Alan Reznik, MD
Advanced Arthroscopic Surgery, Adult & Pediatric Sports Medicine
A Westinghouse Science talent search honoree, Dr. Reznik is board certified in Orthopedics and Arthroscopic surgery, specializing in Sports Medicine. He received his Bachelors of Science from Columbia University's School of Engineering where studying Sudden Infant Death Syndrome he became interested in medicine. Later, an expertise in engineering merged with his love of medicine and while attending Yale University School of Medicine he decided to practice Orthopaedic Surgery. As a resident at Mount Sinai Medical Center in NY, he served as a court physician at the US Open Tennis Tournament and was selected for a fellowship at Oxford University. He then gained further expertise in Sports Medicine at University of California, San Diego with Dr. Dale Daniel, a world-renowned knee ligament expert, and Dr. Raymond Sachs, a ground breaking shoulder expert.
Returning to New Haven, Connecticut, Dr. Reznik was a founding member of the Yale-New Haven Hospital's Orthopaedic Trauma team and awarded the Yale Residents' Teaching Award. He served on the game organizing committee for the 1995 Special Olympics, where he helped care for special athletes from over 105 countries. He was also chosen to be the team physician for the New Haven Knights professional hockey team. Dr. Reznik was a volunteer surgeon on a medical mission to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. The team visited underserved areas and set up a clinic in a domed stadium to care for displaced residents of New Orleans without health care. In 2008, he visited Cuba and Bolivia, Cuba on a humanitarian mission and in Bolivia to see, first-hand, the role of "Save the Children," in the poorest-of-poor countries in South America.
Dr. Reznik was selected by Connecticut Magazine as one of the "Top Docs" in the state by patients, nurses, physicians from other specialties and his Orthopedic Surgeon peers in years 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009 and again in 2010. A member of the Arthroscopy Association of North America since 2001, he has also been named as one of "America 's Top Physicians" by the Consumer's Research Council of America.
Dr. Reznik has invented several instruments for Knee and Shoulder Arthroscopy. He holds a patent on his Universal shoulder positioner and has a number of additional patents pending. His inventions are designed to improve the effectiveness of arthroscopic surgery. His arthroscopic suture grasper is being marketed by Johnson and Johnson and his arm positioning device is being manufactured by Innovative Medical Products.
In an academic private practice for twenty years, Dr. Reznik is the managing partner of The Orthopaedic Group, LLC. He serves on the Board of Directors at Ezra Academy. He enjoys golf. He writes articles for the group's web site, our monthly newsletter, and patient magazine. Alan Reznik, M.D. has been a renowned expert on knee ligament reconstruction and arthroscopic techniques for shoulder and knee repair. He performs minimally invasive ACL reconstruction, uses innovative suture techniques for arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, and, along with Dr. Richard Zell, is a clinical investigator for new grafting techniques for bone defects in the knee. Recently, he received approval on two patents and published The Knee and Shoulder Handbook for All of Us..
