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

• Board Certification: Hand Surgery, American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (1994)
• Board Certification: Orthopaedic Surgery, American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (1992)
• Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School MA
• University of Rochester School of Medicine (1989) NY
• Pacific Medical Center,Seattle (1986)
• SUNY Upstate Medical University (1984) NY
• AB, Dartmouth College History (1980)
• MD, SUNY Upstate Medical University Medicine (1984)

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Orthopedic Surgery

Community & International Work

• Interplast, VIetnam More »

Web Site Links

• Stanford Hand Surgery

Industry Relationships

Stanford is committed to ethical and transparent interactions with our industry partners. It is our policy to disclose payments of $5,000 or more, equity valued at $5,000 or more in a publicly traded company, or any equity in a privately held company, to physicians and scientists employed by Stanford University from companies or other commercial entities with which they interact as part of their professional activities. 

• Consulting: Acumed LLC

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

• Upper-limb evolution and development: skeletons in the closet. Congenital anomalies and evolution's template. Ladd AL,  J Bone Joint Surg Am.  2009; 91 Suppl 4 19-25
• 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; 90 (9): 1979-87
• Reprint of diagnostic imaging of the shoulder. Ladd AL,  J Hand Ther.  2007 Apr-Jun; 20 (2): 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; 13 (2): 196-205
• Evaluation of a surgical simulator for learning clinical anatomy. Hariri S,  Rawn C, Srivastava S, Youngblood P, Ladd A.  Med Educ.  2004; 38 (8): 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; 32 (10): 501-3; discussion 504
• The effect of pronation and supination on the minimally displaced scaphoid fracture. McAdams TR,  Spisak S, Beaulieu CF, Ladd AL.  Clin Orthop Relat Res.  2003; (411): 255-9
• Reconstruction of the hand in Apert syndrome: a simplified approach. Chang J,  Danton TK, Ladd AL, Hentz VR.  Plast Reconstr Surg.  2002; 109 (2): 465-70; discussion 471
• The role of bone graft and alternatives in unstable distal radius fracture treatment. Ladd AL,  Pliam NB.  Orthop Clin North Am.  2001; 32 (2): 337-51, ix
• Use of bone-graft substitutes in distal radius fractures. Ladd AL,  Pliam NB.  J Am Acad Orthop Surg.  1999 Sep-Oct; 7 (5): 279-90
• Biomechanical evaluation of fixation of intra-articular fractures of the distal part of the radius in cadavera: Kirschner wires compared with calcium-phosphate bone cement. Yetkinler DN,  Ladd AL, Poser RD, Constantz BR, Carter D.  J Bone Joint Surg Am.  1999; 81 (3): 391-9
• MR arthrography of the wrist: scanning-room injection of the radiocarpal joint based on clinical landmarks. Beaulieu CF,  Ladd AL.  AJR Am J Roentgenol.  1998; 170 (3): 606-8
• Reconstructive Osteotomy for Malunion of the Distal Radius. Symposium on Problem Fractures of the Hand and Wrist AL Ladd and DS Huene,  Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.  1996; 327 158-171
• Functional Restoration of the Upper Extremity in Tetraplegia" in Surgery of the Hand and Upper Extremity Vincent Hentz, Amy Ladd,  -.  1996;
• Surgical treatment and postoperative splinting of recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. Ladd AL,  Kibele A, Gibbons S.  J Hand Surg Am.  1996; 21 (5): 888-97
• Reconstructive osteotomy for malunion of the distal radius. Ladd AL,  Huene DS.  Clin Orthop Relat Res.  1996; (327): 158-71
• Diagnostic imaging of the shoulder. Ladd AL,  J Hand Ther.  1994 Apr-Jun; 7 (2): 84-9
• Dupuytren's contracture: MR imaging findings and correlation between MR signal intensity and cellularity of lesions. Yacoe ME,  Bergman AG, Ladd AL, Hellman BH.  AJR Am J Roentgenol.  1993; 160 (4): 813-7