Paul Harrington (who designed the Harrington rod for scoliosis treatment), Jesse Dixon (an associate of Dr.
Hoppenfeld spent time with spine surgeons who also specialized in scoliosis such as Drs. Basically, he created his own traveling fellowship after he left residency.”ĭr. “He decided he was going to pursue his own fellowship, in the days before fellowships were really done or common. “Hoppy had a style about him,” Baron Lonner MD, director of the Scoliosis and Spine Associates, told CORR. He finished his orthopaedic residency in 1964 at the Hospital for Joint Diseases. Hoppenfeld went on to the Chicago Medical School, earning his medical degree in 1959. After completing his undergraduate degree at Hobart College (now Hobart and William Smith Colleges) in Geneva, NY, USA, in 1955, Dr. Hoppenfeld was born July 31, 1934, in New York, NY, USA. “Stan used his anatomic knowledge to teach people to go between muscles and nervous planes, so that you could very much cut blood loss down and minimize patient morbidity,” Dr. “We just slashed and cut based on what mentors said and what they had seen.” The blood loss could be considerable with these older techniques, he said. “When I was a resident years ago … we didn’t have the Hoppenfeld approaches,” Dr. The book has dramatically changed spine surgery worldwide, said Rick Buckley MD, coauthor of the 4th, 5th, and the soon-to-be-released 6th editions. “Although the book has evolved over time, the system has remained consistent. “If you were to ask 10 orthopaedic surgeons to name one textbook that would be considered ‘the classic,’ I would venture nearly all would say it is this one.”įirst published in 1984, Surgical Exposures in Orthopaedics: The Anatomic Approach has remained a best seller in the field, according to Piet de Boer MD, who coauthored the text. Leopold MD, Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research ®. “Every orthopaedic surgeon I know was brought up on this textbook,” said Seth S. The simple descriptions of surgical approaches paired with illustrations from the surgeon’s perspective have made Surgical Exposures in Orthopaedics: The Anatomic Approach a mainstay for orthopaedic surgeons. Stanley Hoppenfeld MD (right) and Rick Buckley MD (left).
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