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Why choose Kleinert Kutz Hand Center?

Your hands are vital. Only trust them to the best. Our physicians are available 24/7 for emergency care. Kleinert Kutz Hand Center is the largest and the oldest hand surgery practice in the United States.

When did Dr Moreno join Kleinert Kutz?

In February 2004, Dr. Moreno joined Kleinert Kutz as staff. In addition, he accepted the appointment as physician to the Commission for Children With Special Health Care Needs. He was appointed Assistant Clinical Professor with the University of Louisville Department of Surgery, Division of Hand Surgery.

What is the Kleinert Institute for fellowship?

In 2015, Dr. Palazzo became the program director of the Kleinert Institute for Fellowship, the largest of its kind in the country for hand and microsurgery. Her special interests include soft tissue injuries and tumors of the hand, cosmetic and reconstructive surgery of the breast, fat injections, and body contouring.

Margaret Napolitano, MD, FACS

Dr. Napolitano graduated from the University of Florida College of Medicine in 1993 where she received the Outstanding Student Plastic Surgery Department Award. She completed a general surgery residency in 1998 at St. Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.

Huey Y. Tien, MD, FACS

Dr. Tien graduated from Chung Shan Medical University in 1986 and completed orthopedic residency at Taiwan Tao-Yuan General Hospital in Taiwan. He then served a one-year fellowship as a research fellow, one year as a clinical fellow, followed by another year as a senior fellow with the Christine M.

Tuna Özyurekoglu, MD

Dr. Ozyurekoglu graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey in 1994. He completed Orthopedics and Traumatology residency in Ankara Emergency Care and Traumatology Hospital in 1998. He is certified in Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology by the Turkish Ministry of Health.

Rodrigo Moreno, MD

Dr. Moreno graduated from the Colombian School of Medicine “Bosque University” in 1993. He then completed a residency in Orthopedic and Trauma surgery where he received a National Research Award. In 2001, he completed a one-year fellowship at the Christine M.

Sunil Thirkannad, MD

Dr. Thirkannad graduated from Bangalore Medical College, India in 1990 and completed his Internship in 1991. He subsequently completed his Residency in Orthopedic Surgery in 1996 where he was awarded the Lupin Gold Award and Natarajan Gold Medal.

Michelle D. Palazzo, MD

Dr. Palazzo is a board-certified plastic surgeon who earned a bachelors and master’s degree in engineering from the University of Illinois. She received her medical degree from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in 1999. She then completed a residency in General, Plastic, and Reconstructive Surgery of St.

Elkin J. Galvis, MD

Dr. Galvis was born in Bogota, Colombia. He graduated from the National University School of Medicine in 1999. He then joined the Colombian Air Force where he worked three years in active duty as a medical commissioner officer.