Charles S Day, MD, MBA Boston, MA
Charles S. Day, M.D., M.B.A, is the Chief of the Division of Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an assistant professor in orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and also has a Certificate of Added Qualification in Hand Surgery.
Dr. Day grew up in the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California, and completed his undergraduate studies in Human Biology at Stanford University. He spent the next four years at the University of California, San Francisco where he received his M.D. with Thesis degree. He then moved to the east coast and completed his orthopedic surgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, which included a two year basic science research fellowship. During his residency, he also attended business school part time and was the graduation speaker when he received his M.B.A. from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. He finished his formal clinical training with an orthopaedic hand surgery fellowship at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital of Washington University, St. Louis. When he was an attending hand surgeon at the BIDMC, he completed a one year Rabkin medical education fellowship through Harvard Medical School and the Shapiro Institute of Medical Education.
He has an active hand and wrist clinical practice with a special interest in wrist pathology. He also started a new ACGME approved orthopedic hand fellowship at his institution, and is the program director of this program at BIDMC/ HMS. His educational interest is in the implementation of musculoskeletal education into the first two years of HMS for all students. He was able to implement a new musculoskeletal curriculum at HMS in the human anatomy course, physical examination course, and human pathophysiology orthopedic course. He has published in this area, and is the Director of the orthopedic curriculum at HMS. In the clinical research arena, his interest is diverse and includes functional outcomes of distal radius fractures in the older patient, wrist motion versus function, endoscopic carpal tunnel release, workman’s compensation and socioeconomic influences on the treatment of hand pathologies, steroid injections for tendonitis, and the influence of objective pain tolerance on surgical treatments of the hand.
Nationally, Dr. Day is actively involved as a member in both the American Society of Surgery of the Hand and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery in various committees. He’s been involved in both the leadership development programs at the ASSH and the AAOS. He’s also a member of the American Orthopedic Association.
Areas of specialty
Active lifestyle- Active lifestyle
- Bone and joint decade
- Cultural competency
- Arthritis
- Lawn mower safety and injuries
- Slips and falls
- Snow shoveling and snow blower injuries
- Medical educator
- Orthopaedic education
- Baseball finger
- Boutonniere deformity
- Carpal scaphoid fractures
- Carpal tunnel
- Colles fracture
- Dupuytren’s contracture
- Elbow fractures
- Fingertip injuries
- Ganglions of the wrist
- Hand
- Hand arthritis
- Radial head fractures
- Sprained thumb
- Tennis elbow
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Trigger finger
- Baseball
- Wrist
- Tendonitis
- Wrong site surgery
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