PAs (one for ortho and one for oncology).
Who is Dr. Giovanni Paraliticci?
Most of the doctors on this team, like Dr. Bravo and Dr. Diaz-Garcia, continue the tradition of hosting at least one day of clinic in Doctors Hospital aside from their other offices. However, this Doctor does not host clinic here since she travels between our offices in the Keys (Marathon and Key West).
Who is Dr. Annie Plate?
This surgeon not only works with the Miami Dolphins and the 2024 champion Florida Panthers like Dr. Uribe, but he is also the Chief Orthopedic Surgeon for the West Kendall Baptist facility.
Who is Dr. Gautam Yagnik?
Between the previously mentioned PCSM doctors and Drs. Kryriacou and Yurubi, they can all treat patients with these two types of conservative treatment methods before surgery becomes an option.
What are injections and ordering physical therapy?
The trauma team will see most types of fractures in the musculoskeletal system. Skull fractures are referred to the ER immediately, Finger Fractures go to the Hand/Wrist Team, and Toe Fractures go to the Foot/Ankle Team. But rib fractures are referred to this group (we unfortunately refer out to).
Cardiothoracic division (outside of our group).
For patients who have never been treated for knee or hip pain who want to see Dr. Suarez or Dr. Van Der Ven, this PA works as a float that can see patients for work-up.
Who is Francisco "Frank" Garcia?
These providers are floats for the Hand/Wrist Team. They can provide work-up for patients with new hand/wrist related injuries and pain, but cannot see post-op patients without prior approval.
Who are Jose Manuel "Manny" Rodriguez-Leiva, ARNP and Amy Lee-Bodden, PA?
Although Sports Medicine is vague and some doctors do more or less depending on the clinic, these are the three main body parts that Sports Medicine treats (depending on the type of injury).
What are Shoulders, Knees, and Elbows?
Each Foot and Ankle Surgeon has a PA that works directly with them. Dr. Chapman recently attained Adrianna Raudes, Dr. Gil is now linked to Lazaro Rodriguez, and Dr. Wingo to Michael Santoro. But this PA's an extra resources in this Surgical team.
Who is Ean Phillips?
If pt calls with a diagnostic result of Osteopenia or Osteoporosis from a recent Bone Density exam (also known as a DEXA exam), they will be referred to our Bone Health Clinic hosted by these two providers.
Who are April Tschumy, ARNP and Yasmine Canela, ARNP?
The most senior member of the group only sees knees (NO HIPS). I mentioned that when I joined that they told me he would retire...and he has not.
Who is Dr. Francisco Borja?
If a patient has this type of diagnostic examination that checks for nerve activity in the upper extremity (hand/wrist/arm), they should see Dr. Cardoso instead of the PA Andres.
What is an EMG/NCV?