Dr. Blitz is a leading authority on Major Reconstructive Foot Surgery. He is Chief of Foot Surgery and Associate Chairman of Orthopaedics at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital in New York.

He is known as an innovator as he has developed cutting edge surgical treatment protocols, algorithms, and surgical techniques.

Over the past decade, Dr. Blitz has over 50 publications related to Foot & Ankle Surgery within peer-reviewed medical journals, magazines, medical posters, blogs, and surgical textbooks. Dr. Blitz performed important clinical research that has won awards in the field of Foot & Ankle Surgery.

He has a national reputation, as he has lectured to his surgical colleagues both nationally and abroad. He has written a philosophical Guest Editorial in the Journal of Foot & Ankle Surgery. Dr. Blitz also served a Guest Editor of the Clinics in Podiatric Medicine & Surgery on the Pediatric and Adolescent Flat Foot. His most recent peer-reviewed multi-center publication involves Early Walking after Lapidus Bunionectomy.

In addition to clinical practice, Dr. Blitz holds other trademarks and patents in surgical medical devices and health related products. To learn more about Dr. Blitz, visit nealblitz.com.

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