The
Hospital for Sick Children
University of Toronto
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
Clinical Fellow
Residency
1978-1979
Columbia-Presbyterian
Medical Center
The New York Orthopaedic Hospital
Orthopaedic Surgery
Resident and Junior Annie C. Kane Fellow
1976-1978
Columbia-Presbyterian
Medical Center
The New York Orthopaedic Hospital
Orthopaedic Surgery
Internship
1975-1976
Roosevelt
Hospital
New York, NY
General Surgery
Medical
School
1975
Columbia
University
College of Physicians & Surgeons
M.D.
Undergraduate
1971
University
of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma
B.A.
CURRENT HOSPITAL
& ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
St. Giles Professor of
Pediatric
Orthopaedic Surgery
Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Attending Orthopaedic
Surgeon and
Director of Pediatric Orthopaedics
Children's Hospital of New York
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Professor of Clinical
Orthopaedic Surgery
Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Consulting Medical Staff
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Helen Hayes Hospital
Consulting Medical Staff
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Greenwich Hospital
Consulting Medical Staff
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
White Plains Hospital
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETIES
American Medical Association
Diplomate, National Board of Medicine
Alumni Association, College
of Physicians and Surgeons
Alumni Council
Awards Committee
Development Committee
Diplomate, American Board
of Orthopaedic
Surgery
Fellow, New York Academy of
Medicine
Pediatric Orthopaedic Club
of New York
North American Spine
Society
Fellow, American Academy of
Orthopaedic Surgeons Secretary
Fellow, American Academy
for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine
Fellow, American Academy of
Pediatrics
Spine Club of New York City
Board of Examiners,
American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
Fellow, Scoliosis Research
Society
Fellow, Orthopaedic
Research Society
Academic Orthopaedic
Association
SICOT, Societe
Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopedique et de Traumatologie
European Pediatric
Orthopaedic Society
American Orthopaedic
Association
American Orthopaedic
Society
Pediatric Orthopaedic
Society of North America Pediatric Orthopaedic Outcome Instrumentation
Task Force Finance Committee
Pediatrics in Review:
Update for the New Millennium Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
Review Committee
New York State Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons,
Inc.
The Salter Society
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
Operation Smile. Norfolk,
VA
Reconstructive Surgery for Children World Wide
Surgical Missions: Kenya. Rumania.
Operations Committee
Healing the Children.
Butler, New Jersey.
Consultant
Eastern Christian
Children's Retreat. Wyckoff, NJ
Consultant
Children of China Pediatric
Foundation, NY 2002 to
present- Executive Medical Director
2004 to present- Member Board of Directors
1999 to present- Annual Surgical Missions to China: Destinations: Harbin, Hangzhou,
Luoyang, Nanjing, and Nanchang
Children of China
Pediatrics Foundation, NY
Teaching and administrative trips to China: Destinations: Beijing, Suzhou,
Hangzhou
International Healthcare
Leadership, China
Chief Executive Officer
RECENT HONORS
Best Doctors In New York:
New York Magazine
America's Top Doctors:
Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
Vitale MG, Matsumoto H,
Kessler MW, Hoffmann W, Roye DP Jr. Osteogenesis Imperfecta: Determining
Demographics and the Predictors of Death from an Inpatient Population. J
Pediatr Orthop. 2007 Mar;27(2):228-232.
Lowenstein JE, Matsumoto H,
Vitale MG, Weidenbaum M, Gomez JA, Lee FY, Hyman JE, Roye DP Jr. Coronal
and Sagittal Plane Correction in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A
Comparison between All Pedicle Screw versus Hybrid Thoracic Hook Lumbar
Screw Constructs. Spine. 2007 Feb 15;32(4):448-452.
Vitale MG, Goss JM,
Matsumoto H, Roye DP Jr. Epidemiology of pediatric spinal cord injury in
the United States: years 1997 and 2000. J Pediatr Orthop. 2006 Nov-Dec;26(6):745-9.
Vitale MG, Vitale MA,
Lehmann CL, Hyman JE, Roye DP Jr, Skaggs DL, Schmitz ML, Sponseller PD,
Flynn JM. Towards a National Pediatric Musculoskeletal Trauma Outcomes
Registry: the Pediatric Orthopaedic Trauma Outcomes Research Group
(POTORG) experience. J Pediatr Orthop. 2006 Mar-Apr;26(2):151-6.
Lee FY, Sinicropi SM, Lee
FS, Vitale MG, Roye DP Jr, Choi IH. Treatment of congenital
pseudarthrosis of the tibia with recombinant human bone morphogenetic
protein-7 (rhBMP-7). A report of five cases. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2006
Mar;88(3):627-33.
