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AOA Critical Issues: Gender Justice in Academic Medicine
Day C, Lattanza L, Van Heest A, Templeton K, Fore J, Ode G. AOA Critical Issues: Gender Justice in Academic Medicine. Journal Of Bone And Joint Surgery 2023, 105: 1214-1219. PMID: 37027484, DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.22.01204.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2024
Trends in Open Versus Endoscopic Carpal Tunnel Release From 2010 to 2021
Ratnasamy P, Rudisill K, Joo P, Lattanza L, Grauer J. Trends in Open Versus Endoscopic Carpal Tunnel Release From 2010 to 2021. JAAOS Global Research And Reviews 2024, 8: e24.00077. PMID: 38885416, PMCID: PMC11191037, DOI: 10.5435/jaaosglobal-d-24-00077.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAOA Critical Issues Symposium: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Orthopaedic Surgery.
Tabaie S, Dance S, Schmitz M, Lattanza L, Mesfin A. AOA Critical Issues Symposium: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Orthopaedic Surgery. Journal Of Bone And Joint Surgery 2024 PMID: 38635740, DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.23.01207.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2023
AOA Critical Issues: Perceptions on the State of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Orthopaedic Surgery
Tabaie S, Schermerhorn J, Baird M, Lattanza L, Ode G, Mesfin A. AOA Critical Issues: Perceptions on the State of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Orthopaedic Surgery. Journal Of Bone And Joint Surgery 2023, 105: 1920-1926. PMID: 37651571, DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.23.00392.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAmerican Orthopaedic AssociationOrthopaedic surgeryPhysician workforcePhysician recruitmentOrthopaedic AssociationEmail listservsMembership directoryFree-response questionsDemographic informationOrthopaedic residentsSurveyed membersPromote equityPositive attitudesSelf-identifyMultiple-choice questionsField of orthopaedicsSurvey populationOrthopaedicsResident selectionQuantitative dataSurveySurgeryInclusionPopulationPhysiciansThree-Dimensional Printing of the Patellofemoral Joints of Patellar Instability Patients
Beitler B, Yu K, Wang A, Frumberg D, Tommasini S, Wiznia D, Cooperman D, Lattanza L, Fulkerson J. Three-Dimensional Printing of the Patellofemoral Joints of Patellar Instability Patients. Arthroscopy Techniques 2023, 12: e401-e406. PMID: 37013007, PMCID: PMC10066413, DOI: 10.1016/j.eats.2022.11.023.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchRecruitment of the Next Generation of Diverse Hand Surgeons
Donnelley C, Halim A, Lattanza L. Recruitment of the Next Generation of Diverse Hand Surgeons. Hand Clinics 2023, 39: 111-118. PMID: 36402521, DOI: 10.1016/j.hcl.2022.08.009.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2022
AOA Critical Issues Symposium: Deficit Recovery for the Orthopaedic Service Line
Day CS, Goldfarb CA, Lattanza LL, Yoshida MT, Levin LS. AOA Critical Issues Symposium: Deficit Recovery for the Orthopaedic Service Line. Journal Of Bone And Joint Surgery 2022, 105: 172-178. PMID: 35950756, DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.21.01409.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHospital net incomeRevenue deficitHuman capitalNet incomeRevenue recoveryFinancial performanceFinancial recoveryFinancial statusCost reduction strategiesOngoing public health crisisStrategic actionsAdministrative proceduresHealth care systemCOVID-19 pandemicInstitutionsIncomeRevenueFinanceHealth care institutionsUnited StatesCapitalSubstantial portionAvailable resourcesCrisisPolicyAnatomic Radial Head Arthroplasty: The Importance of Implant Angle
Cherches MF, Halvorson R, Lalchandani G, Kandemir U, Lattanza LL, Lee N. Anatomic Radial Head Arthroplasty: The Importance of Implant Angle. The Journal Of Hand Surgery 2022, 47: 534-539. PMID: 35397935, DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2022.02.001.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRadial head arthroplastyImplant failureStress shieldingRadiocapitellar arthritisOptimal implant designSTUDY/LEVELImplant angleRadial head implantsStem-shaft angleImplant designAcute fracturesRetrospective reviewNeck fracturesImplant survivalInternal fixationProsthesis removalProsthesis positioningRadial headProximal radiusLateral radiographsAcademic centersElbow radiographsAnatomic designHead implantsIntact implantsThe Perry Initiative: Building the Pipeline for Women in Orthopaedics
