Robert Taffet, M.D.

Dr. Taffet addresses injuries to the musculoskeletal system with extensive experience in managing injuries from slip and fall, sports, workplace/industrial accidents, and all types of vehicular trauma. He offers expert opinion on causality, mechanism of injury, treatment of injuries, and outcomes. Dr. Taffet has been involved in orthopedic implant development and design as a consultant and offers expertise in this area as well.

Dr. Taffet is an orthopedic surgeon whose background includes 18 years of clinical practice. Dr. Taffet has extensive experience in management of the multiply injured patient with orthopedic injuries. Mechanism of injury and patterns of injury as well as causality were an integral part of his training and surgical practice. His subspecialty training included a fellowship in orthopedic traumatology. During his first 10 years of practice, Dr. Taffet worked in level I trauma centers managing patients with orthopedic injuries, either isolated or multiple, often with associated injuries and complex high energy fractures. His trauma practice included surgery performed on the spine, extremities, and pelvis. He managed both adult and pediatric patients in level I trauma centers and also in an elective practice. In his elective practice, in addition to caring for patients with orthopedic injuries of all types, he had a busy lower extremity reconstructive surgery practice involving hip and knee replacement surgery as well as lower extremity arthroscopic surgical procedures. As part of both his trauma background and elective practice he performed foot and ankle reconstructive surgery.

Dr. Taffet’s training included a one year internship in general surgery and a four year residency in orthopedic surgery in the Bronx, New York metropolitan area, offering him exposure to a great variety and volume of orthopedic problems referred to tertiary care centers. His trauma fellowship was sponsored by AO North America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of patient care in orthopedic surgery. He has been a faculty member of AO North America since 1994.

Dr. Taffet has consulted on issues involving product design for orthopedic trauma implants. His research background includes clinical studies involving orthopedic trauma, with publications and presentations related to both upper and lower extremity trauma. Dr. Taffet is currently practicing non-operative orthopedics in southern New Jersey.

Taffet R, Ricci A, Catalano YJ, Wilkens K, Chekemian B. A feasibility and safety study using Less Invasive Stabilization System (LISS) for Treatment of Distal Femur Fractures. The American Journal of Orthopaedics; 2004 Aug.

Taffet R. Guest Editor. Trauma to the Adult Pelvis and Hip. The Orthopaedic Clinics of North America 1997 Jul; 28(3).

Taffet R. Management of pelvic fractures with concomitant urologic injury. The Orthopaedic Clinics of North America 1997 Jul; 28(3):389–396.

Iannacone WM, Taffet R. Early exchange intramedullary nailing of distal femoral fractures with vascular injury initially stabilized with external fixation. Journal of Trauma 1994 Sept.

Posters/Presentations

Taffet R. Fractures of the tibial plateau, fractures of the distal femur: Indications/techniques for internal fixation. Presented at the AO/ASIF Orthopaedic Trauma: Team Approach to Fracture Management Course, Meadowlands, NJ, February 25–26, 2000.

Taffet R. External fixation of tibial fractures. Presented at AO/ASIF Nursing Continuing Education, Basic Operating Room Personnel Course, King of Prussia, PA, October 1–2, 1999.

Taffet R. Traumatic hip dislocations in children and adolescents. Paper presented at the 66th Annual American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Meeting, Anaheim, CA, February 1999.

Taffet R. Are two views sufficient for classification and treatment? Poster presented at the AAOS Meeting, The Ankle Fracture Radiograph Series, Bronx, NY, 1997.

Taffet R. Retrograde nailing of femoral shaft and distal femoral fractures: Indications and surgical technique. Presented at the Synthes Annual Sales Meeting, Tucson, AZ, November 1997.

Taffet R. Early exchange intramedullary nailing of distal femoral fractures with vascular injury initially stabilized with external fixation. Presented at the Western Trauma Association Meeting, Crested Butte, CO, March 1995.

Taffet R. The influence of time to debridement and stabilization on infection in Grade II and Grade III Open Tibial Fractures. AAOS Resident Conference 1994.

• Fellow, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons