Visiting Professor

Mark E. Baratz, MD
Mark Baratz, MD, is a graduate of the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine. He completed a residency in orthopaedic surgery at UPMC and a fellowship in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery at Allegheny General Hospital. Dr. Baratz is Vice Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery and Director of the Hand and Upper Extremity Fellowship Program at UPMC. He was the hand surgery consultant to the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1999 to 2012 and is currently a consultant to the Pittsburgh Penguins and Major League Baseball. Heis the Past-President of the American Association of Hand Surgery. Dr. Baratz has over 100 published articles, book chapters and textbooks. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Hand Surgery and on the Editorial Board for the American and EuropeanJournals of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, HAND and Shoulder & Elbow. Dr. Baratz has been yearly recognized as one of Pittsburgh’s Top Doc’s since 2004. He has been elected to America’s Top Doctor’s, America’s Top Orthopedists, and received the Compassionate Doctor Award. He specializes in the care of high-level athletes, arthroscopy and arthroplasty of the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand, care of arthritis and conditions affecting nerves and blood vessels. Dr. Baratz has extensive experience with the care of pediatric upper extremity conditions.