Tom Minas, MD
Dr. Minas is an Attending Orthopedic Surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Director of the Cartilage Repair Center. He is a National and International leader in his work on cartilage repair and his expertise with autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI). He also performs arthroscopic surgery of the knee and hip, joint preserving osteotomies, unicompartmental knee replacements, patellofemoral joint replacements, as well as total joint arthroplasty to the knee and hip.
Dr. Minas completed two Fellowships:
- In Pelvis & Acetabulum, Trauma and Joint Reconstruction, at the Sunnybrook Medical Centre, Toronto, Canada
- In total joint arthroplasty in the Department Orthopedic Surgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Dr. Minas has a strong focus on joint preservation in the young adult, by primarily developing and assessing cartilage repair and osteotomy techniques. He has performed two of the only ACI’s in the hip joint in the United States and he has also performed over 400 ACI’s. He has also designed an interpositional device (Conformis) and patellofemoral joint prosthesis to help osteoarthritic patients avoid a total knee replacement.
For More information on Dr. Minas and the work he has done with ACI and osteotomies you can also visit his personal website at: cartilagerepaircenter.org
To reach Dr. Minas’s office please contact his assistant Jeannette at 617-732-9967 x 5 or by email at jvannan@partners.org
To make an appointment to see Dr. Minas please call 617-732-5322.
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