Amy Kells, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
To request an appointment with Dr. Kells, please call (314) 362-7388 or request an appointment online.
Overview
Patients Seen
Adults and Children
Specialties
- Hand and wrist surgery
- Nerve surgery
Common conditions treated
- Hand and wrist fractures
- Nerve injury
- Nerve compression
- Hand and wrist arthritis
- Congenital hand anomalies
- Dupuytren’s disease
- Soft-tissue injuries in upper and lower extremities
- Sternal reconstruction following mediastinitis
Education
Board Certification
American Board of Surgery
American Board of Plastic Surgery
Subspecialty Certification in Hand Surgery
Medical School
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Medical Scientist Training Program, Nashville, Tenn., 1993
Residency
1999 General Surgery Residency, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
2010 Plastic Surgery Residency, University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Galveston, Texas
Fellowship
2005 Plastic Hand Surgery Fellowship, New York University School of Medicine, New York, N.Y.
2006 Orthopedic Hand Surgery Fellowship, SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, N.Y.
2007 Complex Wound Fellowship, University of Mississippi, Jackson, Mich.
2011 Microsurgery Fellowship, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif.
Memberships
- American Society for Surgery of the Hand
- American Association for Hand Surgery
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons
- American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery
Research
- Hand and wrist surgery