NEW
YORK, May 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A feature
film sponsored by NYU Langone Orthopedics, On the Shoulders of
Giants: The History of NYU Langone Orthopedics, has been chosen
to screen in the 23rd Tribeca Festival as an official selection of
the 2024 Tribeca X Award competition.
On the Shoulders of Giants captures NYU Langone
Orthopedics' leadership in innovation and research, upholding a
world-class legacy of orthopedic care. The film also highlights the
department's place in the history of New
York City and its commitment to gender, racial, and cultural
diversity.
NYU Langone Orthopedics will host a private viewing of the film
on June 12 at the Tribeca Screening
Room after the winners of Tribeca X are announced at the awards
ceremony, to be held the day before at Convene One Liberty Plaza in
Manhattan. Tribeca X celebrates
the intersection of storytelling, advertising, and innovation,
spotlighting the very best brand stories of the year.
"There are thousands and thousands of patients benefiting from
NYU Langone Orthopedics," said Joseph D.
Zuckerman, MD, the Walter A. L. Thompson Professor of
Orthopedic Surgery in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, where
he is also chair. "This film shows the trajectory of our department
as an amalgamation, with roots in the beginning of the field at
Bellevue in the 1850s to a humble specialty hospital in a Harlem
brownstone to a powerhouse of innovation and influence in the field
and in our patients' lives. We are pleased that Tribeca Festival is
honoring this special film that tells our story."
The film's narrative chronicles the beginning of NYU Langone's
orthopedic history with Lewis A.
Sayre, who was appointed as Bellevue Medical College's first
professor of orthopedic surgery in 1861. Dr. Sayre is considered by
many to be the father of orthopedic surgery in North America. His innovative treatments
included developing a treatment for scoliosis by putting
patients in traction and wrapping them in casts. From there, his
trainees Herman and Henry
Frauenthal, sons of a shoemaker, started NYU's first orthopedic hospital, the Jewish
Hospital for Deformities and Joint Diseases, in a brownstone in
Harlem. This ultimately became NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital.
On the Shoulders of Giants also highlights NYU Langone's
commitment to diversifying the field by spotlighting Marian Frauenthal Sloane, Herman's daughter, who
became the first female surgeon to publish in a U.S. orthopedic
journal, a feat she accomplished while sewing bandages for the
hospital in her spare time. The film also features its physicians
bringing orthopedic innovation to the
United States by traveling the world—as far as Siberia—to
provide patients with the best possible techniques at a later
iteration of the hospital—the Hospital for Joint Diseases—when it
moved to its present location.
"It has been a privilege to work on the legacy of NYU Langone
Orthopedics," said filmmaker Peter
Sanders. "The nearly 40 interviews that were conducted with
specialists in the various subspecialties have created a rich
tapestry of ideas and discussions of procedures in a wide range of
areas of expertise. The film is both an oral history of the
department and its hospitals and its institutional predecessors and
a document that preserves the contributions of clinicians and
scientists."
The historical parts of the movie are interspersed with an
up-close view of real orthopedic surgeries, expertly correcting
sometimes brutally traumatic injuries or repairing an athlete's
injury to get him back into the game. Other bird's-eye views into
the operating room show how the institution's surgeons pioneered
innovative techniques such as arthroscopic surgery.
"Our doctors are truly engineers of the human body—whether
they're helping the average person get back on their feet or
fine-tuning an elite athlete to perform their best," said
Kenneth A. Egol, MD, the Joseph E.
Milgram Professor of Orthopedic Surgery in the Department of
Orthopedic Surgery, where he is also vice chair. "What we've
achieved in patient care, research, and innovation is the result of
standing on the shoulders of orthopedic giants highlighted in this
film, and we are so grateful for Peter's vision in creating this
work."
NYU Langone Orthopedics continues to deliver the world's best
treatments, including the most advanced sports medicine care and
robotic techniques. It also trains more orthopedic surgeons than
any other institution in the United
States. NYU Langone is ranked No. 4 in the nation for
orthopedics by U.S. News & World Report, and NYU Langone
Orthopedics performs more than 34,000 orthopedic procedures
annually by more than 200 orthopedic physician faculty.
See the film's trailer on Vimeo.
Media Inquiries
Marlene
Naanes
Phone: 646-754-5016
Marlene.Naanes@NYULangone.org
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