Joseph Lane

Biography

Prof. Joseph Lane is assistant dean and professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and assistant dean, chief of the Metabolic Bone Disease Service, and attending orthopaedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery. He is also attending orthopaedic surgeon at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.Prof. Lane received his A.B. degree from Columbia College and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He performed his general surgical internship and residency and three-year orthopaedic residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. From 1973 to 1975, Prof. Lane was the Elsee Butz assistant professor (Orthopaedics) at the Hospital University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He was appointed assistant professor and chief of the Metabolic Bone Disease Service at the Hospital for Special Surgery at Cornell University's medical school in 1975, ultimately attaining full professorship, assistant dean, director of clinical research, and medical director of the Metabolic Bone Disease Service and Osteoporosis Prevention. Prof. Lane was also appointed chief of the Bone Tumor Service at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center from 1976 to 1991 and senior attending from 1991 to 1993. From 1993 to 1996 he was professor and chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at UCLA.

Research Interest

surgery