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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


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