Dr. Malone is the Chief of Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, as well as an Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Dr. Malone completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame in 1995; completed his medical degree at the University of Cincinnati in 2001; completed residency in orthopedic surgery at William Beaumont Hospital in 2006; and then completed a Hand and Microvascular Surgery Fellowship at the University of Washington Harborview Medical Center in 2007, after which he returned to Cleveland to start his practice.
Dr. Malone is also on the consulting medical staff for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League, and is an investigator on a DARPA funded project to develop an advanced sensory neuroprosthesis for upper extremity amputees.
Please enjoy with Dr. Kevin Malone!
Selected Show Notes
WALANT (wide awake local anesthesia no tourniquet) technique.
American Society for Surgery of the Hand.
Dr. Malone’s University Hospitals page.
Book:
For a list of all book recommendations made on the show, see the TUMS Resources page.
Really good – as a final year Med student in the UK there was a huge amount to draw from this!
– hand patients don’t want to have to take time off work/life
– WALANT
– your hand surgeon microvascular skills can come in handy in trauma all over the body
– hand surgery is ‘quality of life medicine’