Vitale MA, Choe JC, Seski
AM, Hyman JE, Lee FY, Roye DP, Vitale MG. The Effect of Limb Length
Discrepancy on Health-related Quality of Life: is the '2 cm rule'
Appropriate? Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics B. 2006;15:1-5.
Vitale MG, Roye EA, Choe
JC, Hyman JE, Lee FY, Roye DP. Assessment of Health Status in Patients
With Cerebral Palsy: What is the Role of Quality-of-Life Measures? Journal
of Pediatric Orthopaedics. 2005; 25: 792-797.
Vitale MG, Choe JC, Vitale
MA, Lee FY, Hyman JE, Roye DP Jr. Patient-based outcomes following
clubfoot surgery: A sixteen year follow-up study. Journal of Pediatric
Orthopaedics. 2005;25.
Clapcich AJ, Emerson RG,
Roye DP Jr, Xie H, Gallo EJ, Dowling KC, Ramnath B, Heyer EJ. The
effects of propofol, small-dose isoflurane, and nitrous oxide on
cortical somatosensory evoked potential and bispectral index monitoring
in adolescents undergoing spinal fusion. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 2004;99:1334-40.
Ugwonali
OF, Lomas G, Choe JC, Hyman JE, Lee FY, Vitale MG, Roye DP Jr. Effect of bracing on the
quality of life of adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis. Spine
Journal: Official Journal of the North American Spine Society. 2004;4:254-60.
Roye BD, Hyman J, Roye DP Jr.
Congenital idiopathic talipes equinovarus. Pediatrics in
Review.2004;25:124-30.
Alexianu
D, Skolnick ET, Pinto AC, Ohkawa S, Roye DP Jr, Solowiejczyk DE, Hyman JE, Sun LS. Severe
hypotension in the prone position in a child with neurofibromatosis,
scoliosis and pectus excavatum presenting for posterior spinal fusion. Anesthesia
& Analgesia. 2004;98:334-5.
Vitale
MG, Choe JC, Hwang MW, Bauer RM, Hyman JE, Lee FY, Roye DP Jr. Use of
ketorolac tromethamine in children undergoing scoliosis surgery. An
analysis of complications. Spine Journal: Official
Journal of the North American Spine Society. 2003;3 : 55-62.
Roye DP Jr., Roye BD. Idiopathic congenital
talipes equinovarus. Journal of the American Academy of
Orthopaedic Surgeons. 2002;10:239-48.
Vitale
MG, Levy DE, Park MC, Choi H, Choe JC, Roye DP Jr. Quantifying risk of
transfusion in children undergoing spine surgery. Spine
Journal: Official Journal of the North American Spine Society. 2002;2:166-72.
Vitale
MG, Levy DE, Johnson MG, Gelijns AC, Moskowitz AJ, Roye BP, Verdisco L, Roye DP Jr. Assessment of quality of
life in adolescent patients with orthopaedic problems: are adult
measures appropriate?Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics. 2001;21:622-8.
Vitale
MG, Levy DE, Moskowitz AJ, Gelijns AC, Spellman M, Verdisco L, Roye DP
Jr. Capturing quality of life in pediatric orthopaedics: Two recent
measures compared. Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics. 2001; 21:629-35.
Hyman JE, Lee FY, Dormans JP, Davidson RS, Magnusson M, Roye DP
Jr. Orthopaedic Surgery,Chapter,
In: Pediatric
Secrets , Third Edition RA Olin and MF Ditmar (Eds).
2001.
Vitale
M, Roye DP Jr.
Short-term outcomes analysis in pediatric orthopaedics. Journal of
Bone & Joint Surgery - American Volume. 2001;83:619-20.
Roye BD, Vitale MG, Gelijns AC, Roye DP Jr. Patient-based outcomes
after clubfoot surgery. Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics. 2001;21:42-9.
Roye DP Jr., Raimondo RA. Surgical
treatment of the child's and adolescent's flexible flatfoot. Clinics in Podiatric Medicine &
Surgery. 2000;17:515-30.
Vitale
MG, Higgs GB, Liebling MS, Roth N, Roye DP Jr.. Superior mesenteric artery syndrome after segmental instrumentation: a
biomechanical analysis.American Journal of Orthopedics
(Chatham, Nj). 1999;28:461-7.
Roye DP Jr. Recombinant human
erythropoietin and blood management in pediatric spine surgery. Orthopedics. 1999;22:158-60.
Vitale
MG, Stazzone EJ, Gelijns AC, Moskowitz AJ, Roye DP Jr. The effectiveness of
preoperative erythropoietin in averting allogenic blood transfusion
among children undergoing scoliosis surgery.Journal of
Pediatric Orthopaedics, Part B. 1998;7:203-9.
Paylakis SG, Chusid RL, Roye DP Jr .,
Nordli DR. Valproate therapy: Predisposition to bone fracture? Pediatric
Neurology 1998;19:143-4.
