Roy M. Nuzzo, M. D.
Board Certified in Orthopedic Surgery Fellow of the American Academy of
Orthopedic Surgery Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America Orthopedic Research Society
Recent Awards:
Physician of the Year June 18, 2003 Jointly by The New Jersey Pediatric Society and by the
Children's Emergency Medical Fund of New Jersey
Physician of the Year - Spirit of Life Award November 22, 2003 Spina Bifida Tristate Association
Christopher Reeves Humaintarian Award - 2005
National Association of Poetry Therapy Humanitarian Award (a one time only award) 2005
A Castle Connolly 'Top Doctor' multiple times incl. 2005-2006
Education:
Rutgers University - B.A. - 1962-1966 (4yr) Pre-med Biology, Chemistry,
Humanities Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society Phi Beta Kappa Summa Cum Laude
Begin USN reserves (8yrs)
Cornell University Medical College - M.D. - 1966-1970 (4yr) Clinical: New
York Hospital Hospital for Special Surgery Sloan Kettering Hospital North Shore Hospital Bellevue Hospital Payne Whitney Hospital Roosevelt Hospital
Yale Medical School - Surgical Residency - 1970-1972 (2yr) Yale New Haven Hospital & Memorial Surgical Residency & Pediatrics West Haven V. A. Hospital - General, Vascular and Chest Surgery
Harvard Medical School - Combined Orthopaedic Residency - 1972-1975.5 (3.5yr)
Massachusetts General Hospital - Hand Surgery Pediatric Orthopaedics Trauma &
Reconstructive Surgery Tumor Surgery
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital - Hand
Surgery Trauma & Reconstructive Surgery Tumor Surgery
Robert Breck Brigham Hospital
Rheumatic Diseases Hand Reconstructive Surger
Eunice Shriver Foundation Hospital (Fernold)
- Childrens' Orthopaedics Metabolic & Genetic Diseases Birth Defects
West Roxbury V.A. Spinal Trauma Center and Spinal Cord Injury Service & Research on Walking Disorders
Brockton V.A. Hospital Orthopaedic problems associated with drug abuse & psychiatric illness
Childrens Hospital Medical Center,
Boston Childrens Orthopedics: Childrens Hand Surgery Birth Defects Scoliosis Spina Bifida Cerebral Palsy Muscle Diseases Osteogenesis Imperfecta Leg Length Inequality Hemophilia
Research :
Rehabilitation Engineering and Research Center
(2yr) Harvard + Massachusetts Institute of Technology in associated with Childrens Hospital Medical Center and The Combined Harvard Orthopaedics Program, Boston-
Motion Analysis of Walking Disorders in Childrens' Diseases
Developed The Harvard / MIT Automated Computer Motion Analysis System
Awards, Motion Analysis System : Harvard Orthopaedic, `Best Research 1975'
Named by NY Times as one of the ten best inventions of the decade.
United States Naval Regional Medical Center Norfolk, Virginia 1975.5-1977.5 (2yr) Service Area South of Washington D.C. North of Puerto
Rico From East coast and west to Mississippi Portions of Italy & Spain
Population: Military Military connected Public health facilities & aligned childrens
hospitals & services Referral Center
Director of Childrens' Orthopedics Organizer of Childrens'
Orthopedics Residency Director of Spina Bifida Clinics Director of Muscular Dystrophy and Neuromuscular Clinics Director of Newborn Nursery Orthopedics (24/day) Director of Cerebral
Palsy Clinics Director of Scoliosis Clinics
Director of Clinics
for Birth Defects Childrens Hand Surgery Scoliosis Clinic Leg Length Inequality General Childrens Orthopedics and Skeletal Trauma Combined clinics > 250 children/day
Research: Developed Low Cost Plastic Orthotic Facility Using Industrial Methods - presented to
SOMOS
(Society Of Military Orthopedic Surgeons)
Organized & Conducted the first U.S. Government Study of arthroscopy with a comparative study of arthrography
Developed the military design for arthroscopic devices using fiber optics
Awards:
U.S. Government Line Military Commendation
for Excellence & Development of Services Signed by the Admiral of the Atlantic Fleet
Children's Specialized Hospital - Chief of Orthopedics, 1978 - 1990
Developer of: Video Based Motion Analysis
System Gait Analysis & Research Laboratory Developed an In-house low cost orthotics department Childrens Complex Orthopedic Problems
Clinics Scoliosis & Leg Length Inequality Paralytic and Muscular Diseases Supervisor of candidates
(affiliated with NJIT, Rutgers) Bioengineering and Computer Engineering Masters and PhD degree research (Projects based
at CSH)
Staff Positions: (since 1978)
Overlook Hospital, Summit, New Jersey Children's Medical
Center of Overlook Hospital Medical Director Pediatric Orthopedic Center for multiple handicaps Children's
Neuromuscular Center - Atlantic Health Services NYU Medical Center, NYC, N.Y.& Hospital for Joint Diseases, NYC, N.Y.
