Nicholas Gregory Brown, MD

Dr.Samuel Van de Velde, assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at ColumbiaUniversity Irving Medical Center, is an orthopedic surgeon withNewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group Brooklyn. He treats all aspects of the lowerlimb, including pediatric, adolescent, and young adult hip preservation, andsports pathology of the hip and knee. Dr. Van de Velde has a particular focuson specialized surgical interventions for hip and knee disorders, including:periacetabular Ganz osteotomies, femoral osteotomies, surgical hip dislocationand femoral capital realignment, hip arthroscopy, and anterior cruciateligament reconstruction, multi-ligament reconstruction, and meniscalsurgery. After medical school in Louvain, Belgium, Dr. Van de Velde joined the Bioengineering Laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston where his NIH-funded research was commemorated with a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. While in Boston, Dr. Van de Velde was an Instructor in orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School and completed his master’s degree at the Harvard School of Public Health. He also received the Ruth L. Kirschstein Award from the NIH and won the prestigious O'Donoghue Sports Injury Award together with Thomas J. Gill, IV, MD. After completing his orthopedic surgical training at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, Dr. Van de Velde visited the Royal Children’s Hospital in Australia, and completed a fellowship in pediatric orthopedics at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. He then completed an additional year of specialized training in the diagnosis and treatment of hip pathology in children and young adults in Perth, Australia. Dr. Van de Velde has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and has presented his research at both national and international medical conferences. He is a reviewer for several medical journals and sits on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Sports Medicine. Dr. Van de Velde participated in two medical missions to the Comoros Islands in Africa, where he performed complex limb alignment, corrective surgeries, and trained local providers. He lives with his wife and three children on Park Slope in Brooklyn.

Dr. Moath Hamed is a movement disorders specialist at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 2009. He went to medical school at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, completed his internship at Brooklyn Hospital Center, residency in neurology at the Barrow Neurological Institute in 2017, and movement disorders clinical research fellowship at the University of Alberta in December 2019. He is board certified in adult neurology and a junior member of the American Academy of Neurology and the Movement Disorders Society. He published several peer-reviewed research articles and presented abstracts at the American Academy of Neurology and the International Association of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders meetings.

Nicole Ilonzo, MD, is a vascular surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group Brooklyn, affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. She is an assistant professor of surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine. After graduating from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Ilonzo served her residency in general surgery at Mount Sinai St. Luke's-West Hospital Center and her fellowship in vascular surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. She has published her medical research in the Journal of Vascular Surgery, Annals of Vascular Surgery and American Journal of Surgery.