The Emory system is home to a myriad of hospitals with a wide breadth of various pathologies and a diverse patient population. Each hospital and outpatient center offers a different experience to the fellow who, upon culmination of the fellowship, will have enjoyed complete access to the wide range of hand and upper extremity pathologies. To further delineate the exposure the program will offer, each hospital and outpatient center is listed with its relative subset of patients and maladies. It should be noted that Atlanta is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. with a diverse group of people representing numerous nationalities and socioeconomic roots. As a tertiary facility, Emory sees patients of all ages, races, and creeds, providing complete exposure to all types of hand and upper extremity pathologies.
Emory Upper Extremity Center at Executive Park
This center is part of the primary location for the
Emory Orthopaedic and Spine Hospital/Emory University Hospital (EUOSH)
This hospital is a specialty hospital that sees a high volume of
Grady Trauma Center
This Level 1 trauma system represents one of the busiest trauma centers in the country. This will be the primary location where fellows will take
The Atlanta Veterans Hospital
The system and faculty also practice at the Atlanta Veterans Hospital, which takes care of more than 130,000 veterans. The hand service here is one of the only specialty hand services for the entire southeastern portion of the country. As such, the service sees patients with acute, subacute, and often chronic conditions that plague the military population. This VA also houses a minor procedure room where we practice wide-awake local anesthesia with no tourniquet (WALANT). This minor procedure room allows fellows to see and perform cases in an efficient manner.
The Hand and Upper Extremity Center of Georgia
Dr. John Seiler and his colleagues have established a large private practice referral center with one of Atlanta’s longest and richest histories. Here, fellows are exposed to a private practice model with leaders in the field of hand surgery who take care of a wide variety of hand and upper extremity pathologies. The outpatient building and hospital will allow fellows to see
Children’s Hospital of Atlanta (CHOA) and Shepherd Center
Drs. Allan Peljovich and Erika Templeton have busy and complex congenital and pediatric pathologies, performing surgeries from brachial plexus reconstruction to congenital hand reconstruction. The volume and breadth of cases
It should be noted that all of these hospitals are conveniently located within driving distance of one another. Although the fellows have multiple options for living locations, please see our list of recommended neighborhood locations, as these allow fellows to be no farther than a 20-minute drive from each of the hospital and clinic locations (in fact, 5-10 minutes in most cases).