Meniscus Repairs and the Value of a Strong Doctor-Physicians Assistant Partnership with Dr. Milt Zgonis and PA Lisa Victorius
Season 3, Episode 2 | Podcast #38
Dr. Milt Zgonis, M.D. is an Orthopedic Surgeon with Penn Medicine and the Co-Director of their Human Tissue Laboratory. He received his medical degree from Albany Medical College and completed his 6 year residency and lab research with Penn Medicine. He then went on to complete a fellowship in orthopedics and sports medicine at Duke.
Lisa Victorius, PA-C is an alumna of South Carolina University and completed her Physicians Assitant Education at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago. They have worked together for over seven years.
In this episode, we cover:
1:30:00 Milt Zgonis’ and Lisa Victorius’s backgrounds in athletics and medicine.
2:45 How a background in sports and athletics has helped Victorius and Zgonis while practicing medicine.
3:20 The identity crisis athletes have when they sustain an injury.
4:00 How Zgonis’ love for martial arts growing up and his sister had an ACL tear that resulted in major complications pushed him into the field of sports medicine.
5:00 How Dr.Zgonis’ experience at Duke University’s Athletic program prepared him to work with professional athletes in the Philadelphia area like the Sixers.
“Treat every person like they are a high-level athlete and get them back to whatever it is they want to do.”
9:00 What is a typical patient that Dr. Zgonis and Victorius see? Why there is no average patient, and how each one is so different
10:00 Zgonis’s focus and passion for meniscus research and innovation
12:00 How Zgonis approaches meniscus tears and what innovation is happening in the field regarding meniscus reconstruction
12:45 if a joint is going to be repairable it’s going to be before its all macerated and wreck any repairable tissue
“In orthopedic sports medicine, probably our generations greatest challenge is repairing and restoring meniscal function.”
14:20 What about the meniscus makes it so easily compromised and why is it so difficult to repair?
14:40 What is the meniscus?
16:00 Why the meniscus has almost no healing capacity?
17:00 The mechanical effects on the rest of the body after a meniscus injury
18:20 Why we don’t have a good way of predicting what people will be like long term?
19:00 When and why are Arthroscopies needed to treat meniscus issues?
20:00 How has the dynamic between Dr. Zgonis and Victorius as a PA worked so well in their office for the past seven years? How Victorius approaches educating the patient to supplement Dr.Zgonis’ work.
23:00 What complex procedures are they seeing in their office?
28:00 Patients want a doctor’s honest opinion and candor
32:00 The trust that physicians and physical therapists need to have with each other
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