Schwab
FJ, Farcy JP, Roye DP Jr.
The sagittal pelvic tilt index as a criterion in the evaluation of
spondylolisthesis. Preliminary observations. Spine. 1997;22:1661-7 .
Levin
TL, Berdon WE, Lachman RS, Anyane-Yeboa K, Ruzal-Shapiro C, Roye DP Jr. Lumbar gibbus in storage
diseases and bone dysplasias. Pediatric
Radiology. 1997;27:289-94.
KJ Nagle, RG Emerson, DC Adams, EJ Heyer, DP Roye, Jr ., F
Schwab, M Weidenbaum, P McCormick, J Piel-Spellman, BM Stein, JP Farcy,
EJ Gallo, KC Dowling, CA Turner. Intraoperative monitoring of motor
evoked potentials: reviewed 116 cases. Neurology 1996;4;999-1004.
Nercessian
OA, Roye DP Jr.,
Bini SA, Dick HM. Supracondylar femoral osteotomies for the correction of
angular deformity about the knee in children. A follow-up study. American
Journal of Knee Surgery. 1995;8:48-51.
Roye DP Jr., Farcy JP, Rickert JB,
Godfried D. Results of spinal instrumentation of adolescent idiopathic
scoliosis by King type. Spine. 1992;17:270-3.
Roye DP Jr., Rothstein P, Rickert
JB, Verdisco L, Farcy JP. The use of preoperative erythropoietin in
scoliosis surgery. Spine. 1992;17:204-205.
Roye DP Jr., Bini SA, Infosino A.
Late surgical treatment of lateral condylar fractures in children. Journal of
Pediatric Orthopedics. 1991;11:195-9.
Roye DP Jr., Chorney GS, Deutsch LE,
Mahon JH. Femoral varus and acetabular osteotomies in cerebral palsy. Orthopedics. 1990;13:1239-43.
Phillips
DP, Roye DP Jr.,
Farcy JP, Leet A, Shelton YA. Surgical treatment of scoliosis in a
spinal muscular atrophy population. Spine. 1990;15:942-5.
SELECTED
PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS (last 5 years)
The Epidemiology of
Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury in the US. Columbia University; Children's
Hospital of New York, Presented at AAOS 2006 Annual Meeting, Chicago,
IL. March 2006.
Coronal and Sagittal Plane
Correction in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Comparison Between
Thoracic Pedicle Screw and Hook Constructs. Presented at AAOS 2006
Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. March 2006.
Delaying the Treatment of
Supracondylar Fractures: Has the Pendulum Swung too Far?
Presented at the Annual meeting of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of
North America, San Diego, CA. May 2006.
A Retrospective Cohort
Study of Pulmonary Function, Radiographic Measures and Quality of Life
in Children with Congenital Scoliosis: An Evaluation of Patient Outcomes
after Traditional Spine Surgery. Presented at Scoliosis Research
Society, Monterey, CA. September 2006.
The Efficacy of
Preoperative Erythropoietin Administration in Pediatric Neurogenic
Scoliosis Patients. Presented at Scoliosis Research Society, Monterey, CA. September 2006.
The Epidemiology of SCFE:
An Update. Presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics, San
Francisco, CA. Oct, 2004. Presented at the 72nd
Annual Meeting AAOS, Washington, DC. March 2005.
se of rhEPO in Patients With
Neurogenic Scoliosis: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Presented at the
American Academy of Pediatrics, San Francisco, CA.
October 2004.
Treatment of Closed Femoral
Shaft Fractures in Children, Ages 6-10: National Practice Patterns &
Emerging Trends. Presented at the 71th Annual Meeting AAOS, San
Francisco, CA. February 2004.
What is the Best Setting
for Training for Scoliosis Surgery? A Comparison of Surgical Experience
of Spine vs. Pediatric Fellows in California. Presented at the American
Academy of Pediatrics, New Orleans, LA. November 2003. Presented at the
71th Annual Meeting AAOS, San Francisco, CA. February 2004.
In-Patient Pediatric
Trauma: The Most Frequent Traumatic Orthopaedic Injuries from a National
Pediatric Inpatient Population. Presented at the American Academy of
Pediatrics, New Orleans, LA. November 2003. Presented at the 71th Annual
Meeting AAOS, San Francisco, CA. February 2004.
Operative Treatment of
Scoliosis in New York State by Surgeons with Pediatric vs. Spine
Fellowship Training. Presented at the 71th Annual Meeting AAOS; San
Francisco, CA. February 2004. Presented at the American Academy of
Pediatrics, New Orleans, LA. November 2003. Presented at the 2005 Annual
meeting of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America. Ottowa,
CA - Winner of Best Clinical Scientific Paper.
