The UAB Department of Orthopaedic Surgery is excited to announce that Ronit Wollstein, M.D., has joined the department as a professor and head of its Hand and Upper Extremity Section.

Wollstein joins us from the New York University School of Medicine Department of Orthopedic Surgery, where she served as an attending in hand surgery.

Wollstein received her medical degree from Hadassah and Hebrew University Medical School in Jerusalem, Israel, where she remained and completed a multispecialty internship, a residency in orthopedic surgery, and a residency in hand surgery. Wollstein went on to complete clinical fellowships in hand surgery at St. Helier NHS Trust in London; the University of Connecticut, Hartford Hospital; and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Wollstein’s major research interests include wrist structure and function relationships, rehabilitation of the wrist, characterizing wrist anatomy as it varies between ethnicities, radiographic guidelines for surgical functional outcome, development of a novel screening tool for osteoporosis, and development of new surgical and conservative tools for treatment of hand conditions.

We look forward to Wollstein’s expertise and the continued success of our Hand and Upper Extremity Section!