Todd Albert, M.D.: New Role at ABJS

Todd J. Albert, M.D., FACS, recently named Surgeon-in-Chief and Medical Director at Hospital for Special Surgery, has another new role. Dr. Albert has been named a board member of The Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons, and will serve as the editor’s voting representative, according to the July 14, 2014 edition of AAOS Now.

Dr. Albert graduated from University of Virginia School of Medicine and completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital where he was named outstanding chief resident. He completed a spine fellowship at the Minnesota Spine Center.

Dr. Albert also serves as the chairman of the department of orthopedic surgery and professor of orthopedic surgery at Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Albert serves on the boards of several scholarly journals and is past president of The Cervical Spine Research Society and past chair of The International Meeting of Advanced Spinal Techniques (IMAST) for the Scoliosis Research Society. He is the author of seven books and more than 40 book chapters, and published 300 peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed articles.

Dr. Albert told OTW, “I am honored to become a member of this prestigious Board for one of the most respected journals in our field. I view my role as helping to foster intellectual creativity and growth that has been the hallmark of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research for many decades.”