The UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Orthopaedic Trauma Institute are pleased to welcome David Lowenberg, MD, to our faculty as a professor.
About Dr. David Lowenberg
Dr. David Lowenberg, MD, specializes in treating bone infections, nonunions, and limb salvage. Dr. Lowenberg received his undergraduate degree at UC Davis, his medical degree at UCLA, and his internship and residency in orthopaedic surgery at UCSF. Following residency, he practiced as a full-time faculty member in the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery at UCSF and Stanford University School of Medicine.
This fall, he has relocated back to UCSF from Stanford, where he will continue supporting a program for treating musculoskeletal ailments he developed throughout his career.
He is a past President of the Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society of North America, Past President of the Foundation for Orthopaedic Trauma, and Past-President of the Osteosynthesis and Trauma Care Foundation International (OTC International), which is composed of 24 chapters around the world with a membership of over 4,000 orthopaedic traumatologists. He is a Distinguished Landstuhl Scholar with the Department of Defense.
His clinical and research interests are treating osteomyelitis and nonunions, fracture biomechanics, and basic science of musculoskeletal infections and biofilm. He is well-published in limb salvage and the treatment of devastating limb injuries. He is also co-director of the Buncke Microsurgical Research Laboratory, where his research was on perfecting techniques for limb transplantation via immunotolerance.
He has 75 peer-reviewed articles and book chapter publications and over 450 regional, national, and international lectures on osteomyelitis, nonunions, malunions, and trauma.
