Noted hand surgeon David Friedman, M.D., a general surgeon and board certified plastic surgeon, has been named head of the new section of Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery at Cleveland Clinic in Florida.

Dr. Friedman served nine years as director of hand surgery at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City. He started his career in a full-time academic appointment as assistant professor at the New York University Medical Center in the Division of Plastic Surgery, where he later became the Hand Surgery Fellowship director.