Andrew J. Weiland, MD

Dr. Weiland is currently a Professor of Surgery (Orthopaedics and Plastic Surgery) at Cornell University Medical College in New York and is an attending orthopaedist at the Hospital for Special Surgery. He did his under graduate work at Colby College in Waterville, Maine and, then, graduated from Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest Univesity in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Dr. Weiland did his post graduate training at the University of Michigan and completed his orthopaedic training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He then completed a hand fellowship at the Kleinert Institute in Louisville, Kentucky as well as an ASIF fellowship in internal fixation under the direction of Professor Hans Willenegger.

Following his extensive training, Dr. Weiland became Director of the Division of Upper Extremity Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland from 1975-1989. In 1981, Dr. Weiland was awarded an A.B.C. traveling fellowship. In 1990, he joined the faculty of Cornell University Medical College and the Hospital for Special Surgery. Over the years he has been a visiting professor at national and international venues.

Dr. Weiland has authored numerous articles and chapters in the field of hand surgery and vascularized bone grafts.He has been the recipient of the Kappa Delta Award in 1986 for Outstanding Orthopaedic Research, and, in 1991, recevied the award for outstanding paper presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He is currently on the editorial boards of many peer reviewed journals and is the Editor in Chief of Techniques in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery as well as past President of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and past President of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery. In 1998-1999 he was the President of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery as well as President of the American Orthopaedic Association