Physician List and CVs »John Safanda, M.D.
John Safanda, M.D.
Orthopedic Surgery and Hand Surgery
Office Locations
Mailing Address 1613 Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA 94111
Education Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, AB 1992 University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, MD 1999
Residency University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, 1999 – 2004
Fellowship Yale University, Departments of Orthopedic Surgery & Plastic Surgery, New Haven, CT 2004 – 2005
Board Certifications American Board of Orthopedic Surgery Certificate of Added Qualification Hand Surgery
Appointed Qualified Medical Evaluator Division of Workers’ Compensation Medical Unit, 2018
Private Practice Hand to Shoulder Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, Dublin, CA
Professional Appointments Member, Arthrex North American Hand Faculty Co-Founder, Hand Help. A non-profit organization which provides medical missions to Central America for surgical care of the pediatric hand and upper extremity.
Professional Organizations American Board of Orthopedic Surgery American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons American Society for Surgery of the Hand Arthroscopy Association of North America
Awards Sonoma Magazine Top Doctor Award [415] Top Doctor Award AOA 15th Annual Resident Research Award, 2002 Alpha Omega Alpha, 1998
Presentations (Partial List) Safanda JF, Making Complex Distal Radius Fractures Simple. 70th Annnual Meeting of the ASSH. September, 2015 Safanda JF, CMC Athroplasty with Suture Button Fixation. 70th Annual Meeting of the ASSH. September, 2015. Safanda JF, B Goldberg, S Leonelli, M Bagwe, S King, & S Sethuratnam. Bone Healing in Rats Treated with a Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitor. 70th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. New Orleans, LA Feb 2003 Safanda JF, S Leonelli, M Bagwe, S Sethuratnam, S King, & B Goldberg. The Effect of Cyclooxygenase- 2 Inhibitors on bone healing. AOA 115th Annual Meeting. Victoria, British Columbia. Jun, 2002 Kerns JM, D Duval, JF Safanda, & M Gonzalez. End-to-side bypass grafts in partial lesions of the rat tibia nerve. Rush University Forum for Research and Clinical Investigation,Chicago IL. Apr, 2002 S Leonelli , Safanda JF, B Goldberg, M Bagwe, S King. The effects of cylcooxygenase (COX-2) inhibitors on bone healing. 34th Annual American Orthopaedics Association/Orthopaedic Education and Research Foundation Residents Conference, Memphis TN. Apr, 2002 Leonelli S, B Goldberg, JF Safanda, M Bagwe, S King. The effect of cylcooxygenase (COX-2) inhibitors on bone healing. Orthopaedic Research Society 48th Annual Meeting, Dallas TX. Feb, 2002 Kerns JM, DF Dubois, JF Safanda, & M Gonzalez. End-to-side bypass grafts in partial lesions of the rat tibia nerve. American Society for Hand Surgery/American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery Annual Meeting, Cancun Mexico. Jan 2002 Kerns JM, JK Sobeski, JF Safanda, & M Gonzalez. Behavioral and structural effects of ganglioside treatment for nerve grafting in the rat. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA 1998.
Publications Slade JF, Taksali S, Safanda J. Combined fractures of the scaphoid and distal radius: a revised treatment rationale using percutaneous and arthroscopic techniques. Hand Clin. 2005 Aug;21(3):427-41 Leonelli SM, Goldberg BA, Safanda J, Bagwe MR, Sethuratnam S, King SJ. Effects of a cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor (rofecoxib) on bone healing. Am J. Orthop. 2006 Feb;35(2):79-84 Kerns JM, Maushte TS, Nagel T, Shott, Safanda J, Gonzalez M. Repair of partial lesions with nerve grafting methods in the reat tibial nerve. J Reconstr Microsurgery. 2005 May;21(4):257-66 Maushte TS, Kerns JM, Huang CC, Shott S, Safanda J, Gonzalex M. Assessment of recoverly following a partial nerve lesion in a rat model. Muscle Nerve. 2004 Nov;30(5):609-17 Sobeski JK, Kerns JM, Safanda J, Shott S, Gonzalez M. Functional and structural effects of GM-1 ganglioside treatment on peripheral nerve grafting in the rat. Microsurgery. 2001;21(3);108-15 Taylor AK, JF Safanda, MZ Fall, KA Lang, CE Hull, I Carpenter, LW Staley, and RJ Hagerman (1993): Molecular predictors of cognitive involvement in female carriers of Fragile X syndrome. JAMA 217(7) 507-513 Hagerman RJ, CE Hull, JF Safanda, I Carpenter, LW Staley, RA O’Connor, C Setdel, K Snow, SN Thibodeau, D Kuhl, DL Nelson, CT Casey, and AT Taylor (1994): High Functioning Fragile X males: demonstration of an unmethylated fully expanded mutation associated with FMR-1 protein expression. Am J Human Genetics 53 A123
Licensure State of California
Back
Home| Appointment by Medical Specialty | Appointment by Physician | Medicare Set-Aside | Life Care Plan | Contact Us | Privacy Statement | Customer Support | © MEDLink SM
|