Prior Director Spina Bifida Clinic Member of Hemophilia Treatment Group
Director Pediatric Orthopedics Pediatric Neuromuscular Disorders - Seton Hall University 1995-2005 School of Graduate
Medical Education Pediatric Orthopedics - St. Joseph's Hospital, Paterson, New Jersey
Private Practice: Prior : Westfield Orthopedic Group,
Westfield, New Jersey. Family Orthopedics P.C., Summit, New Jersey Currently : Pediatric
Orthopedics P.C., Summit, New Jersey
Community Involvements: Member: Task Force - Developmental Disabilities - Department of
Developmental Disabilities, State of New Jersey Round Table & Advisory : Department of Consumer Affairs + New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners
formulation of legal limitations on self referral practices corporate implications, patient effects, abuses
Trustee: Spina Bifida Association, N.J. Handicap Riders Association Union County
Educational Services Foundation (Ret.) Academy of Medicine of New Jersey
OTHER SIMULTANEOUS & PRIOR ACTIVITIES :
Computer science: Statistical Analysis of Medication Effects on Cancer
Chemotherapy Patients (Sloan Kettering 1966-68)
Multiple Computer Design and Modeling Projects Dealing with Medical and Othopedic Problems (see specifics)
Sculptor - wood, stone, ceramic
Painter - oils and pencil
Medical Artist
- collaboration and illustration of numerous medical articles, texts, & laboratory guides.
Examples: American Academy of Orthopedics Teaching Slides
on Anterior spinal Fusion and Instrumentation with John Hall, M.D.
Scoliosis and Other Deformities of the Axial Skeleton
- Medical textbook: Riseborough, Herndon.
Laboratory Endocrinology: Strausser
Multiple Articles and Slide Series for: Harris: Hip reconstructive surgical methods Pappas: Pelvic reconstruction for hip
disease in children Hall: Anterior reconstruction of the cervical
spine Mankin: Allograft joint replacement for tumo
INVENTIONS :
- The first computer generated drawings of camera observed human walking
The first 3D / 4D computer generated stick figures of human walking
- (Award winning project, computer analysis of high speed film
captured human walking, normal and abnormal. Numerical reconstruction and graphic representation as
graphs and figures with 3D image manipulation. Developed the core graphical computer methods for terminal user display and manipulation of acquired data).).
Harvard: Rehabilitation Engineering and Research Center.
Aramid cross linking chemistry, polymer research. Employing capped epoxy
radicals in plasma-vacuum field. + R.G. Nuzzo, PhD
Other materials research related to plastics and metal adhesion and brace & cast related materials.
ADAM splint
(Adjustable Digital And Metacarpal splint) A common splint system for treatment of severe and lesser hand, finger, and thumb injuries -
CUSHION HEEL SHOE- for casts, from 3M company. Allows normal gait during cast wearing.
WACH shoe. (Wedge
Adjustable Cushion Heel shoe) for complex adaptation to more difficult injury cast situations. Allows conservative (nonsurgical) treatment of Achilles rupture without loss of function or work or
sport time.
Cross Hair digitizer for NTSC computer analysis.
A modification of a computer inline crosshair system for simultaneous use with live and recorded video.
Functional design of
numerous (brands) of modular cast braces.
Anterior Spinal Instrumentation: Diagonal cross hook fixation system (A biomechanically different way of aligning and fixating metal to the spine).
ADVISORY EDITOR - Orthopedics Today - World wide monthly publication - retired
AWARDS :
Rutgers - Beta Beta Beta award Phi Beta Kappa Summa
Cum Laude
Harvard 1975 - Best Research, Analysis of Human Gait and Methodology
United States Government
United States Navy Line Military Commendation for excellence in developmen of childrens' services and teaching, by congressional study & Admiral of The Atlantic Fleet, 1978
Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America - Pioneer Award 3rd place - 1989 Office based computer video gait analysis system A Compact
Interactive Computer Video System
New Jersey - Governor's Commendation From Thomas H. Kean,
Governor of New Jersey, 1986 Commendation for pioneering work in Childrens' Orthopedics bringing praise to N.J.
