The Hand Center of San Antonio is in the middle of interviewing bright, talented Orthopaedic and Plastic Surgery residents from across the country for a place in our Hand and Microvascular Surgery Fellowship Class of 2017-2018.

The Hand Center would like to welcome it's newest resident participating in our Spanish Exchange program, Dr. Gloria Talavera.

As we look forward to time with family and friends and spectacular firework shows, we would like to take this opportunity to talk about firework safety.

We are proud to have had Dr. Medoff travel all the way from Hawaii to San Antonio to help teach our Hand Surgery Fellows and local Orthopaedic Surgery Residents more about Fragment-Specific Fixation of complex distal radius fractures.

On August 1st, we enjoyed an amazing night of baseball and camaraderie at Nelson Wolff Municipal Stadium when we said good-bye to our 2014-15 fellows and also welcomed in our 2015-16 group!

Today is a bittersweet day for us. Today, three incredibly talented young surgeons will complete their fellowship training in upper extremity and microvascular surgery here at the Hand Center of San Antonio and will move on to wonderful practices across the country.

A BIG Hand Center “Thumb’s up!” to Becky Hammon in leading the San Antonio Spurs Summer League team through 7 hard fought games, ultimately becoming the 2015 Samsung NBA Summer League Champions!

If you have fireworks left over after the July 4th celebrations, remember to continue to exercise caution and practice fireworks safety to avoid hand injuries and other accidents. Fireworks can still cause serious injuries...even after the holidays. We tend to see many hand injuries that could have been avoided by following simple fireworks safety guidelines.