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Jonathan
B. Ticker, MD Dr. Ticker has been in orthopaedic practice on Long Island, specializing in the shoulder, since 1995. His clinical practice places an emphasis on treating conditions affecting the shoulder, including all aspects of sports medicine. Dr. Ticker has been recognized yearly in the Castle Connolly Top Doctors in Orthopaedic Surgery.
His academic activities include research efforts that also
focus on the shoulder. In
addition, Dr. Ticker has co-editing two well-regarded and
respected shoulder textbooks, An Atlas of Shoulder Surgery
(which has been translated into other languages) and An
Atlas of Shoulder Arthroscopy.
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(Click here to view Book Review) He has published numerous investigative studies and articles in prestigious medical journals and textbooks. He has served as a peer reviewer for journals, including Journal of Arthroscopy, and is currently a reviewer for Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, American Journal of Sports Medicine and Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. Dr. Ticker is an active member of many societies, including the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons and the Arthroscopy Association of North America. He has lectured locally, nationally and internationally on shoulder topics, and has directed or assisted in many practical shoulder courses to train orthopaedic surgeons in the methods for shoulder diagnosis and the techniques for non-operative and operative treatment. Dr. Ticker’s current emphasis for surgical treatment is in minimally-invasive arthroscopic shoulder surgery techniques. Dr. Ticker served as chapter president of the National Medical Honor Society prior to graduation from New Jersey Medical School. He entered training at Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, and completed one fellowship (as the Frank E. Stinchfield Research Fellow) in the New York Orthopaedic Hospital Research Laboratory investigating shoulder biomechanics. This scientific research training was under the clinical direction of Louis Bigliani, MD (currently the Frank E. Stinchfield Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital) and Evan Flatow, MD (currently the Bernard J. Lasker Professor and Chair of the Department of Orthopaedics, and Chief of Shoulder Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center). After finishing his residency as Chief Resident at the New York Orthopaedic Hospital, he completed a second fellowship in sports medicine and shoulder surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, under the direction of Freddie Fu, MD (currently the David Silver Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh), Chris Harner, MD (currently the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Western Pennsylvania Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Chief of Sports Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh) and Jon Warner, MD (currently Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Chief of the Harvard Shoulder Service). Dr. Ticker is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. His national society activities include Chair of the Research Committee of the Arthroscopy Association of North America. Among his other endeavors, he served as Chairman of the Medical Committee for the 2002 and 2009 USGA Open Championship on the Black Course at Bethpage State Park, and he has designed orthopaedic instrumentation for shoulder surgery.
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