Lisa Lattanza, MD, has been appointed the Ensign Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at New Haven, Conn.-based Yale School of Medicine.
Dr. Lattanza is a leader in patient-specific 3D surgical planning and technology for deformity correction, according to a July 30 press release.
Her appointment is for 10 years, after which it could be renewed by the medical school's dean.
Dr. Lattanza currently serves as both chair and chief of orthopedics and rehabilitation for Yale New Haven Hospital, and she is affiliated with the Yale Institute for Global Health.
Before joining Yale School of Medicine in 2019, she was chief of hand and upper extremity surgery and vice chair of faculty affairs at the University of California in San Francisco.
She specializes in post-traumatic and congenital reconstruction for pediatric and adult elbow problems, and in 2016, she led a team to perform the first elbow-to-elbow transplant in the world.
She also pioneered a new classification system and approach to the treatment of chronic Monteggia fracture dislocations in children.
In April, she performed Yale School of Medicine's first fully in-house 3D surgical case.