Dr. Pasquale Petrera, MD
Orthopedic Surgeon
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Physician Profile on Dr. Pasquale Petrera, MD
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Personal Facts
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- Personal Facts:
- Male
- Years Since Graduation: 22
- Professional Status:
- Private Practice - Group/Partnership, Full-Time
- Professional Appointments:
- American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, 1992
- Maryland State Medical Society
- American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, 1997
- Arthritis Foundation
- Wicomico County Medical Society
- Orthopaedic Research and Education
- Publications:
- 1996, Revision Total Hip Arthoplasty and Retroperitoneal Approach to the Iliac Vessels
- 1995, Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty: The Acetabular Component
- 1994, Acute Gouty Arthropathy After Total Knee Arthroplasty
- Awards and Honors:
- 1993, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Award for Outstanding Clinical Reasearch Paper by a Fellow
- 1992, The Clark Award for Outstanding Resident Paper
- Professional Interests:
- Reconstruction of the Arthritic Hip and Knee|Revision of Failed and Painful Total Hip and Total Knee Replacements
- Physician Performs:
- Reconstruction of arthritic hip and knee, Revision of failed & painful hip and total knee replacement
Patient / Medical Philosophy
- Peninsula Orthpaedic Associates, P.A. offers the most experienced and specialized orthopaedic care in the region. The sports medicine physicians at POA are the team physicians for the Delmarva Shorebirds, Salisbury University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Wicomico County high schools as well as other area schools. POA is one of only two Cartilage Restoration Centers in the tri-state area designated by Genzyme Biosurgery and the busiest in the Mid-Atlantic States offering cartilage transplantation and transfers, meniscus (torn cartilage) replacement, and other advanced procedures.
If you have an arthritic joint, the physicians at POA performed over 500 total joint replacements last year alone. POA physicians not only have the most experience in standard total hip and knee replacements and revisions but also perform minimally invasive (small incision) replacements.
For shoulder conditions, our physicians have the most experience in total shoulder replacements in the area and are the first to offer Reverse Total Shoulders for those people without a functioning rotator cuff. For other shoulder conditions, POA physicians are the first in the region to perform totally arthroscopic repairs and no one has done more of these cases.
POA also offers advanced treatment of other conditions including spine and upper extremity disorders by physicians who are fellowship trained in these areas giving them vast experience.
Experience / Training
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- Specialty:
- Orthopedic Surgery
- (HealthGrades has verified that Dr. Pasquale Petrera, MD is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery)
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- Medical School:
- Albany Medical College
Albany, NY 1986 - Internship:
- Albany Medical Center Hospital
Albany, NY 1987 - Residency:
- Albany Medical Center Hospital
Albany, NY 1992 - Fellowship:
- University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 1993 - Undergraduate School:
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 1984 - Professional Status:
- Private Practice - Group/Partnership
Procedure
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Procedure Number per Year (Approximate) Reconstruction of arthritic hip and knee - Revision of failed & painful hip and total knee replacement -
Disciplinary Actions
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HealthGrades has examined disciplinary actions within the last five years from the Office of Inspector General and 50 state medical boards.
HealthGrades could not detect any disciplinary actions for Dr. Pasquale Petrera, MD as of 11/22/2008.
Note: HealthGrades reports on state and federal disciplinary actions (if any) from the pervious five years.
Malpractice History
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HealthGrades did not find any closed malpractice claims for
Dr. Pasquale
Petrera, MD
in the states of .
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