Pedro J. Tort - Saadé, MD

45 SW 9 ST, APT 3210 MIAMI FL, 33131

Cell Phone: 787-349-9333

E-mails: ,

Education:

•November 7, 2017- Participation in the ABOS Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Certification and Recertification Examination Standard Setting Exercise.

•August 2015- AANA Master Experience Hip Arthroscopy Cadaver Course

•Multiple Advance cadaveric courses in anterior supine Total Hip replacement- two courses as Instructor (DJO, Medacta, Stryker, Zimmer, Biomet). Proctor in two courses for anterior-supine total hip replacement (DJO, Iconacy)

•September- November 2005- Traveling Fellowship: Minimally Invasive and revision Knee and HipReplacement: Frank Ebert, MD, UnionMemorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland

•August- September 2005- Traveling Fellowship: Minimally Invasive Knee and Hip

Replacement: Richard Berger, MD, Rush University Medical Center,Chicago, IL.

•August 2004 - July 2005- Sports Medicine Fellowship, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

•July 2004 - December 2004- Chief Resident, Orthopedic Training program; Puerto Rico, 2004

•July 2000 – June 2004- Orthopedic Residency Program, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus

•July 1999 – June 2000- Orthopedic Research, Orthopedic Residency Program, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus

•July 1998 – June 1999- General Surgery Internship, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus

•August 1994 – 1998- Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine. Bayamon, Puerto Rico

•August 1990 – 1994- Pre-Medicine Program, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus

Professional Societies:

•American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS)

•American Orthopedic Society of Sports Medicine (AOSSM)

•Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA)

•American Association of Orthopedic Surgery (AAOS)

•Puerto Rican Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (SPOT)

Medical Licenses:

•Puerto Rico 13586

•Florida ME 103097

Certifications:

•Recertified: Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Recertified (Combine Orthopaedic Diplomate and Orthopedic Sports Medicine) through 12/31/2028

•Subspecialty Certificate in Orthopedic Sports Medicine (ABOS) 11/5/2009 to 12/31/2019.

•American Board of Orthopaedic Diplomate (Since 2008)

•USMLE Step I – October 1996

•USMLE Step II – August 1997

•USMLE Step III – April 2000

•Disaster Response Course; AAOS 2015

Actual Orthopedic Practice:

  • Puerto Rico: Tort Orthopaedic Institute (office both San Juan and Vega Alta); Solo private practice.
  • Florida:
  • Florida Spine and Joint Institute
  • Larkin’s Orthopedic Residency Program

Work Experience:

•2017- Vice President of Puerto Rican Society ofOrthopaedics and Traumatology (SPOT)

•September 17-Associate instructor, “Spanish” Advanced Shoulder Surgical Techniques Course / AANA.

•In private practice since 2005. Actual Practice: About 50% Joint Replacements (shoulder, knee, hip primary and revisions), Sports 45% (shoulder, elbow, knee), 5% trauma (hips, knee, upper extremity)

•Since 2015- Assistant Director Sports Medicine- Larkin’s Hospital Orthopedic Residency Program, Miami, Florida.

•2015 Glasgow Gymnastics World Championship: Team Doctor

•Zimmer Consultant for joint replacement education (several hip and knee primary and revision courses in United States and Mexico)

•Since 2014- Orthopedic Surgeon - Florida Spine and Joint Institute(legal cases, and private practice), Kendall, Coral Springs and Hialeah Florida.

•2014-2016- President / Delegate of the Puerto Rico Orthopedic Society Chapter in the Puerto Rico Colleague of Physicians

•2014- Vice President of Puerto Rican Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (SPOT)

•Voluntary work at Jimani during Haiti earthquake crisis 2010

•2011 Tokyo, Japan Gymnastics World Championship: Team Doctor

•2009- 2011 Puerto Rico Centro American Games Director of Gymnastics Medical Committee

•Team physician of Puerto Rico Gymnastics National Team since 2005.

•Orthopedic Surgeon of Professional Boxing three times world champion, Ivan Calderon.

•Head Physician of Ricky Martin World Tour 2005/2006/2007 Medical Staff

•2004 and 2004 Major League Baseball. Team Physician / Thomas Jefferson Sports Medicine Fellowship - Phillies

•2004 and 2005 Professional Indoor Football Team Physician / Thomas Jefferson Sports Medicine Fellowship. Philadelphia Souls

•2004 and 2005 Professional Indoor Lacrosse. Team Physician / Thomas Jefferson Sports Medicine Fellowship. Philadelphia Wings

•2004 and 2005 Professional Outdoor Lacrosse Team Physician / Thomas Jefferson Sports Medicine Fellowship. Philadelphia Barrages

•2004- NCAA Division One Women and Men Basketball Team Physician / Thomas Jefferson Sports Medicine Fellowship.