Buckley J, Dearolf L, Lattanza L. The Perry Initiative: Building the Pipeline for Women in Orthopaedics. Journal Of The American Academy Of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2022, 30: 358-363. PMID: 35245255, DOI: 10.5435/jaaos-d-21-01112.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchInterobserver and Intraobserver Reliability of Classification Systems for Radiographic Complications After Radial Head Arthroplasty
Halvorson RT, Lalchandani GR, Cherches MF, Petit LM, Lattanza L, Lee NH, Kandemir U. Interobserver and Intraobserver Reliability of Classification Systems for Radiographic Complications After Radial Head Arthroplasty. The Journal Of Hand Surgery 2022, 48: 513.e1-513.e8. PMID: 35181176, DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2021.11.028.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRadial head arthroplastyHeterotopic ossificationRadiocapitellar arthritisRadiographic complicationsBrooker classificationInterobserver reliabilityIntraobserver reliabilityStress shieldingIntraclass correlation coefficientBroberg-MorreyRadiographic reviewHigh intraobserver reliabilityClassification systemRadiolucencyHigh interobserver reliabilityOrthopaedic surgeonsElbow radiographsArthritisSS classificationSurgeonsFleiss' kappaLevel of trainingComplicationsArthroplastyRadiographs
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Lisa Lattanza, MD, is the chair of Yale Medicine Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation and specializes in surgical reconstruction of pediatric and adult elbow problems, including those that are congenital or caused by trauma.
Dr. Lattanza is a world-renowned leader in personalized 3D surgical planning to correct upper extremity deformities. “Many bony deformities in orthopaedic surgery lend themselves to virtual surgical planning,” she says. “We capture images on a CT scan and run it through specialized software to create 3D images we can manipulate. We can plan our surgery before ever making a cut.”
This technology, Dr. Lattanza says, is the future. “Before virtual surgery, we were measuring from a regular X-ray in 2D and making assumptions about 3D objects—the bones. There is a lot of room for error with this. We are still mostly using off-the-shelf implants. Even though the technology exists for personalized implants, it is not widely approved. Eventually though, the days of pulling big trays of metal implants off the shelf will be gone—all patients will need is the one that has been 3D printed specifically for them, and that fits them perfectly,” she says. “We are already doing this and plan to build on it.”
An athlete through college, Dr. Lattanza started her career as a physical therapist at a sports medicine group before deciding to pursue medical school. “I was totally enamored by the musculoskeletal system and was on a singular path to become an orthopaedic surgeon,” she says. “From there, I knew I wanted to be really good at one thing instead of being OK at a lot of things.”
After a rotation at a pediatric hospital, where a hand surgeon was treating a child born without a thumb, Dr. Lattanza knew her path. “In this procedure, you take the index finger, shorten it, rotate it, move all the muscles, tendons, nerves, and blood vessels around, so that the index finger becomes the thumb and you restore the ability to pinch and grasp,” she explains. “I thought there couldn’t be a cooler operation. And restoring that lost function, for me, was more rewarding than reconstructing an ACL tear. That’s when I decided to become a hand and upper extremity surgeon.”
Dr. Lattanza’s research interests also include diversity in orthopaedic surgery, specifically the underrepresentation of women. She co-founded a nonprofit organization, the Perry Initiative, which exposes high school girls to orthopaedic surgery and biomechanical engineering and female medical students to the field of orthopaedic surgery. The Perry Initiative has over 14,000 participants in 54 cities; about 21% of their graduates choose and match into orthopaedic surgery residencies.
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- September 11, 2024Source: Yale Daily News
Yale Orthopedics Department unveils fully in-house, personalized 3D surgery program
- July 30, 2024Source: Yale News
Lisa Lattanza Appointed Ensign Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
- July 24, 2024Source: Yahoo! Finance
3D printing in surgery: coming to hospitals soon?
- May 28, 2024
Yale Begins 3D Orthopaedic Surgical Procedures That Are Fully In-house