alumni include: Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, M.D., attending orthopaedic surgeon, HSS John Robert Cobb, known for the Cobb angle, head of the Margaret Caspary scoliosis clinic, HSS John Insall, M.D., attending orthopedic surgeon, HSS David B. Levine, M.D., director of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, HSS Paula J. Olsiewski, founder and director, Technology Development Office, HSS Leon Root, M.D., chief of pediatric orthopedics, HSS Francisco Valero-Cuevas, assistant scientist (biomechanical engineer), HSS Philip D. Wilson Jr., M.D., surgeon-in-chief 1972-1989 Surgeons-in-chief 1863 - James A. Knight 1887 - Virgil P. Gibney 1925 - William Bradley Coley 1933 - Eugene H. Pool 1935 - Philip D. Wilson 1955 - T. Campbell Thompson 1963 - Robert Lee Patterson, Jr. 1972 - Philip D. Wilson Jr. 1990 - Andrew J. Weiland 1993 - Russell F. Warren 2003 - Thomas P. Sculco 2014 - Todd J. Albert 2019 - Bryan T. Kelly Physicians-in-chief 1924 - R. Garfield Snyder 1944 - Richard Freyberg 1970 - Charles L. Christian 1995 - Stephen A. Paget 2010 - Mary K. Crow 2020 - S. Louis Bridges, Jr. References External links Hospital buildings completed in 1870 Hospitals in Manhattan Teaching hospitals in New York City NewYork–Presbyterian Healthcare System Hospitals established in 1883