Physicians from Mount Sinai’s Department of Orthopaedics who provided care included, from left: James N. Gladstone, MD, Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, and Co-Chief of Sports Medicine at The Mount Sinai Hospital; Leesa M. Galatz, MD, Mount Sinai Health System Chair and Mount Sinai Professor in Orthopaedics; Melissa D. Leber, MD, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, and Orthopaedic Surgery; Alexis Chiang Colvin, MD, Chief Medical Officer of the U.S. Tennis Association, and Associate Professor of Sports Medicine; and Shawn Anthony, MD, MBA, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Members of the Mount Sinai Health System’s Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedics were onsite in Flushing Meadows, Queens, providing medical care to tennis players competing at the recent 2016 US Open. Also onsite were Mount Sinai Health System radiologists who used advanced image-viewing workstations to ensure quicker diagnoses of patient injuries. As the exclusive provider of medical services to the United States Tennis Association for the fourth consecutive year, Mount Sinai also develops policies around injury prevention and conducts educational outreach to promote the health benefits of tennis.