January 06, 2014

TriHealth welcomes Hand Surgery Specialists Inc., a group of nine board-certified, experienced hand surgeons and their 70 team members to our organization. The practice will now be known as TriHealth Hand Surgery Specialists and will join the TriHealth Orthopedic and Spine Institute. The group will continue see patients at 10 locations. 

The hand surgeons joining TriHealth include Peter Stern MD, John McDonough MD, Thomas Kiefhaber MD, Paul Fassler MD, T. Greg Sommerkamp MD, Daniel Reilly MD, Andrew Markiewitz MD, Andrew Cross MD, and Benjamin Kleinhenz MD.

Current patients of TriHealth Hand Surgery Specialists will continue to see their same physicians and will now benefit from a comprehensive range of services available in our system, including primary care and specialty physicians.

"We look forward to working with TriHealth to improve patient care while continuing our mission of educating residents and hand surgery fellows and advancing the science of hand surgery through research," said Dr. Kiefhaber, one of the three founding members of Hand Surgery Specialists.

"Our group provides high quality, specialty care for our patients and works closely with hand therapists to maximize patients' results and outcomes. In addition, we run the nationally respected Mary S. Stern Hand Surgery Fellowship where three individuals a year receive advanced training in hand and micro vascular surgery."

TriHealth Hand Surgery Specialists uses both surgical and non-surgical approaches to treat all problems of the hand and upper extremity. The physicians serve approximately 25,000 outpatient visits each year, using the most up-to-date technology available.

Each of the surgeons in the group completed specialty training in hand and micro vascular surgery through a hand surgery fellowship, which was completed after their orthopedic or general surgery training.

• Learn more about Hand Surgery Specialists, our services and physicians in the practice at trihealth.com/institutes-and-services/hand-surgery/.