Alejandro Badia, MD, FACS Hand & Upper Extremity Surgeon Table of Contents
About Dr. Alejandro Badia……………………………….3
Awards & Recognitions………………………………..4-5
Speaking Engagements………………………………...6-9
Research & Clinical Articles.…………………………...10
Dr. Badia in the News……………………………….11-12
Badia Hand to Shoulder Center………………………..13
OrthoNOW® Orthopedic Urgent Care Center….….…....14
Celebrity Patients……………………………………….15
Patient Testimonials…………………………………….16
Medical Missions……………………………………….17
Topics…………………………………………………...18
2 About Dr. Alejandro Badia
Alejandro Badia, MD, FACS is an internationally respected hand and upper extremity surgeon and the CEO of Badia Hand to Shoulder Center in Doral, Florida. Dr. Badia graduated from Cornell University and completed his medical degree at NYU. He served as the worldwide president of ISSPORTH and co-founded the globally recognized Miami Anatomical Research and Training Center (M.A.R.C.) and The Surgery Center at Doral, an elite state-of-the-art ambulatory surgery center.
In 2014, his frustration with the health care system sparked the idea for the creation of specialized orthopedic urgent care centers to efficiently assess and treat a range of orthopedic and sports injuries. To that end, he founded OrthoNOW®, the only network of franchised orthopedic urgent care centers in the country with 42 centers slated to open coast to coast in the next five years. , He has revolutionized the delivery of healthcare to patients resulting in better outcomes, less wait times and decreased cost of care.
Dr. Badia, comes from a family of physicians and is a descendant of the founder of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, who was motivated to become a surgeon to help care for people like his grandmother who suffered chronic pain from advanced arthritis with crippling deformities.
Dr. Badia is invested in making a difference. While often in the limelight and a role model for physicians and students around the world, what’s most important to him lies right in his own backyard and that is his patients, his community and his family including proud parents Maria and Cristobal, sister Susana and his two children, Alessia and Alessandro. 3 Awards & Recognitions
• 50+ Innovation Leaders" by MedCity News, 2017 • Entrepreneur-Summit At A Glance, American Dreamer, 2017 • South Florida Business Journal Top 100 Power Leaders in Healthcare, 2017 • Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Healthcare Hero; Healthcare Professional Finalist, 2017 • South Florida Business Journal Top 100 Power Leaders in Healthcare, 2016 • Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Healthcare Hero; Healthcare Professional Finalist, 2016 • Doral Business Council Legacy Award, given to leaders for significant impact on Doral community, 2015 • In Touch Today’s Work Comp Professionals Legacy Award, 2015 • Diversity MBA Magazine Top 100 under 50 Diverse Executive Leaders, 2014 • OrthoNOW named “Top Ten Franchise Opportunity” in healthcare in Entrepreneur magazine, 2014 • South Florida Business Journal Top 100 Power Leaders in Healthcare, 2014 • Honored Professor status, 14th annual Philadelphia Hand Course • Named to 100 Latinos Miami: annual award of most influential Latinos in the Miami community • Named to 45 top US hand surgeons in Becker’s Orthopedic & Spine Review • Miami “Movers and Shakers” of business community, 2009 • Voluntary Clinical Faculty, FIU School of Medicine, Dept. of Surgery • Honorary Faculty, annual Philadelphia Hand Courses, Philadelphia, 2008, 2010 • Honorary full member of orthopedic surgery dept. Omni Hospital, Guayaquil, Ecuador • Editorial Board, Techniques in Hand & Upper Extremity Surgery journal, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Chief editors: Jupiter and Doyle
4 Awards & Recognitions
• Founder, Healthcare Committee, Doral Business Council, Doral, FL 2009 • Founding Member: DaVinci Learning Center, Doral , Florida. Inaugural surgical training course slated for Spring, 07. Renamed Miami Anatomical Research Center (M.A.R.C.) 2009 • Charter Member, Small Bone and Joint Institute, Organizing meeting at Drake Hotel, New York, NY, March 10th, 2005 • VP Surgeon Advisory Board, Small Bone Innovations, NY, NY • Vice-President for Alumni Affairs, Cornell Club of Miami & Florida Keys, 2005-6 • Science and Biomedicine Committee Member, Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce • Cornell Alumni Council, Cornell University. Ithaca, New York. 4 year term commencing July, 2004 • Board Member, Dade County Medical Assn., District 2 representative • Hand trauma rotation