Attending Faculty

The department’s 23 attending surgeons are all board certified.  Nineteen members of the staff are fellowship trained in the area of sports medicine, pediatric orthopaedics, hand , spine, total joint replacement and foot and ankle.

General Orthopaedic Surgery

Angelo J. Lopano, M.D.
Residency: Harvard University

Irving Strouse, M.D.
Residency: Monmouth Medical Center

Spine

Jason Cohen, M.D.
Residency: Monmouth Medical Center
Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University

Lambro Demetriades, M.D.
Residency: Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY
Fellowship: Beth Israel Medical Center, NY

Gordon D. Donald, III, M.D.
Residency: Monmouth Medical Center
Fellowship: Cleveland Clinic

Cary Glastein, M.D.
Residency: Albert Einstein, Montefiore
Fellowship: Hospital for Special Surgery

Hoan-Vu T. Nguyen, M.D.
Residency: Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Fellowship: San Diego Center for Spinal Disorders

Steve Paragioudakis, M.D.
Residency: UMDNJ, Newark
Fellowship: Stanford University

Total Joint Replacement

Michael Absatz, M.D.
Residency: NYU
Fellowship: Kerlan-Jobe (Dorr)

Harry A. Bade, III, M.D.
Residency: St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital
Fellowship: Hospital for Special Surgery

David Chalnick, M.D.
Residency: Albany Medical Center
Fellowship: Insall/Scott/Kelly, NYC

Arthur K. Mark, M.D.
Residency: Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia
Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital

Sports Medicine

Kenneth Chern, M.D.
Residency: Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, NY
Fellowship: Sports Medicine Center at Baptist Hospital, Nashville

Gregg Foos, M.D.
Residency: Monmouth Medical Center
Fellowship: SCOI (Southern California Orthopaedic Institute)

Robert Grossman, M.D.
Residency: University of Vermont
Fellowship: Lenox Hill Hospital

Charles Rizzo, M.D.
Residency: NYU
Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania

Christopher Spagnuola, M.D.
Residency: Monmouth Medical Center
Fellowship: Thomas Jefferson University

Brian Torpey, M.D.
Residency: Monmouth Medical Center
Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University

Foot and Ankle

Glenn Gabisan, M.D.
Residency: Monmouth Medical Center
Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania

Aron Green, M.D.
Residency: Monmouth Medical Center
Fellowhship: University of Pittsburgh

Lance Markbreiter, M.D.
Residency: Columbia University
Fellowship: Hospital for Special Surgery

Pediatric

J. Andrew Bowe, M.D.
Residency: University of Virginia
Fellowship: Tufts University

Heather Harnley, M.D.
Residency: UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Fellowship: duPont Children’s Hospital, Delaware

Samuel J. Laufer, M.D.
Residency: U. of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital
Fellowship: U. of Toronto (Hospital for Sick Children)

Thomas McPartland, M.D.
Residency: UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Fellowship: Harvard University, Boston Children’s Hospital

Lawrence Stankovits, M.D.
Residency: Monmouth Medical Center
Fellowship: duPont Childrens Hospital, Delaware

Phillip Therrien, M.D.
Residency: University of Connecticut
Fellowship: The Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA

David Weisman, M.D.
Residency: UMDNJ-NJ Medical School
Fellowship: University of Toronto Hospital for Sick Children

Hand

Teddy L. Atik, M.D.
Residency: NYU / Hospital for Joint Diseases
Fellowship: Allegheny General Hospital

Raymond G. Decker, Jr., M.D.
Residency: Monmouth Medical Center
Fellowship: Tampa General Hospital

Gregory Fedorcik, M.D.
Residency: Monmouth Medical Center
Fellowship: Duke University Medical Center

George M. Gabuzda, M.D.
Residency: University of Connecticut
Fellowship: Tufts University Combined Program

David R. Gentile, M.D.
Residency: Monmouth Medical Center
Fellowship: University of Utah

Christopher D. Johnson, M.D.
Residency: Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
Fellowship: Indiana Center for Surgery and
Rehabilitation of the Hand and Upper Extremity

Gary M. Pess, M.D.
Residency: NYU
Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital

Arthur P. Vasen, M.D.
Residency: Case Western Reserve University
Fellowship: Harvard University-Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Direct all inquiries to:

Angelo J. Lopano, M.D., FAAOS,  FACS
Department Chairman and Program Director
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Monmouth Medical Center
300 Second Ave
Long Branch, New Jersey 07740
1-800-807-9191

mmcorthosurgery@sbhcs.com