•2004- Outdoor Lacrosse Team Physician / Thomas Jefferson Sports Medicine Fellowship. Saint Joseph’s University

•Advanta Championships, Women Tennis Association (WTA) Tour, November 17, 2004.Villanova, PA. Team Physician / Thomas Jefferson Sports Medicine Fellowship.

•Marple Newtown Square High School Football Team Physician. Philadelphia. Team Physician / Thomas Jefferson Sports Medicine Fellowship

•2004: Team physician of Puerto Rico Wrestling National Team in Wrestling WorldChampionships, New York.

•Puerto Rico International Gymnastics Cup Medical Staff.

•2000 – 2002 Orthopedic Clerkship Problem Based Learning. University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine.

•May 1999 Medical Staff XIII Pan-American Wrestling Championships, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Publications, and Presentations:

  1. Speaker in Advanced Knee Course, Conmed, Tampa FL -August 2017
  1. Speaker in Advanced Knee and Shoulder Course, Conmed, Tampa FL -August 2017
  1. May 2017: Conference to general physicians, “ Complex Shoulder Problems”, Doral, Florida
  1. May 2017: Sports Medicine Symposium Conferences, “Shoulder Instability”, “Activities and Sports after Total Joint Replacements”, San Juan P.R
  1. August 2016: Grand Round at Larkin’s Orthopedic Residency program (South Miami)“ACL Injuries”
  1. June 2016: Grand Round at Larkin’s Orthopedic Residency program (South Miami)“Patellofemoral Pain, Instability, and Recurrent Patellar Dislocations”
  1. “Recurrent Patellar Dislocations”; Presentation 2016-SPOT (Puerto Rico) Sports Medicine Symposium.
  1. January 2016: Grand Round at Larkin’s Orthopedic Residency program (South Miami)“Knee Cartilage Injuries”
  1. November 2015, Speaker in Dominican Republic / Smith and Nephew Symposium: Modern ACL Reconstruction Techniques.
  1. August 31, September 1, 2015: Smith and Nephew “Soluciones Latinoamerica” Speaker (Total Knee Replacement Revisions, Infections in Total Knee Replacement)
  1. International Orthopedic Surgeon Guest Speaker, XIX International Course of Orthopedic Advances / Knee Symposium. Puerto Vallarta, August 2015.
  1. “Meniscal Transplants”; Presentation 2015-SPOT Sports Medicine Symposium.
  1. “Crash Course in Orthopedic Radiologic Concepts”. Conference; Puerto Rico Radiologic Technologist 2014 Convention.
  1. Case Report Presentation: “A Revision Reverse Total Shoulder Replacement with Structural Bone Allograft Composite Implantation in a Complex Type B-3 Periprosthetic Fracture with Severe Bone Loss”. SPOT- Fernandez Feliberti Research Forum 2104.
  1. “PRP”. Presentation 2012 in SPOT Sports Medicine Symposium.
  1. “Meniscal Transplants”. Presentation 2012 in SPOT Sports Medicine Symposium.
  1. “Crash Course in Orthopedic Radiologic Concepts”. Conference; Puerto Rico Radiologic Technologist 2011 Convention.
  1. “Crash Course in Orthopedics”. A short course every year to the graduating medical class in the Universidad Central de Caribe, Bayamon P.R. (associate professor) – Voluntary work.
  1. “Treatment of Orthopedic Emergencies”. Conference every 6 months to 3rd year medical students; Universidad Central de Caribe, Bayamon P.R. (associate professor) – Voluntary work.
  1. “Complex Problems in Massive Rotator Cuff Tears”. Conference in a Sports Medicine conference in Mexico. 2012.
  1. Nuevos avances en ortopedia de hombro: “Reemplazo inverso del hombro”. Galenus 27, 2010.
  1. “Nuevos conceptos en la reconstrucción del ligamento anterior cruzado de la rodilla”. Galenus 02- Revista 2009.
  1. 11/01/2008- The Use of Allografts in Athletic Injuries. First Soft Tissue Allografts Congress- Life Link. Presentation.
  1. 10/27/2008- Sports Medicine Board Review for University of P.R. residents. Board Review.
  1. 09/ 2008- New techniques in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: San Francisco Hospital Medical Convention; Presentation.
  1. August /2008- New Concepts in the Reconstruction of The ACL. Galenus P.R., #2, 2008.
  1. 2005- Surgical Outcome of Posterior Elbow Dislocation with Associated Fractures of the RadialHead and Coronoid. AAOS meeting: Poster Presentation.
  1. July 2005: Treatment of Massive Rotator Cuff Tears, Cooper Hospital, and Philadelphia, PA. Presentation.
  1. May 2005: Articular Cartilage Restoration Surgeries, Rothman Institute Philadelphia. Presentation.
  1. 2004 - Outcome of Surgical Treatment of Posterior Elbow Dislocation with Associated RadialHead and Coronoid Fracture. 2nd Best Presentation; F.L. Raffucci Memorial Lecture andSurgical Research Forum. Published in the Official Journal of the Puerto Rico Orthopaedic Department.
  1. Nov 2004: Patellofemoral Problems, Rothman Institute, Philadelphia, PA. Presentation.
  1. May 23, 2000 – The Association of Wrist Fracture Treatments and Complex Regional PainSyndrome. Best Presentation- Clinical Division: Twenty F.L. Raffucci Memorial Lectureand Surgical Research, Puerto Rico.
  1. May 23, 2000 –Mycophenolate in the Treatment of Proteinuria after Kidney Transplantation.Best Presentation – Basic Science. F.L. Raffucci Memorial Lecture and Surgical Research Forum, Puerto Rico.
  1. February 11, 1999 – Unicortical vs. Bicortical Fixation in Impending Fractures. Presented at Nineteenth F.L. Raffucci Memorial Lecture and Surgical Research Forum, Puerto Rico.
  1. 1998- Case Report: Pseudoaneurism of the Calcaneal Branch of the Peroneal. Unpublished.
  1. Artery after a Foot Stabilization Procedure. Published in the official Journal of the Puerto RicoOrthopedic Department.
  1. “Trasplante de meniscos: Una esperanza para muchos.” Galenus 12

