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Dr. Craig H Lichtblau

MD, Rehabilitation Director of Osteointegration Program
Dr. Lichtblau graduated Washington University Medical Center after completing a four-year residency in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. He is board certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Brain Injury Medicine. Dr. Lichtblau has been in private practice in West Palm Beach since 1989 to the present. Dr. Lichtblau did a Fellowship in Limb Reconstruction with Dr. Dror Paley from October 20, 2012, until September 30, 2016 participating in weekly teaching conferences, attending patient clinics, assisting in surgery, and being involved in clinical research projects. Dr. Lichtblau maintains active surgical assist privileges at St. Mary’s Medical Center, and continues to assist Dr. Paley in certain surgical procedures including all rotationplasty and osteointegration surgery.
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Dr. Lichtblau has traveled internationally to assist Dr. Paley in surgery on medical mission trips to Managua, Nicaragua organized by the Paley Foundation. He has also assisted Dr. Paley in surgery at the Paley European Institute in Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Lichtblau traveled with Dr. Paley to Sidney, Australia to train in osseointegration surgery under Dr. Munjed Al Muderis in 2016. He presented scientific research papers at International Symposium on Innovations in Amputation Surgery and Prosthetic Technologies in Vienna, Austria, International Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society in Brisbane, Australia 2016, Lisbon, Portugal 2017, and Liverpool, England 2019. He annually participates in the Congenital Deficiencies Live Surgical Tutorial each January (2016 to 2021).

Dr. Lichtblau has co-authored two published research studies:1) Stature Lengthening Using the Precise Intermedullary Nail, Techniques in Orthopedics, 2015, Volume 30, No. 3, pp. 167-182 (2015); 2) Rotationplasty for Severe Congenital Femoral Deficiency, Children, 2021, Volume 8, pp. 462-485.

Paley Institute Specialties

Experience

  • State of Florida — Children’s Medical Services

1989 – Present

  • March 1990 to April 2006

Medical Director Trauma/Hospital Consultations
Pediatric Consultations
Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit Admissions, Adult/Pediatric (6,223 Admissions) St. Mary’s Hospital Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit
St. Mary’s Medical Center/Trauma Center

  • May 2006 to Present

West Palm Beach, Florida Trauma Consultations, Adult/Pediatric
Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit Admissions, Adult/Pediatric

  • June 1, 2009

St. Mary’s Medical Center/Trauma Center
West Palm Beach, Florida Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Consultant
Inpatient Rehabilitation, Adult/Pediatric
Paley Orthopedic & Spine Institute

  • April 5, 2010 to Present

St. Mary’s Medical CenterWest Palm Beach, Florida
Founding Medical Director for Lif

  • May 28, 2014

NInpatient Rehabilitation Unit St. Mary’s Medical Center West Palm Beach, Florida
Founding Medical Director

  • September 2016 to Present

Medical Director Osseointegration Program,
Physical Medicine, and Rehabilitation Consultant to
Paley Orthopedic & Spine Institute at St. Mary’s Medical Center

  • Publications

International Journal of
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

  • Resident, Orthopedic Surgery

NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases,
1989 – 1993

  • Intern, General Surgery

New York University Hospital
1988 – 1989

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