Dr. Alejandro Badia, President of ISSPORTH, attends Cayman Islands Healthcare Conference

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands - Oct. 17, 2013 - PRLog -- Dr. Alejandro Badia, MD, FACS, and world-renowned Hand & Upper Limb Surgeon, President of the ISSPORTH (International Society for Sport Traumatology of the Hand), arrives to Grand Cayman to attend the Cayman Islands Healthcare Conference at The Ritz Carlton. He is taking this opportunity to attend a breakfast with colleagues, to have one-on-one chats with patients at “Cayman Physiotherapy” on Thursday, 17^th of October, 2013 and to meet with Shetty Hospital representatives.

“I’m so pleased to be in beautiful Grand Cayman. My mission is to create synergy and learning discussions with my colleagues about the latest technologies in minimally invasive procedures to provide our patients with better healthcare and a faster recovery methods and options. This approach also helps insurance companies save money while providing patients with the best medical service”.–states Dr. Badia. Badia has successfully performed surgery on many professional athletes from Cayman Islands.

Badia has a long history of treating high-level tennis, polo and golf competitors, NFL and NBA athletes. Dr. Badia was nominated in 2012 as “one of the top 45 great hand and upper extremity surgeons” by Becker’s Orthopedic & Spine Review. Alejandro Badia is in conversations with leading Brazilian medical authorities to organize a sports medicine conference prior to the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.

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Alejandro Badia, MD, FACS is a hand and upper extremity surgeon. He studied physiology at Cornell University and obtained his medical degree at NYU, where he also trained in orthopedics. A hand fellowship at Alleghany General Hospital in Pittsburgh was followed by an AO trauma fellowship in Freiburg, Germany. He runs an active international hand fellowship, serves on the editorial board of two hand journals, and organizes a yearly Miami meeting for surgeons and therapists that are devoted to upper limb arthroscopy and arthroplasty (www.miamihandcourse.com). This international meeting is held at the world-renowned Miami Anatomical Research Center (M.A.R.C.), the world’s largest surgical cadaveric training lab that Dr. Badia co-founded in 2005.

In 2008, he completed the Badia Hand to Shoulder Center, a fully integrated clinical facility for the upper limb encompassing digital radiography, MRI extremity imaging, Integra rehabilitation facility and the Surgery Center at Doral. More recently, Dr. Badia inaugurated OrthoNOW, the first immediate orthopedic care center in South Florida which is staffed by surgeons from the International Orthopedic Group (IOG), a group of surgeons from lower extremity, upper limb and spine subspecialties who also treat elective orthopedic problems in international patients. He is member of the ASSH, AAHS, AAOS as well as honorary member of many foreign hand surgery societies.

Dr. Alejandro Badia can be reached via www.drbadia.com, a patient education portal and website for hand surgeon academic exchange. For a Miami appointment please call 786-245-0590 or email alejandro@drbadia.com