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DeHaven Maloney

A passion for helping their fellow athletes recover and return to the
game inspired these Sports Medicine physicians to explore new paths
of care. Kenneth E. DeHaven, MD, popularized arthroscopic surgery
for joint repair in the U.S. in the 1970s. Today Michael D. Maloney,
MD (Res ’97), is testing the potential of biologics to accelerate healing, Burton Mitten
and building a holistic approach to athletes’ training, mindset, and
lifelong health with Fitness Science.
Richard I. Burton, MD (Res ’64), and David J. Mitten (BS ’88, MD ’92,
Res ’97), share a specialty—hand surgery—and a knack for crafting
new solutions to long-standing problems. Burton invented a procedure
for hand arthritis that has become the world standard. Mitten is
exploring how technology—such as machine learning—can facilitate
research and patient care.

Goldstein Mesfin

Louis A. Goldstein (MD ’32, Res ’37), changed the landscape for care
of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis with Harrington Instrumentation, the
first widely used internal fixation system. Addisu Mesfin, MD, associate
professor of Orthopaedics/Public Health Sciences/Neurosurgery and Rosier Schwarz
Spinal Fellowship Director, has earned several international fellowships
that are bringing world-leading surgical approaches to URMC. One
example is en bloc spondylectomy, which he introduced to physicians URMC’s Orthopaedics research grew from nonexistent to the national
and patients in Western New York. forefront thanks to its first director Edward Puzas (MS ’73, PhD ’76);
Randy N. Rosier (MS ’76, MD ’78, PhD ’79), who established the
Center for Musculoskeletal Research; and its current director
Edward Schwarz, PhD, the Richard and Margaret Burton Distinguished
Professor in Orthopaedics whose leadership has kept CMSR among
the top five NIH-funded centers for more than a decade.

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