May 17 2024NYU Langone
NYU Langone Orthopedics will host a private viewing of the film on June 12 at the Tribeca Screening Room after the winners of Tribeca X are announced at the awards ceremony, to be held the day before at Convene One Liberty Plaza in Manhattan. Tribeca X celebrates the intersection of storytelling, advertising, and innovation, spotlighting the very best brand stories of the year.
The film's narrative chronicles the beginning of NYU Langone's orthopedic history with Lewis A. Sayre, who was appointed as Bellevue Medical College's first professor of orthopedic surgery in 1861. Dr. Sayre is considered by many to be the father of orthopedic surgery in North America. His innovative treatments included developing a treatment for scoliosis by putting patients in traction and wrapping them in casts.
It has been a privilege to work on the legacy of NYU Langone Orthopedics. The nearly 40 interviews that were conducted with specialists in the various subspecialties have created a rich tapestry of ideas and discussions of procedures in a wide range of areas of expertise. The film is both an oral history of the department and its hospitals and its institutional predecessors and a document that preserves the contributions of clinicians and scientists.