Dr. S. Robert Rozbruch

S. Robert Rozbruch, MD, specializes in orthopedic surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York, where he has served since 2005 as chief of the Limb Lengthening and Complex Reconstruction Service.

Dr. Rozbruch is also the director of the HSS Limb Salvage and Amputation Reconstruction Center and an attending orthopedic surgeon at the hospital. He cares for patients of all ages.

He surgically treats a diverse range of orthopedic conditions — from arm- and leg-length discrepancies, birth defects, and bowed legs to trauma, “knock knees,” and dwarfism-related issues.

Dr. Rozbruch performs a number of highly specialized surgeries and techniques. They include his pioneering limb-lengthening techniques; other types of adult and pediatric limb lengthening and deformity corrections; osseointegration amputation reconstruction; and joint preservation and realignment, including ankle-distraction arthroplasty, reconstruction surgery using the Ilizarov technique, limb-deformity correction, and fracture-repair surgery.

“Our goal is to restore people’s bodies and quality of life by employing the most advanced, evidence-based surgical tools and techniques available to us,” Dr. Rozbruch says.

Outside of his clinical practice, Dr. Rozbruch is a professor of clinical orthopedic surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.

Dr. Rozbruch earned his medical degree — with honors in research — at Weill Cornell Medical College. He completed an orthopedic surgery residency at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, an AO trauma fellowship at Switzerland’s University of Bern, and further training in adult and pediatric limb lengthening at the Maryland Center for Limb Lengthening & Reconstruction (now the International Center for Limb Lengthening) in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dr. Rozbruch is a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the Orthopaedic Trauma Association, and the Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society (LLRS), which he led from 2012-2013.

He edited the textbooks Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Surgery and Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Surgery Case Atlas (Trauma, Foot and Ankle; Pediatric Deformity; and Adult Deformity, Tumor, Upper Extremity).

Dr. Rozbruch lectures about his clinical and research work nationally and internationally. He has authored more than 150 articles in medical journals and chapters in orthopedic textbooks.