Benjamin Ma, MD, a extremely regarded orthopedic surgeon and superior imaging researcher, has been appointed as chair of the UCSF Division of Orthopaedic Surgical procedure. Ma will assume his new function on January 1, 2024.

Ma focuses on diagnosing and caring for sufferers with sports activities drugs accidents, together with arthroscopic shoulder surgical procedures to restore rotator cuff tears and ligament instability, shoulder replacements, knee ligament reconstruction, and procedures to deal with meniscus and different cartilage accidents. His analysis focuses on enhancing the outcomes following gentle tissue musculoskeletal accidents.

In 2018, Ma assumed the place of vice chair of grownup scientific operations on the UCSF Division of Orthopaedic Surgical procedure. In 2020, Ma was appointed because the surgical director on the UCSF Mount Zion campus. From 2007 by 2019, he served because the chief of the division of Sports activities Medication and Shoulder Surgical procedure at UCSF, rising the college fourfold and incomes recognition in scientific observe, domestically and internationally. Ma has been a professor within the division of Orthopaedic Surgical procedure since 2003.

Ma is concerned in analysis on cartilage imaging and dynamic MRI scans of knees with accidents to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). His work has centered on early detection of cartilage accidents following ACL reconstruction surgical procedure and enhancing ACL reconstruction outcomes. He is among the founding members of the Multicenter Orthopaedic Final result Community (MOON) shoulder group. He has revealed extensively on the development of outcomes following rotator cuff surgical procedures and replacements.

I’ve little question that Dr. Ma’s historical past of outstanding scientific care and analysis, devotion to mentoring and supporting future leaders in musculoskeletal care, and dedication to variety and fairness within the discipline, place him effectively to guide the UCSF Division of Orthopaedic Surgical procedure as they work to pioneer musculoskeletal discovery and revolutionary care to remodel lives.”

Talmadge E. King, Jr., MD, Dean of the UCSF Faculty of Medication

In 2022, he was appointed because the Analysis Chair of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports activities Medication (AOSSM). He presently serves on the board of AOSSM and the editorial board of the American Journal of Sports activities Medication.

He has acquired many awards for his affected person care, instructing and analysis, together with the UCSF Well being Distinctive Doctor Award; UCSF Excellence in Instructing Award; O’Donoghue Award from ASSOM; Patellofemoral Analysis Excellence Award from the Worldwide Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgical procedure and Orthopaedic Sports activities Medication; Kappa Delta Award from the Orthopaedic Analysis Society, and the Charles S. Neer Award from the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons society.

His friends have positioned him on the “Prime Docs” listing in San Francisco and Marin counties for the previous 10 years. He’s additionally a crew doctor for the College of California Berkeley and San Francisco Giants.

Ma, a local of Hong Kong, earned his medical diploma at Johns Hopkins Faculty of Medication. He accomplished a residency in orthopedic surgical procedure on the College of Pittsburgh, the place he additionally accomplished a fellowship in musculoskeletal analysis. He subsequently accomplished a fellowship in shoulder and knee surgical procedure and sports activities drugs on the Hospital for Particular Surgical procedure in New York.

Ma is obsessed with educating the subsequent era of orthopedic surgeons, being a long-time member of the division’s Resident Training and Choice Committee and has served because the director for the Residents Core lecture collection for ten years. As well as, he has mentored greater than 30 residents who’ve pursued fellowships in sports activities drugs and shoulder surgical procedure and greater than 70 residents and fellows on their analysis and profession decisions.

He has additionally labored with the division’s Range, Fairness, and Inclusion Committee, serving to recruit and rent numerous college members and residents, ensuing within the division’s receipt of the inaugural Carl L. Nelson Award for the Development of Ladies in Orthopaedics.