Ollie
Edmunds, MD
Visiting Professor of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation
Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Institute
Professor of Orthopaedics
Chief of Hand Surgery
Tulane University
Dr.
Edmunds is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Tulane University
School of Medicine in New Orleans. He is the Chief of Hand and Upper
Extremity Surgery at Tulane University Medical Center, Charity Hospital
in New Orleans, and the VA Hospital in New Orleans.
He is an expert in complex cases of hand, wrist, and upper extremity trauma, fractures, tendon injuries, nerve injuries, nerve compression, arthritis, deformities, diseases, cerebral palsy, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, congenital anomalies, and hemophilia. He manages complex referral cases of nerve injuries, brachial plexus injuries, tendon lacerations, and tendon transfers for nerve paralysis. He does arthrodesis, osteotomy, total joint arthroplasty, tendolysis, palmar fasciectomy for Dupuytren's contracture, rheumatoid joint reconstruction, upper extremity bone and soft tissue tumors, wrist and elbow arthroscopy, repair of complex wrist carpal fractures and instability, endoscopic carpal tunnel release, and microvascular reconstruction.
He also has expertise in total joint replacement of the knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, and wrist. He has special expertise in hemophiliac arthropathy and rheumatoid arthritis. In addition to hand and hemophilia he also does general orthopaedics and trauma with special expertise in acetabular and other complex fractures.
Dr. Edmunds graduated with a BS from Stanford University in 1962, studied at Oxford University in England, and graduated from the University of Florida, College of Medicine in 1967 with an MD degree. After active duty as a flight surgeon in the US Navy he did his residency training in Orthopaedic Surgery and a post residency fellowship in hand and microvascular surgery at Duke University from 1971 through 1976. He joined the Tulane University faculty in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery where he has taught on the faculty from 1976 to the present. He is director of medical student education in orthopaedic surgery at Tulane and is very active in orthopaedic surgery residency education. He is the director of orthopaedic surgery for the Louisiana Hemophilia Center. He is the Associate Director of the Orthopaedic Residency Training Program.
He is certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and holds additional Added Qualifications in Surgery of the Hand. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, American Orthopaedic Foot Society, the Orthopaedic Research Society, and the Clinical Orthopaedic Society. He was elected as a member of the distinguished American Orthopaedic Association and is Past President of the Southern Orthopaedic Association. He is a member of the medical staffs of Tulane University Medical Center, Memorial Baptist Medical Center, Touro Infirmary, Children’s Hospital, Charity Hospital in New Orleans, and the Huey P Long Charity Hospital in Pineville.
His hobbies are photography, music, and growing trees. He is President of Gualala Redwoods, Inc., general partner of Russian River Redwoods and Sonoma Coast Associates in California. He is President of Verdie Forest, Inc., in Florida. He is the managing member of Abita Springs Timber Company, LLC, and the President of Delta Pacific, Inc., in Louisiana. He is the Chairman of the Sequoia Foundation and the Vice Chairman of the Gualala Foundation. He is the Chairman of the Aesculapius Foundation. He is the Chairman of the Aesculapius Research Group and is CEO of its affiliate, Aesculapius Technologies, LLC, a medical information technology company. Aesculapius designs sophisticated internet based secure HIPAA compliant medical database software for academic health science centers. He is married to Karen Oser Edmunds, an artist at the Studio Inferno, has four children. He and his wife have temporarily relocated to Nashville where his daughter lives due to Hurricane Katrina.