Knee1.com Honors Dr. Nicholas Sgaglione As a Knee Care Hero Citing His Work to Improve Articular Cartilage Injury Repairs
Cambridge, MA, March 25, 2002: Dr. Nicholas Sgaglione is Knee1.com's newest Knee Care Hero. Dr. Sgaglione is head of the Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Division and Senior Assistant Attending Surgeon at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, Long Island, New York. Of his work in orthopedics and sports medicine, Dr. Sgaglione finds a great deal of satisfaction, "It is very gratifying to deal with this type of patient and to make a difference in terms of getting (them) back to increased activity. The best thing in life is to be doing something in which you like what you do." Dr. Sgaglione is also a clinical consultant with Smith & Nephew Endoscopy and, since early 2000, has helped with the development of the all-arthroscopic, suture-based meniscal repair system known as FasT-Fix.
Body1, Inc. was founded in February 1999 to provide on-line health and wellness information to consumers. The company focuses on interactively communicating with patients by partnering with technology innovators and collecting the leading voices and experts in a specific field into one place-a Knowledge Cooperative (KnowCo). Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, within five miles of Harvard, MIT and the world's largest concentration of teaching hospitals, Body1's founding group includes physicians, medical writers, business executives and computer specialists from these institutions.
Knee1.com, a Body1, Inc. KnowCo, offers comprehensive knee information, accomplished through news features, technology reports, searchable databases of the most prevalent knee conditions and possible treatments as well as interactive tools where patients can tell their knee stories and ask doctors questions. Knee1 is sponsored by medical technology titan Smith + Nephew and Genzyme Biosurgery. The Knee Care Hero series serves to spotlight the leading knee surgeons whose exceptional accomplishments exemplify what medicine can achieve.
