Dr. S. Robert Rozbruch
Chief Emeritus & Founder (still practicing)
MD, FAAOS
Hospital for Special Surgery — New York, NY, USA
Background
S. Robert Rozbruch is Chief Emeritus and Founder of the Limb Lengthening and Complex Reconstruction Service at Hospital for Special Surgery and Director of its Osseointegration Limb Replacement Center, and a Professor of Clinical Orthopedic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. He earned his MD with honors in research from Weill Cornell Medical College (1990), completed an orthopedic surgery residency at HSS/Cornell, an AO/ASIF orthopaedic trauma fellowship at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and a limb lengthening and deformity correction fellowship at the Maryland Center for Limb Lengthening & Reconstruction in Baltimore. He is board certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery (1998) and continues to practice after founding the service and leading it for over two decades, having handed the chief title to Dr. Fragomen in January 2026.
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Methods practised
Procedures performed
- ●PRECICE internal lengthening nails (femur and tibia)
- ●Ilizarov / Taylor Spatial Frame (hexapod)
- ●monolateral external frames
- ●osseointegration amputation reconstruction
- ●ankle distraction arthroplasty
- ●high tibial osteotomy
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