coordinator, Mt. Sinai/Hialeah Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program • Arthroscopy Assn. of N. America Faculty- Wrist and Elbow Lab Instructor, 2002 • AO/ASIF Faculty – Hand and Wrist course, Miami Beach, Florida, 2002 • Corresponding International Membership: – Argentinian Society for Surgery of the Hand – Venezuelan Society for Surgery of the Hand – Italian Hand Surgery Society – Peruvian Hand Surgery Society – Peruvian Arthroscopy Association – Colombian Hand Surgery Society – Bolivian Society for Hand Surgery • Alumni Leadership Award for NYU School of Medicine, Boca Raton, Florida, 1999 • AO/ASIF Faculty Member Lab Instructor at AO Hand Course, Marco Island, 1998 • Alpha Epsilon Delta Honor Society – Cornell • COSEP Scholarship and Community Service Awards – Cornell • Avon Products Foundation Scholarship to Cornell University
5 Recent Speaking Engagements
• “Lesiones deportivas de mano y muñeca (hand and wrist sports injuries)” physical therapy congress virtual lecture, Lima, Peru, August 2017
• “Athletic injuries to hand/wrist, elbow arthroplasty, management articular elbow fx, advances in distal radius fx surgery and innovations in upper limb arthroscopy” 3rd annual orthopedic course, Santa Fe, Mexico City, August 2017
• “Update in thumb CMC arthroscopy” EWAS round table symposium, FESSH annual congress, Budapest, Hungary, June 2017
• “OrthoNOW: development of the orthopedic urgent care concept” orthopedic society of Jalisco, Mexico. Arthroscopy and arthroplasty of hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder 6th annual upper limb course (convener Dr. Oscar Orozco) Guadalajara, Mexico, May 2017
• “TM arthroscopy of the thumb”, moderator “wrist session II” ISSPORTH meeting, “update in wrist & hand arthroscopy” Milan, Italy, May 2017
• “Scaphoid fractures, arthroscopic management of shoulder labral lesions, arthroscopy for ulnar sided wrist pain, thumb CMC arthroscopy, total wrist arthroplasty” Mexican orthopedic society- LVII congreso nacional de ortopedia y traumatología - Acapulco, Mexico, April - May 2017
• “Advances in hand & upper limb surgery” no pain rehab clinic, Lima, Peru. “tennis injuries of the wrist, elbow and shoulder” Lima tennis club, January 2017
6 Recent Speaking Engagements
• Spain FESHH conference, June 2016
• OMTEC conference, Chicago, Illinois, June 2016
• Urgent Care Association of America in Orlando, Florida 2016
• “Arthroscopic interposition arthroplasty of radiolunate joint” EWAS presentation during FESSH meeting, Milan, Italy 2015
• “Wrist injuries in high level tennis athletes” presented at 14th STMS world tennis medicine congress, Rome, Italy 2015
• “Management articular fracture sequelae”, “volar plating: a technical overview”, presented at IBRA annual course, Miami, Florida 2015
• “Upper limb post-traumatic reconstruction for arthritis”, “arthroscopy for carpal instability” at international advanced orthopedic conference, Dubai, UAE 2015
• “TFCC injuries in athletes” during Sports Injuries in Weekend Warriors symposium , “maximizing economics in private practice” during Changing Economics of Healthcare Instructional Course during AAHS annual meeting, Nassau, Bahamas 2015
• “Carpal instability and TFCC arthroscopy”, “arthroscopic distal radius and scaphoid Fx Management”, and “update in thumb CMC arthroscopy presented at masters hand and wrist smith and nephew course, Carolina’s medical 7 center, Charlotte, NC 2014 Recent Speaking Engagements
• “Digital injuries in basketball players”, “wrist injuries in tennis players” presented while chairing ISSPORTH symposium in Argentinian society for surgery of the hand sports symposium, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2014
• “PIP fracture dislocations: External Fixator” presented at combined AAHS and AACM meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina 2014
• “Digit injuries in the athlete”, “arthroscopic Management of Skier’s thumb” presented at ISSPORTH symposium within APFSSH congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2014
• “Orthopedic urgent care centers as part of integrated network” in business of hand surgery instructional course, annual ASSH meeting, Boston, Massachusetts 2014
• “Arthroscopy of the thumb CMC joint” at EWAS wrist arthroscopy course and lab faculty at IRCAD cadaver lab course, Barretos, Brazil 2014
• “Sports related hand and upper limb injuries” presented to Goianias hand surgery club, Brasilia, Brazil 2014
8 Recent Speaking Engagements
• “Cirugia de epicondilitis”, “lesiones del biceps distal” y “codo beisbolista” presentado en curso de lesiones deportivas, sociedad Ecuatoriana de ortopedia y traumatologia, Guayaquil, Ecuador 2014
