Dr. Sommer Hammoud is an ABOS Board Certified Associate Professor of orthopaedic surgery at Thomas Jefferson University and specializes in sports related injuries of the knee, shoulder and elbow. She completed her residency at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.
Dr. Hammoud's fellowship in sports medicine was completed in the Harvard program at Massachusetts General Hospital.During her fellowship, she served as an assistant team physician in the care of the Boston Red Sox, New England Revolution, and Boston Bruins and served as the head team physician for Curry College athletics.Her clinical interests include anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructions, multi-ligament knee injuries, knee meniscus tears, shoulder instability and labral tears, as well as rotator cuff repair.Dr. Hammoud has a special interest in sports-related injuries of the female athlete.
Education
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Sports Medicine Fellow
- Hospital for Special Surgery, Resident in Orthopaedic Surgery
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital/New York Weill Cornell Center, Intern in General Surgery
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD
- University of California, Los Angeles, Bachelor of Sciences
