Santa Casa São Paulo - Pavilhão F. Simonsen

São Paulo, Brazil

• Mission: "To promote the physical, psychological, and social well-being of human beings with qualified professionals and updated technology, seeking excellence in service, teaching, and research."
• Vision: "To be recognized for excellence in healthcare service, teaching, research and management."
• Values: “Respect for human beings; teaching and research; valorizing employees; compassion; humanized service; professional excellence; social responsibility; volunteering; an integrated and realistic vision of assistance.”

History of the field of Orthopedics and Traumatology
Founded in 1931, the Orthopedics and Traumatology Department at Santa Casa de São Paulo received the title “Fernandinho Símonsen Pavilion” from the beginning, the name it is known internationally to this day. That year, Prof. of Children's Surgery Luis Manoel de Rezende Puech operated at our institution on the son of the couple Raquel and Roberto Símonsen, a great industrialist, engineer, and economist of the time. The patient Fernando Símonsen was treated, and despite the unfavorable outcome of his illness, his parents, incredibly grateful for his dedication, donated resources to begin the construction of a pavilion dedicated to the treatment of orthopedic conditions, named in honor of their son as “Fernandinho Símonsen Pavilion.”

In this same Pavilion, in 1935, the Brazilian Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology was born, founded in our hospital by professors who were part of the sector's eminent clinical staff. Illustrious names in Brazilian orthopedics, such as Orlando Pinto de Souza, Domingo Define, Bartholomeu Bartolomei, Waldemar de Carvalho Pinto Filho, Rudelli Sérgio Andréa Aristide, and José Soares Hungria, formed the clinical team of professors dedicated to teaching orthopedics in its various specialties throughout the years.

During the years that followed, the Pavilion's corridors housed important institutions, such as the Latin American Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology in 1948, the Chair of Orthopedics at the Faculty of Medicine of USP (1939-1944), the Chair of Orthopedics at the School of Paulista de Medicina (until 1960), the Brazilian Society of Spinal Surgery in 1986, and, currently, the Chair of Orthopedics at the Santa Casa de São Paulo School of Medical Sciences.

The Orthopedics and Traumatology sector at Santa Casa da São Paulo is today considered Brazil's largest resident training center.
Sixty residents undergo medical specialization in the area annually, and 60 doctors take advanced training courses in all orthopedic specialties: pediatric orthopedics, traumatology, shoulder, knee, spine, foot and ankle, hip, hand, and orthopedic oncology. The clinical staff is made up of medical professors from the Santa Casa de São Paulo School of Medical Sciences, with 60 members, in addition to volunteers who are dedicated to teaching and training orthopedics to doctors from all over Brazil and students from other Latin American countries who carry out internships in the sector.

The institution is very important in training excellent professionals with technical and academic competence, seeking the best treatment for patients treated at Santa Casa de São Paulo.

Specialty surgeries and segment of activities of the Foot and Ankle Group: 

• Sports injuries of the ankle and foot: osteochondral lesions, ligament lesions, tendon lesions, arthroscopy.
• Trauma surgery: minimally invasive surgery trauma
• Diabetic foot: Reconstruction, amputation
• Foot and ankle deformities: osteotomies, cartilage repair, tendon transfer, arthrodesis, replacement.
• Congenital: clubfoot and other congenital deformities such as tarsal coalition, congenital vertical talus

Contact us:
Santa Casa São Paulo - Pavilhão F. Simonsen
Orthopaedic Surgery
Rua Dr.Cesário Mota Junior 112
São Paulo, Brazil

Fellowship Director:
Marco Túlio Costa, MD/PHD
Phone: +55 11 98244-2251