• “Complications of articular PIP fractures” and “technical aspects of volar plate fixation” presented at 6th annual IBRA meeting: trauma and reconstruction of upper limb. Deuville Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida 2014
• “Management of upper limb trauma” and “arthritis reconstruction of hand and upper extremity” presented at annual NACR meeting, Caribbean division of American physical therapy Association, Miami, Florida 2014
• “Arthroscopy option for basal joint arthritis: video presentation at 2014 hand specialty day, annual AAOS meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana 2014
• “ARP Wave technology in management of upper limb problems” presented at 5th anniversary celebration of founding of Caribbean hand centre, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 2014
9 Research & Clinical Articles (Partial List)
• “Perils and pitfalls for comminuted distal radius fractures”. BMC Proceedings, April 2015
• “Functional outcome of arthroscopic assisted fixation of distal radius fractures”. Indian Journal of Orthopaedics, March 2013
• “Arthroscopic indications & technique for artelon interposition arthroplasty of the thumb trapeziometacarpal joint”. Small Bone Innovations, August 2013
• “Corrective osteotomy after damage of the distal radial physics in children”, techniques in hand & upper extremity surgery, December 2011
• “Surgical treatment options for unstable mallet fractures”. Chinese journal of traumatology, August 2011
10 Dr. Badia in the News (Partial List)
• Orthopedics This Week , National Expansion, June 22, 2017
• Mirabel Magazine, Doctor’s Who Own Urgent Cares June 2017
• Northwestern Observer, Carpel Tunnel Syndrome, Summer 2017
• Chief Executive Magazine,,, TrumpCare, May 12, 2017
• Orthopedics This Week, UBER Partnership, May 22, 2016
• Fierce Health,, Health care Twists, May 2, 2016
11 Dr. Badia in the News (Partial List)
• Orlando Sentinel: OrthoNOW® changing healthcare landscape, May 2016
• Miami Herald: CEO Round Table, May 2016
• Franchising USA: OrthoNOW® Franchise Concept, May 2016
• Medical Travel Today: Badia Hand to Shoulder concept, April 2016
• NBC 6 In the Mix: Concussion Baseline Testing, Feb 2016
• Univision: Hand injuries, Feb 2016
• Miami Herald: OrthoNOW® paving a new path in Urgent Care, August 2015
• CNN En Español – Café CNN: Prevention & treatment of sports related injuries, Sept. 2013
12 Dr. Badia is the founder and Medical Director of BADIA HAND TO SHOULDER CENTER in Doral, Florida. This state of the art facility is housed on the ground floor of a medical office building near three major highways in the heart of Doral, the epicenter of Miami-Dade County. It is located close to Miami International Airport (MIA) and local hotels, which facilitates the care of patients from abroad.
His patients have direct access to digital radiographs, MRI imaging, physical and occupational therapy and the most technologically advanced operating rooms available. Virtually all problems related to the hand, wrist, elbow, and shoulder regions are handled at the facility.
Dr. Badia is also the founder and owner of the Surgery Center at Doral, an ambulatory surgery center with multiple sub-specialists, who together manage all musculoskeletal problems, covering the full scope of orthopedic care in one facility. Any orthopedic problem not covered at Badia Hand to Shoulder Center will be referred to the proper sub-specialist in the group.
13 OrthoNOW®, the nation’s only orthopedic urgent care franchise, is focused on assessment and treatment of a range of orthopedic and sports injuries, chronic conditions, and preventative protocols – all on a walk-in basis. Specialties include anything related to the foot, ankle, knee, hip, wrist, hand, elbow, shoulder and spine.
Every OrthoNOW® is equipped with digital imaging equipment and offers the latest techniques and treatments by a team of orthopedic clinicians and orthopedic specialized ancillary providers including Neuro Muscular Therapy which dramatically alleviates acute and chronic pain and expedites recovery time from surgery.
OrthoNOW® recently launched the mobile app v2.0 for iPhone users which features a revolutionary feature called On My Way NOW® which allows patients to notify an OrthoNOW® Center that they are in route, the reason they’re coming and what time they expect to arrive. The recently released upgraded app now includes integration with Uber. OrthoNOW’s flagship center is in Doral, Florida, with franchised Centers in Florida, Georgia and other locations coming soon.
