# Greater Rochester Orthopaedics

> Experience comprehensive orthopaedics at Greater Rochester Orthopaedics in Rochester, NY\. We provide expert care that moves you\. Call today for an appointment\!

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## Pages
- [Home](https://gro-md.com/)
- [Hand \& Upper Extremity](https://gro-md.com/hand-upper-extremity/)
- [Our Team](https://gro-md.com/our-team/)
- [Lyell\-Gates Office](https://gro-md.com/lyell-gates-office/)
- [Culver Road Office](https://gro-md.com/culver-road-office/)

## Providers
- [Joshua R\. Olsen, MD](https://gro-md.com/provider/joshua-r-olsen-md/): Joshua Olsen, M\.D\. is a board\-certified orthopaedic surgeon, fellowship trained in sports medicine\. In private practice since 2015, his clinical practice includes sports medicine \(including cartilage preservations\), knee reconstruction \(ACL, meniscal repair\), rotator cuff, instability and arthroplasty, total knee replacement, fracture and injury repair\.
Olsen JR, Williams RB, Maloney MD, Miller RJ, Rouse LM, Voloshin I\. Distal Biceps Tendon Repair: A Comparison Suture Anchors vs\. Tension Slide Techniques\. International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery \& Orthopaedic Sports Medicine\. 2013\. Arthroscopy Association of North America ,2013\.

Hunter JG, Olsen JR, Anglen J, DiGiovanni CW, Baumhauer J\. The Most Common Patient Safety Problems in Orthopaedic Surgery of the Foot and Ankle\. American Academy of Orthopaedics Annual Meeting\. 2013\. American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Annual Meeting, 2012\.

Olsen J, Riddle RC, Donahue HJ\. Gap Junctional Intercellular Communication and Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation\. University of Maryland, Baltimore County Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2004\.
- [Benjamin F\. Plucknette, DO, PT, DPT, FAAOS](https://gro-md.com/provider/benjamin-f-plucknette-do/): Benjamin F\. Plucknette is a Board Certified Hand and Orthopaedic Surgeon specializing in treating hand, wrist, and elbow conditions\. Upon completing 16 years of Air Force service, Dr\. Plucknette returned home to Rochester and began practicing at Greater Rochester Orthopaedics in 2024\.

He is the former Chief of the Hand and Microvascular Surgery Division at the San Antonio Military Medical Center \(San Antonio, TX\), the Department of Defense’s only Level\-1 trauma center\. This center included the most extensive military orthopedic surgery residency program in the United States of America and was responsible for treating both military members and civilian trauma patients\. While there, he also served as the Assistant Program Director of Medical Simulation for the Orthopaedic Surgery Residency from 2019 \- 2024\. His military service included a deployment to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, as part of Operations Freedom’s Sentinel/Resolute Support, where he was the Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at Craig Joint Theater Hospital\.

Dr\. Plucknette holds the academic rank of Adjunct Associate Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and is active in a number of professional capacities\. He serves as the Vice Chairman of the Military Relations Committee for the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and participated in their prestigious Young Leaders program in 2022\. He is a reviewer for several of the premier, peer\-reviewed journals in the field of hand surgery\. He continues to give invited lectures multiple times yearly to international and domestic surgeon audiences\. 

He was born and raised in Rochester, New York, to parents who met while serving in the Air Force\. He is married to a fellow Rochester native and has four children\. His family was on the Jimmy Kimmel Show in 2019 after they were the subject of a viral video with over 100 million views \(the kid who shaved siblings' heads\)\. 

- [David A\. Paniccia, PA\-C](https://gro-md.com/provider/david-a-paniccia-pa-c/): David Paniccia, PA\-C is a certified physician assistant, in practice since 2003\. His clinical interests include the care of acute musculoskeletal trauma and chronic orthopaedic conditions in patients of all ages\.
- [Kevin Card, Practice Administrator](https://gro-md.com/provider/kevin-card/): Coming Soon
- [Gregory S\. Finkbeiner, MD](https://gro-md.com/provider/gregory-s-finkbeiner-md/): Gregory S\. Finkbeiner, MD, is a board\-certified orthopaedic surgeon, fellowship trained in foot and ankle disorders\. In private practice since 2002, his clinical practice includes treatment and management of the lower extremity, helping patients overcome pain and disability involving their hip, knee, foot, and ankle, joint replacement surgery of the hip and knee \(primary and revision\), knee arthroscopy, traumatic and acquired foot, and ankle conditions\.

## Categories
- [General Orthopaedic](https://gro-md.com/category/general-orthopaedic/)

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- [Administrator](https://gro-md.com/position/administrator/)

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