United Brachial Plexus Network, Inc.

Hi evryone,
Has anyone ever heard Dr. Shanack. He issuppose to some great DR.Ihasve an app. with him at the end of next. month.
Thanks

Rusty

Do you mean Dr Shenaq? I've heard of him as an experienced paediatric bpi specialist and he has a good reputation in that field, don't think he specialises in adults but most of them do a few. I'm still trying to find out which of the US specialists has a main interest in adult tbpi, rather than paediatric/obpi, no luck as yet! Ask him what is his main area of expertise/interest in bpi, adults or children, and whether he's published any papers about tbpi treatment/surgery.

Jenny,

I think that Drs. Bishop, Spinner & Shin at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN qualify. They work as a team and have done 3 surgeries in the past 9 days, all on adults. They average about 1 a week over the course of a year.

My son has had two surgeries with Dr. Shenaq at Texas Children's. We feel he's a great surgeon.
Cindy

Dr. Shenaq is a very highly rated brachial plexus specialist. He and Dr. Laurent started the clinic in Texas with the guidance of Dr. Gilbert from Paris. He is the Chief of Plastic Surgery at Baylor. Here is his resume: http://www.texaschildrenshospital.org/R ... son_id=341

Dr. Shenaq did my daughter's primary surgery and has seen her a number of times. I think he is fabulous. He is easy to talk to, will answer any question, does not make you feel stupid because you don't have a medical degree and is a first rate surgeon. I highly recommend him.
I think you will like him.
claudia

Dr. Shenaq did my son's secondary surgery when he was 10.....I was really impressed with him as a surgeon....He's very quiet and I had to really concentrate on hearing his voice(O.K. I'm a little deaf!!!) I think he is a good choice!!
T.

Any tbpi adults going to reply? It's great that these people have had good experiences with Dr Shenaq but they all look like obpi cases to me (maybe I'm wrong tho!) and I can't find any papers he has published about tbpi. As the TCH website itself makes clear, ideally, if you can, get a specialist whose main interest is tbpi. Thanks for your suggestion Gene and also those who have mailed me about this, the names of Tiel & Kline have come up plus I'm told the clinic at either Yale or Harvard (if anyone knows which that would help!) specialises in tbpi. I'll keep looking into it. There must be thousands of tbpi every year in the US, if the 'big' specialist units aren't seeing many of them-where ARE they going?

Dr. Scott Wolfe at the Hospital for Special Surgeries works with adult BPI. Right now he is my first choice. He's highly reputable & is located in the same state which is convenient. You can add him to the list Jenny!