14 Celebrity Patients
• Perrine Delacour - Golfer, ranked #80 in the world • Giovanni Lapentti - Tennis player, ranked #110 in the world • Francesca Schiavone - Tennis player, winner of both the Rio Open and the 2010 French Open • Sania Mirza - Tennis player, ranked #1 doubles • Alisa Kleybanova - Tennis player, ranked #10 in the world • Sebastian Salem - PGA player • Hector Gonzalez - PGA player • Sean Edey - Golfer, Ranked Top Junior Player • Terrell Owens - Wide Receiver for Dallas Cowboys • Agustin Acosta - Radio & TV News Journalist • Lisette and Willy Chirino - Grammy Award winning entertainers
Francesca Schiavone & Dr. Alejandro Badia 15 Patient Testimonials
“I had arthritis of the thumb and pain that didn’t let me sleep at night, and the next thing I know, Dr. Badia fixed that for me. After surgery, I’m able to do all kind of things. I’m very active!” - Sylvia Hitchcock, Former Miss Universe
“I am a tennis professional and required to keep fit at all times. My hand had been bothering me very much for over three weeks with numbness and horrifying spasms. After seeing Dr. Badia, he recommended that I use ARPWave Neuro Therapy. It was simply magical! Not only did it give me instant relief, but my hand hasn't bothered me ever since. If I hadn't met Dr. Badia, I would have definitely ended up with an injury. Thank you Dr. Badia for your amazing help!” - Karan Lalchandani, Professional Tennis Player
“As an airline pilot who has been flying sophisticated aircraft around the world for the past 38 years, I found myself with numbness and pain with my right hand in 2011. After going to several doctors in the Treasure Coast area, Dr. Badia was highly recommended. Dr. Badia diagnosed trigger finger and carpal tunnel and surgery was scheduled within a week. I am now 3 years post op and pain free thanks to Dr. Badia and his very caring staff.” - Eric Perle, Airline Pilot
“Based on the arthroscopy I received last year at Dr. Badia’s center, I’d like to express my gratefulness for the service you and your staff provided me during my whole surgery process. It is clear you have organized a culture with a set of values and skills that characterize the “Badia Hand to Shoulder Center”. I hope this positive feedback reinforces the high standards and service I felt the staff provided me during my stay.
16 Volunteer Work & Support
• Ghana - Orthopedic upper limb surgeries performed at St. Joseph Orthopaedic Hospital, Koforidua, Ghana, north of Accra with Swiss colleague, Dr. Philippe Cuenos, March 2017
• Swim for Haiti event – sponsor, official timekeeper for 10km open ocean swim race, Haiti, February 2017.
• Guatemala – operation healing hands pediatric hand reconstructions, Guatemala City
• Special Olympics supporter- OrthoNOW centers provide free physicals to allow athletic participation sponsor an athlete
17 Topics
Consumer Related: • Physical and Financial Benefits of Urgent Care as an alternative to the ER for individuals and families • Tips on avoiding common sports injuries • Treatment for common sports injuries • Surgical alternatives • When orthopedic surgery is necessary • Osteoporosis and the link to chronic and/or catastrophic disease (Breast, prostate and diabetes) • Blunt force trauma injuries due to assault, attack or terror incident • Celebrities and common injuries • Debunking myths about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and over-use/repetitive motion injuries • Preparing your children for sports what every parent needs to know • Summer camp and sports/playground injuries. • Achieving and maintaining bone health • Weight and Wellness
Business related: • Growth of specialized urgent care centers in USA • Urgent care as an effective an health cared delivery method for employers • The benefits of franchising in-a-box for physicians/surgeons • In bound medical tourism and its effect on the national and local economy • Understanding the cost of orthopedic injuries to employees and community
Medical related: • Orthopedics • Hand and Upper Extremity Injuries – Carpal Tunnel Syndrome – Shoulder Bursitis/Rotator Cuff – Overuse Injuries: Tennis or Golfers Elbow – Upper limb sports injuries • Musculoskeletal Injuries including: – Carpal Tunnel Syndrome/repetitive motion injuries – Back Pain – Arthritis & joint replacements – Stem cell, PRP (Plate Rich Plasma) and Orthobiologics – 3D Printing & Prosthetics • Cutting Edge Techniques • Minimally Invasive Treatments / Arthroscopy 18 • Treating Common Urgent Care Hand Injuries To book Dr. Badia for expert commentary or for other inquires please contact
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