Jeffrey Evan Budoff, MD
Houston, TX

Jeffrey E Budoff, M.D. is a full-time assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at the Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Budoff has written and published articles in leading medical journals and has authored many textbook chapters. In addition, he has edited two textbooks on the treatment of disorders of the upper extremity (hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder). He serves on national educational committees and frequently lectures at national meetings. He is an associate master instructor of shoulder arthroscopy for the Arthroscopy Association of North America and teaches other practicing orthopaedic surgeons the most up-to-date techniques of arthroscopic shoulder surgery. He will be co-chairing a separate shoulder arthroscopy course in 2007. He is a Leadership Fellow for both the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Society for Surgery of the Hand.

Dr. Budoff graduated Cum Laude from Harvard University and with honors from Cornell Medical School. He completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery at the University of California, Irvine. In order to obtain expertise covering the entire upper extremity, he completed two fellowships, one in hand surgery and the other in sports medicine. He is board certified in orthopaedic surgery and has a Certificate of Additional Qualification in Hand Surgery.

Dr. Budoff specializes in open and arthroscopic surgery of the hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder. He is an expert in endoscopic carpal tunnel release, sports injuries, fractures, dislocations, arthritis, tennis elbow, cubital tunnel surgery, shoulder instability, rotator cuff injuries, frozen shoulder, SLAP repairs, total elbow and total shoulder replacements. He also has specialized experience with complicated surgical reconstructions for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, quadriplegia and spasticity following stroke or brain trauma. In many difficult cases, he has enhanced patient’s quality of life and independence by restoring function to their hand, wrist and elbow.

Areas of specialty

Total joint replacement

• Elbow
• Shoulder

Shoulder – elbow - upper extremeties

• Arthroscopic shoulder injury; thermal capsulorrhaphy
• Baseball finger
• Biceps tendinitis
• Boutonniere deformity
• Broken collarbone
• Carpal scaphoid fractures
• Carpal tunnel
• Colles fracture
• Dislocated elbow
• Dislocated shoulder
• Dupuytren’s contracture
• Elbow
• Elbow bursitis
• Elbow fractures
• Fingertip injuries
• Fracture of the scapula
• Frozen shoulder
• Ganglions of the wrist
• Glenoid labrum tears
• Hand
• Hand arthritis
• Olecranon fracture
• Radial head fractures
• Rotator cuff
• Rupture of biceps tendon
• Shoulder
• Shoulder impingement (bursitis, tendonitis)
• Sprained thumb
• Tennis elbow
• Thoracic outlet syndrome
• Trigger finger

Sports: injury prevention

• Tennis

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