Charles S Day, MD, MBA

Biographical Statement

Charles S. Day, MD, MBA, has recently been appointed to be the System Director of Value Specialty Care at Henry Ford Health System. He is also the Vice Chair of Academics and Chief of Hand Surgery in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Service Line. He holds dual academic appointments as a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at both Wayne State University School of Medicine as well as Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He is a nationally renowned expert in hand, and wrist surgery with over 20 years of clinical experience.

Dr. Day moved to Michigan in 2019, and previously served as the Chief of Orthopedic Hand & Upper Extremity Surgery at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston from 2016 to 2019 and 2005 to 2015, respectively. He was also an Associate Professor in Orthopedic Surgery and the Director of the Orthopaedic Curriculum at Harvard Medical School from 2009 – 2016.

He has published over 95 peer reviewed papers and 40 chapters/ books. He has won numerous awards throughout his career, including 2022 Diversity Award at the American Association for Hand Surgery, 2011 American Orthopaedic Association – American, British, Canadian Fellowship Award, 2011 Sterling Bunnell Fellowship Award of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, and the 2010 Excellence in Mentoring Award from Harvard Medical School.

Titles

• System Medical Director, Value Based Specialty Care in Center for Health Policy & Research
• Vice Chair of Academics & Value in Orthopaedic Surgery Dept & Service Line
• Chief, Orthopaedic Hand Surgery
• Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine
• Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

Care Philosophy

I look forward to the opportunity of serving the medical needs of the patients of southeast Michigan and providing them with enhanced access to high quality care for their hand, wrist and elbow treatment needs at the Henry Ford Health.

Academics and Research

Research Interests

His clinical outcomes research over the last 20 years include value based specialty care (spine, joint replacement, liver transplant, cancer, ophthalmology, ENT, etc.), sports related wrist ligament injuries, traumatic wrist and hand fractures, radiographic outcomes, pain evaluation, postoperative scarring, carpal tunnel syndrome, thumb arthritis and wrist/hand joint replacements.

He has been invited for numerous lectures, including, the Mayo clinic; Hospital of Special Surgery; Oxford University; Columbia; Barcelona, Spain; Lyon, France; Tokyo, Japan; Beijing, China and Australia.

Awards and Honors

• Co-Chair, Mosaic Clinical Integration Network, Specialty Advisory Council
• Top Doc for Hand Surgery, Hour Detroit Magazine (2023-2025)
• Diversity Award, American Association for Hand Surgery, 2022
• Top Doctor, Boston Magazine (2011 – 2015)
• Co-Chair, ACGME Hand Surgery Fellowship Milestones Committee (2014)

Dr. Day is also a long standing member of the American Orthopaedic Association, American Society for Surgery of the Hand and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery.

CV

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