Frederick Ballet, MD (Emeritus)

Frederick Ballet, MD (Emeritus)

Frederick L. Ballet, M.D. is the founding physician of the Hand Surgery and Rehabilitation Center of New Jersey. His efforts have shaped the hand center into an all inclusive - surgeons, physiatrist, anesthesiologists, therapists, ambulatory surgical suite - regional center for expert care of the upper extremity. His personal interests are in the treatment of disorders of the wrist and wrist reconstruction.

Dr. Ballet received his B.S. cum laude from Brooklyn College and his M.D. degree from the New York Medical College. He was an intern/resident in general surgery at Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center in New York.

He completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at the Hospital for Joint Diseases/Orthopaedic Institute in New York. He was awarded the H. Frauenthal Traveling Fellowship Scholarship, and received his hand surgery training at the Connecticut Combined Hand Surgery Fellowship.

He has held teaching appointments at the Cooper University Medical Center and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Rutgers Medical School at Camden.

He has published articles, and presented at national and international meetings. He is an active member of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Dr. Ballet in on the medical staff of the Virtua Health System. In May 2002, Dr. Ballet was voted a "Top Doc" by Philadelphia Magazine.