Special Olympics Committee Award
- Behalf of Down's Syndrome Care & Research
Project Children Award - for medical services
International Computing Competition
:
Third place, A-B Cad computer programming
applications contest, sponsored by "True BASIC Inc.", 1990 An amorphous Biologic 3D CAD System Independent of External Grid Reference (For structures lacking
systemic points of reference based on cylindric rather than volumetric tracking)
Again - Same contest 1993 - Winner -
Intelligent Images True 3D (stereoscopic) full color animation in mobile windows with instructional word wrap. Hypertext
linked to objects within stereoscopic animated images
Overlook Hospital House Staff Teaching Award 1978
Overlook Hospital Applause Award for community service 1993 Project Children
(International) - 1987 Commendation for work -
Eunice Shriver Foundation
- Commendation for work with Down Syndrome Children Special Olympics
ARTICLES & PRESENTATIONS :
Counter current electrophoresis of human proteins Myoglobin research - numerous aspects, 1965 - 1968
A Motion Analyser for Clinical
Use Orthopaedic Research Society, New Orleans, Lousiana 1976 A Comprehensive Clinical System for Four Dimensional Motion Analysis - Bulletin Hospital for Joint Diseases April
1977
(techies note:, we were using a mouse and menu clicks in 1976, we just didn't do the "intellectual property" thing - that is take an obvious application of technology and patent it as IP)
Genu
Recurvatum in Spastic Cerebral Palsy Report on Findings by Gait Analysis Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 1978
Low Cost Manufacture Of Lower Limb Plastic Orthoses Society of
Military Orthopedic Surgeons 1977
Dynamic Bracing: Elastics for Patients with Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy and Myelodysplasia Clinical Orthopedic Related Research, May
1980
Nerve Entrapment in Greenstick Fractures in Children Presentation, New York Academy of Science, December 1980
Gas Gangrene- Presentation New York Academy of Science, December
1980
Dry Ice Freezing as Prelude to Surgical Amputation Orthopedics, February 1982
Ambulatory Periosteal Finger Traction With Brace for Severe
Finger Injuries, Orthopedics Today, 1977
High Performance with Below-Knee Cast Treatment Mechanics & Demonstration Orthopedics, June 1983
High Performance with Below-Knee Cast
Treatment Clinical Application & The Weak Link Hypothesis, Orthopedics, July 1983
Practical & Clinically Viable Video based Gait Analysis Proceedings of the 11th Annual
North East Bioengineering Conferance, March 1985
A Simple Treatment of Genu Recurvatum in Ataxic & Athetoid Cerebral Palsy Orthopedics, September 1986
Contralateral
Compensation with Knee Impairmen Clinical Orthopedics & Related Research, October 1987
A Computer Model of Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis
+ Causes of Fixation Error and
Chondrolysis Orthopedics, January 1986
A Computer Model of Proximal Cervical Instability in Down Syndrome, From X-ray Studies, Multispecialty Conference On Down
Syndrome
Wheeling: An Alternative Swing-Through Gait SOMA - Engineering for the Human Body, Volume 3, 1989
Harmonic Analysis of Human Gait, How We Walk presented at
several Bioengineering Conferences & at. New Jersey Institute of Technology, Biomedical Seminar & again at Eastern
Orthopedic Association - Meeting 1996 (below) as: An unlocking of the Fibonacci series and human form & function a mathematical model and explanation of compensatory mechanisms in human walking. Eastern
Orthopedic Association (NJ, NY, Ct, +),
& again at Nevis, British West Indies, April 1996
9-bar Foot Prosthetic Linkage to simulate stance knee function in friction lock A-K
prostheses Biomech Presentations, several
Elastic Simulation of Spasticity, EMG & Gait Analysis of a model of spasticity. Induction of spasticity-like behavior in normal volunteers & study of responses.
Percutaneous Myofascial Lengthenings: A Five Year
Outcome Review
& 20 year experience with an original procedure (In English & French) Canadian Orthopedic Association & Canadian Orthopedic Research Society -
Annual Meeting, June 3, 1997 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Counterparalysis for Treatment of Paralytic Scoliosis With Botulinum Toxin
A. J.
Orthopedics, March 1997 & presented at American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery Convention March 1997
New Treatment Options for the Severely Handicapped Columbus Seminars with Ohio Department
of Developmental Disabilities Children's Hospital Annual Conference, Dept. Mental Retardation & Dev. Disabilities June 10, 1997, Cincinnati Ohio
A New Treatment for Unicameral
Bone Cysts Employing Bone Gel Paste delivered Synthetic Calcitonin A Series - Presented to Eastern Orthopedic Association - 1997 Series in continuation.
