Amy Ladd

Clinical Focus

• Hand Surgery
• Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery
• Orthopaedic Surgery

Administrative Appointments

• Head of Outreach, SUMMIT (Stanford University Medical Media Information Technologies) (2001 - 2004)
• Chief of the Children's Hand Clinic, Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (1991 - 2004)
• Chief, Hand and Upper Extremity Section, Department of Surgery, Palo Alto VA Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA (1990 - 1998)

Honors and Awards

• Woman of Achievements award, San Jose Mercury News & Women’s Fund (1997)
• Outstanding Faculty Physician Award, Cowell Student Health Center, Stanford University (1998)
• Sterling Bunnell Traveling Fellowship, American Society for Surgery of the Hand (2000-2001)
• Poster Exhibit Award, Best Scientific Content Honorable Mention, American Society for Surgery of the Hand Annual Meeting (2003)
• Iris Litt Fund, Instititute for Women & Gender at Stanford (2004)

Professional Education

• Fellowship: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA
• Board Certification: Orthopedic Surgery, American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (1992)
• Residency: University of Rochester School of Medicine, NY (1989)
• Internship: Pacific Medical Center,Seattle, (1986)
• Medical Education: SUNY Upstate Medical University, NY (1984)

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Orthopedic Surgery

Community & International Work

• Interplast, VIetnam 

Web Site Links

• Stanford Hand Surgery

Research Interests

1. Bone Graft substitutes promise better treatment for orthopaedic problems. The current and future substitutes are subject of ongoing research.

2. Calcium phosphate bone cement is a bone substitute with mechanical properties similar to cancellous bone.

3. Congenital anomalies of the upper limb pose challenging treatment dilemmas, with the goal of both functional and cosmetic improvement.

4. Spinal cord injured patients benefit from tendon transfers to restore function, however small, in the paralyzed limb.

5. The malunited wrist fracture poses a complex treatment problem, but in selected cases benefits from reconstructive surgery.

Publications

• Muscle moment arms in the first dorsal extensor compartment after radial malunion. A cadaver study. LaRoque ES, Murray WM, Langley S, Hariri S, Levine BP, Ladd AL "J Bone Joint Surg Am" 2008 ; 9 (90) : 1979-87
• Reprint of diagnostic imaging of the shoulder. Ladd AL, "J Hand Ther" 2007 Apr-Jun ; 2 (20) : 202-8; quiz 209
• Initial evaluation of a shoulder arthroscopy simulator: establishing construct validity. Srivastava S, Youngblood PL, Rawn C, Hariri S, Heinrichs WL, Ladd AL "J Shoulder Elbow Surg" 2004 Mar-Apr ; 2 (13) : 196-205
• Evaluation of a surgical simulator for learning clinical anatomy. Hariri S, Rawn C, Srivastava S, Youngblood P, Ladd A "Med Educ" 2004 ; 8 (38) : 896-902
• Magnetic resonance imaging in diagnosis of chronic posterolateral rotatory instability of the elbow. Grafe MW, McAdams TR, Beaulieu CF, Ladd AL "Am J Orthop" 2003 ; 10 (32) : 501-3; discussion 504