Barry D. Brause, MD

Appointments

Attending Physician, Hospital for Special Surgery
Director of Infectious Diseases, Hospital for Special Surgery
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College

Specialty

Infectious Diseases

Special Expertise

Infections of bones, joints and soft tissues; Infections associated with prosthetic joints and other foreign bodies; Musculoskeletal, Orthopedic and Rheumatological infections

Awards

Andrew W. Mellon Teacher-Scientist Award, 1977-1979
The Hip Society, Frank Stinchfield Award, 1985
Publication from 1983 reprinted as a Classic reference in Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, 2002

Affiliations

Fellow, American College of Physicians (FACP)
Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America (FIDSA)

Procedures

Infectious Disease Consultations

Education

M.D., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1970

Internship

Medical Internship, Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 1970-1971

Residency

Medical Residency, New York Hospital, New York, New York, 1971-1973

Fellowship

Infectious Disease Fellowship, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York, 1973-1975

Certification

Internal Medicine, 1973
Subspecialty of Infectious Disease, 1976

State Licensure

New York, 1972-present  

Barry D. Brause, MD has contributed to the following articles on HSS.edu:

Selected Publications

Insall JN, Thompson FM, Brause BD. Two-stage reimplantation for the salvage of infected total knee arthroplasty. J Bone Joint Surg 84A: 490, 2002 Published as a part of “JBJS Classics”, selected as a classic orthopedic reference for re-publication since the original publication in 1983

Brause, B.D. Osteomyelitis. In Cecil – Textbook of Medicine. 22nd Edition, Eds. L. Goldman, and D. Ausiello, W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, Chapter 315, pp 1827-1829, 2004

Brause, B.D. Infections of the musculoskeletal system.  In: Expert Guide to Rheumatology Eds. A.M.F. Yee and S.A. Paget, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Chapter 15, pp 215-242, 2005

Brause, B.D. Infections with prostheses in bones and joints. In: Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases.  6th Edition, Eds. G.L.Mandell, J.E.Bennett, R. Dolin, Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, Philadelphia, Chapter 100, pp1332-1337, 2005

Aizer, J., Brause, B.D. Osteomyelitis. In: Manual of Rheumatology and Outpatient Orthopedic Disorders.  5th Edition, Eds. S.A. Paget, A. Gibofsky, J.F. Beary III, T.P. Sculco, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, Chapter 48, pp 367-374, 2006

Brause, B.D., Aizer J.  Infectious Arthritis. In: Manual of Rheumatology and Outpatient Orthopedic Disorders. 5th Edition, Eds. S.A. Paget, A. Gibofsky, J.F. Beary III, T.P. Sculco, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, Chapter 46, pp 349-359, 2006

Toulson C, Walcott-Sapp S,  Hur J, Salvati E, Bostrom M, Brause BD, Westrich GH. Treatment of infected total hip arthroplasty with a two-stage reimplantation protocol: update on the last 15 years. J Arthroplasty;  24:1051-1060, 2009

Brause, B.D. Infections with prostheses in bones and joints. In: Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 7th Edition, Eds G.L. Mandell, J.E.Bennett, R. Dolin, Churchill Livingstone, Elsevier, Philadelphia, Chapter 104, pp1469-1474, 2010

Brause, B.D. Postoperative infections in a patient with a prosthetic joint. In: Infectious Diseases. 3rd Edition, Eds  J. Cohen, W.G. Powderly, S.M. Opal, Mosby, Elsevier, Philadelphia, Practice Point Chapter 20, pp 475-477, 2010.

Westrich GH, Walcott-Sapp S, Bornstein LJ, Bostrom MP, Windsor RE, Brause BD. Modern treatment of infected total knee arthroplasty with a 2-stage reimplantation protocol.  J Arthroplasty; 25:1015-21, 1021.e1-2., 2010

For more publications, please see the PubMed listing.  

Research Interests

Diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of orthopedic infections and other musculoskeletal infections