Bryan Kelly, MD, MBA

HSS CEO

Dr. Kelly is a specialist in sports medicine injuries and arthroscopic and open surgical management of non-arthritic disorders around the hip. He is the President, Surgeon-in-Chief and Medical Director of the Hospital for Special Surgery and former Chief of the Sports Medicine and Shoulder Service. He has faculty appointments at New York Presbyterian’s Weill Cornell Medical College as well as the Hospital for Special Surgery. He cares for several sports teams serving as Head Team Physician for the New York Rangers an Associate Team Physician for the New York Giants, Head Orthopaedic Consultant for UFC, and several collegiate teams in the tri-state region.

After the completion of his residency at HSS in 2001, Dr. Kelly completed a two-year fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery, specializing in Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery. Dr. Kelly then completed a fellowship in Hip Sports Injuries and Arthroscopy at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Center for Sports Medicine, under the direction of Dr. Marc J. Philippon, MD. Prior to starting his practice he also completed an AO International Traveling Fellowship where he spent time with Dr. Herbert Resch at the Landeskliniken Hospital in Salzburg, Austria. He has also spent time with Professor Reinhold Ganz and Dr. Michael Leunig in Bern and Zurich, Switzerland studying advanced techniques in open surgical management of hip injury and deformity through an AO Surgical Preceptorship.

Dr. Kelly currently serves as Surgeon-in-Chief and Medical Director and Attending Physician on the Sports Medicine Service as well as Co-Director for the Center for Hip Preservation at the Hospital for Special Surgery which is designed to provide multi-disciplinary care for patients at all levels with hip injuries. He has a broad range of both clinical and basic science research interests including the development of a clinical outcomes registry; biomechanical studies evaluating conflict patterns in femoroacetabular impingement and techniques in labral refixation; development of synthetic scaffolds for labral reconstruction and cartilage injuries in the hip; and the development of novel surgical techniques for managing soft tissue injuries around the hip joint. He has authored over 200 scientific publications, chapters, review articles, and books.