Jonathan B. Ticker, MD

Dr. Ticker joined Island Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in 1995.  His clinical practice places an emphasis on treating conditions affecting the shoulder and all aspects of sports medicine.  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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He has publishing 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 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 Lasker Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery 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.  Among his other endeavors, he served as Chairman of the Medical Committee for the 2002 USGA Open Championship on the Black Course at Bethpage State Park, and he has designed orthopaedic instrumentation for shoulder surgery.

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James Egan joined Island Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in 2003 as director of the Physical Therapy department. With the opening of our specialized Shoulder Physical Therapy Center in 2004, Jim has focused his practice on both non-operative and operative rehabilitation of shoulder disorders, in addition to directing the entire staff of the Shoulder Physical Therapy Center.

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