Shahan V. Yacoubian, M.D.



 

My approach to care….

 My mission is to provide outstanding Orthopaedic care to my patients. I strongly believe in maximizing non-operative treatment options before any surgical procedure is considered. This goal requires expert knowledge of a patient's problems and effective state-of-the-art treatment solutions. A multifaceted approach is utilized involving: a thorough understanding of the patient's needs, use of modern diagnostic modalities, treatment with multiple conservative measures, and ultimately advanced surgical techniques when absolutely necessary.

My fellowship training at Harvard's Brigham & Women's Hospital in adult reconstructive and joint replacement surgery allows me to care for a wide spectrum of joint disease from the initial onset of cartilage degradation to complex joint replacement surgery.

I have extensive surgical experience in the care of arthritis patients using advanced operative techniques in Cartilage Preservation Procedures (ACI/Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation), Osteotomies, Partial Knee Replacements, Total Joint Replacements (with minimally invasive techniques), Complex Revisions, and Fracture surgery.

Specialty
Primary & Revision Joint Replacement
Adult Reconstruction / Arthroplasty
Orthopaedic Trauma/Fracture Care 

Board Certification
American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (Board Eligible, 2005)     

Training
 Harvard Medical School – Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston
Fellow, Adult Reconstruction / Arthroplasty, 2005-2006 

Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Montefiore Medical Center, New York City
Orthopaedic Surgery Chief Resident, 2004-2005
Orthopaedic Surgery Resident, 2001-2004
Surgical Intern, 2000-2001  

Education
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey
M.D., 1996-2000 

University of California, San Diego
B.S. in Biology, 1992-1996 

Affiliated Hospital
Providence Saint Joseph Hospital, Burbank

Membership
 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery

Honors & Awards
 Leo M. Davidoff Society, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Richard Selznik Award for Outstanding Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Current Concepts Foundation Scholarship Recipient

Publications
Shahan V. Yacoubian MD, Richard Scott MD.  “Skin Incision Translation in Total Knee Arthroplasty:  The difference between Flexion and Extension.”  In Press. Journal of Arthroplasty. 2007.

Steinberg EL, Geller DS, Yacoubian SV, Shasha N, Dekel S, Lorich DG. “Intramedullary fixation of tibial shaft fractures using an expandable nail: early results of 54 acute tibial shaft fractures.” Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma. 2006 May;20(5):303-9;

Gardner, Michael J. MD; Yacoubian, Shahan MD; Geller, David MD; Pode, Matthew PA-C; Mintz, Douglas MD; Helfet, David L. MD; Lorich, Dean G. MD.  “Prediction of Soft-Tissue Injuries in Schatzker II Tibial Plateau Fractures based on Measurements of Plain Radiographs.”  Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care. 60(2):319-324, February 2006.

Michael Gardner MD, Shahan Yacoubian MD, David Geller MD,  Michael Suk MD, JD, MPH, Douglas Mintz MD, Hollis Potter MD,  David Helfet MD, Dean Lorich MD. “The incidence of soft tissue injuries in operative tibial plateau fractures.” Journal Of Orthopaedic Trauma 2005;19:79-84.

Geller D, Yacoubian S, Leo A, Lorich D, Helfet D. “Intramedullary fixation of humeral shaft fractures using an inflatable nail.” Orthopedics 2003;26(10):1011-4.

Lorich DG, Yacoubian S, Geller D. “An Innovative Mode of Intramedullary Fixation-Case Report".  Accepted for publication in International Review of Modern Surgery.

Sonderbye L, Feng S, Yacoubian S, Buehler H, Ahsan N, Mulligan R, Langhoff E.  “In vivo and in vitro Modulation of Immune stimulatory Capacity of Primary Dendritic cells by Adenovirus-Mediated Gene Transduction.”  Experimental and Clinical Immunogenetics 1998; 15:100-111.

Yacoubian S, “Screening of Human Genome for the promoter sequence of p55 gene through plaque hybridization”  Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Medical School Research Project, 1997-1998

Yacoubian S, Zangwill L, “Analysis of retinal cup to disk ratio in glaucoma by laser topographical imagery.”  Undergraduate Research in the Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego (1996)
 


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Orthopaedic Surgery Specialists - Sixty years of outstanding Orthopaedic care to adults and children

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2625 West Alameda Avenue    *    Suite 116    *    Burbank California    *    91505    (818) 841-3936