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HEALING WITH A "HUMAN ELEMENT"
About Vincent M. Santoro, MD
Prior to establishing Eastside Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Dr. Santoro was
partner at Bellevue Orthopedic Associates. He is a Board certified member of
the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, the Arthroscopy Association of
North America and the Orthopedic Trauma Association.
Dr. Santoro graduated from medical school at the University of Connecticut in
Farmington, CT. He completed his residency at the University of Connecticut
Orthopedic Residency Program.
From 1989-90, he completed a trauma and reconstruction fellowship at
Harborview-University of Washington.
In 1990 he returned to Connecticut and became a Senior Partner at Orthopedic
Associates of Hartford and Associate Clinical Professor at the University of
Connecticut where he worked until 2002. There his activities included private
practice at the Orthopedic Associates of Hartford, serving as Chief of
Orthopedic Trauma (1990-'98) and Chief of Outpatient Surgery (1998-'02).
In 1992 he was the Jack McDaniel Fellow in Orthopedic Reconstruction at the
University of Berne in Berne, Switzerland. There he learned from Europeans
masters on State of the Art surgery of the shoulder, hip, knee and foot and
ankle.
In 2001 Dr. Santoro received the Harry R. Gossling Award as Teacher of the Year
from the University of Connecticut Orthopedic Residents.
Away from the operating room, Dr. Santoro has been a teacher for the AO, which
teaches international fracture techniques, and has routinely given lectures on
a wide variety of topics in orthopedic surgery to residents and colleagues,
insurance companies, worker's compensation panels and the Connecticut Bar
Association. Several of his articles have been published in peer-reviewed
journals.
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