Fraser J Leversedge, MD
Durham, NC

Originally from Victoria, Canada, Dr. Leversedge attended Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) for his undergraduate and medical school education. He completed his residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) and his hand and upper extremity surgery fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, MO) before joining Hand Surgery Associates in Denver, Colorado, in 2001. Currently, Dr. Leversedge is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, however he will be joining the faculty at Duke University in the fall of 2009 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery / Division of Orthopaedic Surgery. He is an Instructional Course Lecture faculty instructor with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, and has served on numerous committees for both organizations. He is a Trustee for the American Foundation for Surgery of the Hand. Dr. Leversedge is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Hand Surgery and is an consultant editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the Orthopaedic Knowledge Online series. In 2004 he was a site physician for the basketball venue at the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, and he will be a site physician at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada. Dr Leversedge and his wife Kimberly have three daughters, Chelsea, Haley, and Riley.

Areas of specialty

Active lifestyle

• Active lifestyle
• Boomeritis
• Weekend warrior

Complementary and alternative medicine

• Exercise

Diseases

• Arthritis
• Osteoarthritis

Injury prevention

• Slips and falls
• Snow shoveling and snow blower injuries

Medical educator

• Medical educator

Miscellaneous

• Making a surgical decision

Orthopaedic education

• Orthopaedic education

Patient safety

• Patient safety

Shoulder – elbow - upper extremeties

• Baseball finger
• Biceps tendinitis
• Carpal scaphoid fractures
• Carpal tunnel
• Colles fracture
• Dislocated elbow
• Dupuytren’s contracture
• Elbow
• Elbow bursitis
• Elbow fractures
• Fingertip injuries
• Ganglions of the wrist
• Hand
• Hand arthritis
• Olecranon fracture
• Radial head fractures
• Rupture of biceps tendon
• Sprained thumb
• Tennis elbow
• Trigger finger

Sports medicine

• Sports medicine

Sports: injury prevention

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Biking/mountain biking
• Cross training
• Cycling
• Field hockey
• Figure skating
• Football
• Golf
• Gymnastics
• Handball
• Hockey
• Mountain climbing
• Skiing
• Sledding
• Slides
• Snowboarding
• Soccer
• Tennis
• Track and field
• Trampoline safety
• Volleyball

Trauma

• Amputation
• Limb salvaging
• Reimplanting severed body parts

Volunteerism

• Volunteerism

Workplace injuries

• Tendonitis

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