Professor and Chief, Hand and Upper Extremity Section

Areas of Interest
Hand and Upper Extremity

Biography

Wollstein received her medical degree from Hadassah and Hebrew University Medical School in Jerusalem, Israel, where she remained and completed a multispecialty internship, a residency in orthopedic surgery, and a residency in hand surgery. Wollstein went on to complete clinical fellowships in hand surgery at St. Helier NHS Trust in London; the University of Connecticut, Hartford Hospital; and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Wollstein’s major research interests include wrist structure and function relationships, rehabilitation of the wrist, characterizing wrist anatomy as it varies between ethnicities, radiographic guidelines for surgical functional outcome, development of a novel screening tool for osteoporosis, and development of new surgical and conservative tools for treatment of hand conditions

Education

Medical School
Hadassah and Hebrew University Medical School

Residency
Hadassah and Hebrew University Medical School

Fellowship
St. Helier NHS Trust in London; the University of Connecticut, Hartford Hospital; Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Contact

Campus Address
UAB Highlands

Phone
(205) 934-1041

Email
rwollstein@uabmc.edu