Craig Levitz, MD

Orthopaedics

Weekend Warriors. You probably know someone who plays in a Softball, Basketball, Flag Football, or other adult recreational/ sports league...these are weekend warriors. Men and women who just are not ready to give up sports. Well just like their professional counterparts, with these sports come injuries and one of the common injuries in sports are knee injuries, especially to the ligaments (ACL/ MCL).

Dr. Craig Levitz, director of Sports Medicine and chairman of the Department of Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery at South Nassau Communities Hospital joins the show to discuss repairing the weekend warrior!

Craig Levitz, MD, is director of Sports Medicine and chairman of the Department of Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery at South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanisde, NY. Dr. Levitz is recognized for his work with amateur, college and professional athletes and has more than a decade of experience in orthopedic surgery, sports medicine, and research. He has served as the Team Physician for schools at the secondary and higher education level, including Auburn University and the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as PGA Tour Physician, Spring Training Medical Staff Member for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Cincinnati Reds and Team Physician for the Birmingham Barons AA Professional Baseball Team and Birmingham Bulls Professional Hockey Team. He is currently a Member of the Major League Baseball Panel of Physicians. Before joining South Nassau’s medical staff, Dr. Levitz served in a variety of capacities for various medical group practices, hospitals, schools and sports medicine institutions. Directly following his residency, he was selected among hundreds of applicants for a fellowship with Dr. James R. Andrews, the internationally renowned and respected sports medicine surgeon. Also, among his earliest roles was as a Fellow for the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, AL and as a Resident and Assistant Clinical Instructor in the Department of Orthpaedic Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Board Certified in Orthopaedic Surgery and Diplomate of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS), Dr. Levitz is a member of the Arthroscopic Association of North America and the American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine (AOSSM). In addition to his medical field affiliations, Dr. Levitz has served on the Scientific Advisory Boards of leading corporations such as Oratec Interventions and Smith and Nephew Orthopaedics. Hhe has served as a National Institute of Health (NIH) Research Fellow for both the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Department of Human Genetics and Molecular Biology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, as well as a Merck Research Fellow within the Department of Endocrinology at Merck and Co. in Rahway, NJ.

Dr. Derrick DeSilva

10 / 27 / 2009