The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery is pleased to welcome Rachel Aliotta, M.D., as assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery. Aliotta will specialize in hand and reconstructive surgery in the hand and upper extremity service.

Aliotta completed residency training in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio in 2020. Subsequently, she pursued further specialization by undertaking a fellowship in hand and upper extremity surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2021. In the same year, upon completion of her fellowship, she joined UAB and the Birmingham VA healthcare system as an assistant professor with a dual academic appointment in the Departments of Surgery and Orthopaedics. 

Her clinical interests include hand and wrist surgery, hand trauma, orthoplastic reconstruction, limb salvage, and post-amputation targeted muscle reinnervation.