Renowned hand and upper limb surgeon, Dr. Alejandro Badia from Miami, visits Freeport

MIAMI, FL – Dr. Alejandro Badia, MD, FACS, and worldrenowned Hand and Upper Limb Surgeon, President of the ISSPOR

TH (International Society for Sport Traumatology of the Hand), returns to Bahamas, this time to Freeport invited for a Medical Conference. Dr. Badia has recently performed three successful surgeries on the renowned biker Guilherme Berg (GUI BERG).

“In 2010, I broke my right collarbone in the middle of the championship and I thought my year was over! I went back to see Dr. Badia, who six months earlier treated successfully my broken right wrist. He scheduled my surgery for the next day in his state of the art facility. One month and a half later I was racing again…. It was one of my best years in motorcycle racing so far; I won the Middleweight and Heavyweight Super Sport class, Middleweight Superbike class, CCS National Race of the Champions!! This year I broke my collarbone again! This time was the left one… Due to last year’s excellent results I went straight back to Dr. Badia’s center “again”. This time the fracture was much worse and still, barely a month later I’m back on the bike! – Affirms Mr. Berg.

Dr. Badia says – “ It is extremely satisfactory when a professional athlete come to see me. It is imperative for them to be appropriately treated, to heal and go back to their intense routine. It is my challenge and my passion to succeed.” – Badia has a long history of treating high level tennis and golf competitors, NFL and NBA athletes. Dr. Badia has just been nominated one of the top 45 great hand and upper extremity surgeons to know by Becker’s Orthopedic & Spine Review. Alejandro Badia is in conversations with leading Brazilian medical authorities to organize a sports medicine conference prior to the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.

Alejandro Badia, MD, FACS is a hand and upper extremity surgeon. He studied physiology at Cornell University and obtained his medical degree at NYU, where he also trained in orthopedics. A hand fellowship at Alleghany General Hospital in Pittsburgh was followed by an AO trauma fellowship in Freiburg, Germany. He runs an active international hand fellowship, serves on the editorial board of two hand journals, and organizes a yearly Miami meeting for surgeons and therapists that are devoted to upper limb arthroscopy and arthroplasty (www.miamihandcourse.com). This international meeting is held at the world-renowned Miami Anatomical Research Center (M.A.R.C.), the world’s largest surgical cadaveric training lab that Dr. Badia co-founded in 2005.

In 2008, he completed the Badia Hand to Shoulder Center, a fully integrated clinical facility for the upper limb encompassing digital radiography, MRI extremity imaging, Integral rehabilitation facility and the Surgery Center in Doral. More recently, Dr. Badia inaugurated OrthoNOW, the first immediateorthopedic care center in South Florida which is staffed by surgeons from the International Orthopedic Group (IOG), a group of surgeons from lower extremity, upper limb and spine subspecialties who also treat elective orthopedic problems in international patients. He is member of the ASSH, AAHS, AAOS as well as honorary member of many foreign hand surgery societies.