Counter Paralysis for Treatment of Paralytic Scoliosis with Botulinum Toxin An Original Study Nuzzo, R.M.; Boucherit, T.; Walsh, S.;
Massood, S. American Journal of Orthopedic Surgery, March 1997
Above also presented within a larger series with independent validation at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery, Convention, May
1997 Botulinum Toxin Type A as Adjunctive Treatment in Spastic Neuromuscular Scoliosis [ a Cooperative Outcomes Study ] Nuzzo, R.; Errico, T.; Walsh, S.; Boucherit, T.; Dryer,
J.; Overlook Hospital, NYU Hosp, Hosp Joint Dis North American Spine Society, 13th Annual Meeting, San Francisco October 1998
Spine - State of
the Art Reviews Spinal Instrumentation - Ed: Thomas J. Errico, MD Chapter: Rationale & Technique of Same Day Anterior Instrumentation & Posterior Instrumentation for Severe Rigid Pediatric Scoliotic
Deformities
Errico, Nuzzo, Dryer
The Effect of Screw Orientation on the Stability of Anterior Instrumentation in Cyclic Lateral Bending, Rodriquez,-Olaverri,J; Hasharoni, A.; DeWal, H; Nuzzo, R; Kummer, F;Errico, T : The Spine Journal , Sept 2005 , Vol 5, Issue 5 pp 554-557
Textbook Surgical Management of Spinal Deformities, Errico, Lonner, Moulton; pub: Saunders 2009
Nuzzo, Errico, Chapter 10: Cerebral Palsy & Other Neuromuscular Disorders in Children
OTHER RESEARCH :
Full color true bifocal 3D computer animation as pop up window, with text, within normal computer display for storage and recal of
information related to movement (gait, dance, etc.). Data grabbed by 3D video cameras. Finished project - incorporated into graphics based systems language libraries. Award winning computer
project pioneering self programming images.
Cost Analysis - Outcomes Studies of Orthopedic Interventions in Neurologically Impaired Patients, ongoing funded by the Summit Area Public Foundation
Following
: Phase I (Journal of Orthopedic Surgery, March, 1997) Counterparalysis in the treatment of Paralytic Scoliosis with Botulinum toxin - a new
treatment
Phase II, animal trials with a new genetically engineered agent - goal Rx for Idiopathic scoliosis.
Clinical Cross Development
of Real Time Video Imaging (capable of seeing moving internal structures, cartilage, tendon, and organs etc. without radiation) - Sonovideography Imperium Inc., Maryland, Technical Developer
LECTURER : (past & present)
Rutgers University - Anatomy Harvard University - Orthopaedics New York University Physical Therapy - Developmental Disabilities New York Hospital
- Pediatric Physical Therapy Dept University of Oregon - Walking Disorders Seton Hall Graduate Medical Education - Orthopedics + Saint Joseph's Hospital & Residency Orthopedics JFK Hospital - Dept.
Physical Therapy New York School of Podiatry - Hip pathology of children
Multiple Conferences and Seminars Keynote speaker for many Spina Bifida Seminars and Developmental Disabilities seminars. (too
numerous to list)
Partial Listing: Orthopedic/Rehabilitative Issues in the Developmentally Disabled Individual - Ohio
Percutaneous Myofascial Lengthening Outcomes - Canada, West Indies
Evaluation and
Management of Children With Neuromuscular Disorders, Botox, Alcohol neurolysis, and orthopedic interventions and PT significance. NYU, NY
Botox treatment of paralytic scoliosis - AAOS - San Francisco,
California
Orthoped Update & Rehab issues - Matheny - NJ
Surgical & Rehab issues in cerebral Palsy - Dynamic Therapy Pediatric Symposium Meadowlands , N.J.
Management of Children With
Neuromuscular issues + percutaneous interventions, Cornell Med Ctr, NYC
Selection of Candidates for Myofascial Procedures + percutaneous alternatives University Texas MB, Galveston
Book Chapter: Surgical Management of Spinal Deformities - Errico et al - Chapt 10 - Nuzzo & Errico : Pearls
others...
MEMBERSHIPS :
(partial listing, not all currant) Fellow American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Fellow American Academy of
Pediatrics Board Certified by American Board of Orthopedic Surgeons Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America Orthopaedic Research Society New Jersey Orthopaedic Society Trustee Union County Educational
Foundation Appointed Member of the New Jersey Academy of Medicine
HOBBIES :
Guitar, Music
Composition, Drawing,
Painting
Writing
Poetics
Sculpting,
Photography, Computer Hacking
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