Michelle G. Carlson, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. She specializes in treating hand and upper extremity conditions, with an emphasis on sports-related hand injuries, hand disorders in women and neurologic injuries in the upper extremity.
She is the founder and director of the Hospital for Special Surgery's Children and Adolescent Hand and Arm Center. She serves as an associate professor of clinical orthopedic surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, also in New York City. She has won several awards, including Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society-Zimmer Research Grant, Lewis Clark Wagner Award and T. Campbell Thompson Prize.
Dr. Carlson earned her medical degree at Weill Cornell Medical College. She went on to perform residency training at Hospital for Special Surgery, where she also completed an upper extremity and microvascular surgery fellowship.
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