Episode 1: Jesse Jupiter, MD, MA

AO Trauma Hand Sage on Stage Series

This week's sage:

Jesse Jupiter, MD, MA

Hansjörg Wyss AO Professor

Harvard Medical School

Visiting Orthopaedic Surgeon

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Biography

Jesse B. Jupiter, MD, MA is the Hansjoerg Wyss/AO Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard School of Medicine and emeritus director of the Hand and Upper Extremity service at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Jupiter graduated from Brown University Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Classics and was later inducted to the Brown University Athletic Hall of Fame. He earned his MD at Yale in 1972.

In 1975, he began the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program. In 1980, Dr. Jupiter traveled to Basle, Switzerland where he completed an AO Fellowship after which he completed a hand and microvascular fellowship in Louisville, KY.

He returned to Boston in 1981 and began his academic and clinical career at the Massachusetts General Hospital. During his 38 years on the Orthopaedic faculty he has had the opportunity to head the Trauma Service, Foot and Ankle Program and the Hand and Upper Extremity Service. He has had the opportunity to become involved in the training of over 400 Orthopaedic and Plastic surgical residents as well as over 80 Hand and Microsurgical Fellows. Dr. Jupiter was recently named as the first Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Distinguished Alumnus.

Over the course of his career he has had the opportunity to participate in hand surgery workshops and courses in over 50 countries throughout the world educating hundreds of hand surgeons. Dr. Jupiter is an honorary member of more than 25 international societies of either Hand Surgery or Orthopaedic Surgery and 15 national and international editorial boards. He has been named to America's Top Surgeons annually and Best of Boston since 2007. He has received the Physician Recognition Award from the Arthritis Foundation of America, AOA Career Educator Award, Lee Osterman Award for Lifetime Education from the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, and the Albert Niessen Lifetime Award from Marquis Who’s Who.

Dr. Jupiter is an internationally known and sought after hand and upper limb specialist. He has given more than 1000 scientific presentations, 165 Visiting Professorships, and 50 named lectureships. He has published more than 400 original publications, 182 analytic reviews, 160 chapters in scientific texts and was co-author or co-editor of 12 major texts in upper limb and orthopaedic problems. Dr. Jupiter has developed a worldwide reputation, especially related to problems of the wrist and elbow along with all other conditions involving the hand and upper limb.

He has been married to Beryl Stephanie for 47 years and has one daughter Stacy and one grandson Cooper.