Other Work:

•Consultant for Conmed (2017)

•Consultant for Smith and Nephew (2016-2017)

•Consultant for Zimmer (2013-2015)

•Principal Speaker. White Coat Ceremony. Medical School Class 2012 (Universidad Central del Caribe)

•FBI Citizen Academy Puerto Rico Committee Member / 2008

•FBI Citizen Academy Graduate; San Juan Puerto Rico. Sept. 2008

•Associate Professor in Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine: Since 1998

•Life Link Tissue Advisory Council Member: Since 2008.

Journal Reviewer:

•Reviewer of the Orthopedic Journal of Sports Medicine (OJSM): Since August 2017

•Reviewer of theJournal of Arthroplasty: Since June 2016

•Reviewer of the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery: Since April 2011

•Reviewer of The American Journal of Sports Medicine (AJSM): Since August 2005. Principal reviewer list AJSM 2013

Hobbies:

  • Surfing, snowboarding, golf, music, Gym, swimming

Cases Experience: (Extensive experience in Sports Medicine (arthroscopy; shoulder / knee), primary and revisions reconstructive surgery / shoulder, hip, and knee)

  • Shoulder
  • Arthroscopy
  • All cases related to instability, labral, SLAP, rotator cuff problems
  • Lateral and beach chair experience
  • Open
  • Tendon transfers: latissimus dorsi and teres major, pectoralis major
  • Latarjet-Bristow procedure
  • Open labral and rotator cuff procedures
  • Primary and revision total and reverse shoulder replacements
  • Fractures of the humerus and proximal humerus
  • Complex periprosthetic fracture treatment including revisions
  • Hip
  • Arthroscopy
  • Early experience
  • Open
  • Extraarticular and intraarticular procedures
  • Snapping hip
  • IBFS
  • Years of experience primary and revision total hip replacements
  • Average number of total joint replacements cases per week is 8 (TKR, THR, TSR)
  • Anterior supine total hip replacement (around 100 cases total experience), over 5 years of experience, assistant professor in two courses, several conferences given about this approach
  • All types of hip and femur fractures
  • Knee
  • Arthroscopic
  • ACL, PCL, MCL, PLC isolated and combine surgery reconstruction experience
  • Cartilage procedures (including allograft fresh OATS, and or combine procedures)
  • Meniscal treatment procedures
  • Meniscal transplant (MMT)
  • ACL + MMT
  • HTO + MMT
  • Open
  • HTO, distal femoral osteotomies
  • Patellofemoral problems
  • AMZ osteotomy (Fulkerson)
  • MPFL reconstruction
  • Joint replacements
  • Uni-replacements
  • Uni + ACL reconstruction
  • Primary TKR
  • Medial parapatellar
  • Sub-vastus approach
  • mid-vastus approach
  • Revision TKR
  • Fractures
  • Elbow
  • Open
  • Total elbow replacement
  • Bicep tendon and triceps tendon injuries
  • ULCL, UCL reconstruction
  • Fractures and dislocations
  • Epicondylitis treatment
  • Trauma
  • Fractures: humerus, forearm, distal radius, hip, femur, knee, and tibia fractures