Douglas N. Mintz, MD, Appointed Secretary/Treasurer of Alumni Association

We are pleased to announce that Douglas N. Mintz, MD has been appointed to serve as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Alumni Association. Dr. Mintz is a Board-Certified Radiologist specializing in Musculoskeletal Radiology since 1997. He has published in peer reviewed medical journals and has presented at national and international scientific assemblies.

After completing his fellowship in musculoskeletal imaging at Hospital for Special Surgery, Dr. Mintz has been concentrating on MRI with specific interest in bone and soft tissue tumors. He has a dedicated interest in resident, medical student, and fellow education. Dr. Mintz shares his thoughts about his new role.

A Note From Douglas N. Mintz, MD
February 2009

Greetings from the office of the Secretary/Treasurer. Well, there isn’t really an office, but it is a great honor to serve in this position. Hospital for Special Surgery is primarily an orthopaedic hospital and most of the alumni are orthopaedic surgeons. As a radiologist, albeit an orthopaedic radiologist, I am in the minority of alumni and look forward to serving the HSS Alumni Association and fostering continued associations of other alumni who are not surgeons.

My personal history with the hospital started about 35 years ago and has continued through the years. I was first a patient of Dr. Bohne after a car accident from which I gained an intimate knowledge of my current radiology department because of two knee arthrograms here. In college, I remember seeing Dr. Warren out on the field: not for the Giants, but for the then rarely victorious (but often injured) Columbia Lions. In medical school at the College of Physicians & Surgeons at Columbia University, graduating in 1988, I remember Dr. Lane, the school’s archivist, proud father of our Joe Lane and his alumnus brother Lewis, who continually talked up HSS. Somehow, I was fortunate enough to end up here after finishing my residency at Lenox Hill Hospital at the University of Minnesota Hospital Surgery and Clinics in Minneapolis, MN, as a fellow in musculoskeletal radiology (in 1997, the same year as former Secretary/Treasurer Riley Williams) and even more fortunate to have stayed on for the last 10 years.

As a non-orthopaedic alumnus, I have been involved with the Alumni Affairs Committee, but this appointment illustrates that all alumni are part of the association, can take pride in the institution, and participate in its ongoing activities. I look forward to your support (i.e., pay your dues), and look forward to continuing for many years the strong relationships I have found here at HSS.

All the Best,

Douglas N. Mintz, MD