Dr. Kleinert graduated from Temple University Medical School in 1946 and received its Distinguished Alumni Scientific Achievement Award in Surgery in 1987. His postgraduate training was completed at Grace Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Kleinert founded the University of Louisville Hand Clinic in 1953...

Dr. Kutz is a past director of the Christine M. Kleinert Fellowship in Hand Surgery.  He graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1958, received his postgraduate training at the University of Louisville, and served as a Christine M. Kleinert Hand Fellow for one year commencing in 1963.

Dr. Harter graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1975. He completed a General Surgery Residency and Surgical Research Fellowship from New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center from 1975 to 1982. He completed a Plastic Surgery Residency from Duke University Medical Center in 1984. Served as a Christine M. Kleinert Hand Fellow in 1983...

Dr. Manon-Matos was born in San Juan, PR and raised in Philadelphia, PA. He graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, NJ in 2000 and from Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, NH in 2004.  He completed his internship in General Surgery in 2005...

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. Kleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery...

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.  She then completed a plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship at the University of Florida Department of Surgery in 2000...

Dr. Özyurekoglu 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. He completed a hand and microsurgery fellowship at Manus Hand Surgery Center, Istanbul, Turkey.

Dr. Palazzo is a board certified plastic surgeon who earned two degrees in engineering from the University of Illinois and received her medical degree from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in 1999. She then completed a residency in General, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at St. Louis University...

Dr. Scheker graduated from the University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and received his postgraduate training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in London, England and the University of Glasgow in Scotland

Dr. Thirkannad graduated from Bangalore Medical College, India in 1991. He subsequently completed his Residency in Orthopedic Surgery in 1996 where he was awarded the Lupin Gold Award and Natarajan Gold Medal. He obtained a Masters Degree in Orthopedic Surgery in 1996 and was certified by the National Board of Examinations in 1997. 

Dr. Tien graduated from Chung Shan Medical University Taiwan in 1986. He completed Orthopedic residency at Taiwan Tao-Yuan General Hospital in Taiwan. He served a one-year fellowship as a clinical fellow with the Christine M. Kleinert Institute and one year as a senior fellow.

Dr. Tsai graduated from National Taiwan University, Republic of China, in 1961.  He received postgraduate training at both National Taiwan University Hospital and the University of Louisville Hospital.  Dr. Tsai served as a Christine M. Kleinert Hand Fellow in 1976.  He is now Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Louisville.

Dr. Wolff is the past Program director of the Christine M. Kleinert Fellowship in Hand Surgery. He graduated from Indiana University in 1969 and received his postgraduate training in Orthopedics at Charlotte Memorial Hospital in North Carolina. He served as a Christine M. Kleinert Hand Fellow in 1976.

Dr. Banegas graduated from the National University of Rosario, Argentina School of Medicine, in 1994.  He then completed a residency in Orthopedic Surgery at Hospital de Emergencias Clemente Alvarez in Rosario, Argentina.  In 2007, he completed a one-year fellowship at the Christine M. Kleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery...

Dr. Atasoy graduated from the University of Istanbul, Turkey in 1956, and received his postgraduate training at the University of Louisville.  He served as a Christine M. Kleinert Hand Fellow for one year in 1967.  In 1968 he joined the staff at Kleinert Kutz Hand Care Center.