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NYU Langone Health appoints new chief of foot and ankle division
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John G. Kennedy, MD, was appointed the new chief of the foot and ankle division in the department of orthopedic surgery and the director of the foot and ankle center at NYU Langone Health.
According to a press release, Kennedy joined NYU Langone as professor or orthopedic surgery at NYU School of Medicine on January 2. He will treat patients and perform surgeries at a new foot and ankle center at the Joan H. & Preston Robert Tisch Center at Essex Crossing. Kennedy will also perform surgery at the NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital. Conditions he treats include osteochondral lesions or fractures of the talus and tibia, ankle instability, anterior and posterior ankle impingement, os trigonum syndrome, talonavicular osteochondral lesions, ankle and subtalar arthritis, Haglund’s syndrome, Achilles tendinosis, posterior tibial tendon dysfunction and syndrome, peroneal tendon conditions, first metatarsophalangeal joints arthritis and sesamoiditis.
Kennedy has a special interest in articular cartilage injury and joint preservation. He began his first subspecialty foot and ankle sports injury clinic in New York. Before he came to NYU Langone, he was an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Weill Cornell Medical School and assistant attending physician at Hospital for Special Surgery.
“Having a surgeon with Dr. Kennedy’s pioneering experience and skill leading our foot and ankle division will benefit our patients tremendously,” Joseph D. Zuckerman, MD, the Walter A. L. Thompson Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and chair of the department of orthopedic surgery at NYU Langone, said in the release. “His extensive research and clinical work in arthroscopic procedures and nonoperative treatments for sports foot and ankle injuries will catapult our division to a new level of excellence.”
Kennedy has been part of more than 200 publications in medical journals and has given more than 500 podium presentations around the world. He is co-president of the International Society on Cartilage Repair of the Ankle, which began the International Consensus Meeting on Cartilage Repair of the Ankle to standardize ankle cartilage treatment algorithms.
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