Robin Kamal

Biography

Dr. Robin Kamal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. He completed his undergraduate and medical education at the University of Missouri, and graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha and Cum Laude honors. During his education he completed research fellowships at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Iowa. He went on to complete a residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at Brown University as well as a fellowship in Orthopaedic Trauma. During his training at Brown, he was trained in wrist biomechanics as a research fellow at the University of Barcelona. Dr. Kamal then completed a second fellowship in Hand, Upper Extremity, and Microvascular Surgery at Duke University. There he was trained in free vascularized fibula transfers. Dr. Kamal's research program focuses on the following: 1) Value-based healthcare: Studying novel payment models, variation in quality, cost analyses, and high-value clinical care pathways 2) Defining quality in orthopedic surgery: He currently is a member of the Hand Surgery Quality Consortium, a multi center collaborative with the mission of studying quality 3) Wrist kinematics and kinetics in the normal and injured wrist: Studying the factors the influence wrist motion to inform patient-specific wrist reconstructions

Research Interest

Wrist and Elbow Injuries and Quality Measures in Orthopaedic Surgery