Gregory Montalbano, MD, graduated from Albany Medical College and was awarded membership in the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society. This honor was awarded to the top 5 students in a class of 128. Dr. Montalbano also achieved academic recognition, being awarded the Trustees Prize for outstanding academic achievement, the Sandoz Award for outstanding contribution to healthcare, and letters each year from the Dean of the College for outstanding academic performance.

Dr. Montalbano’s academic superiority was not only evident at the local level of his medical school; he also achieved distinction at a national level, scoring in the top 1% nationally on his national board examinations (a mandatory series of standardized examinations administered nationally that are required for medical licensing). With an outstanding academic performance through medical school and a top 1% national ranking on his board examinations, Dr. Montalbano was able to select his residency training program from the best in the nation. He selected and went on to complete a one-year general surgery internship at NYU, followed by a four-year residency in orthopedic surgery at the prestigious and nationally recognized NYU Langone in NYC. NYU Langone was at that time and remains a top-ranked residency program that selected only 6 residents from an applicant pool of hundreds.

During his training at NYU Langone, Dr. Montalbano received didactic and hands-on training with nationally and internationally recognized senior orthopedic surgeons considered the ‘best in their field’. Dr. Montalbano also elected to travel to the University of Washington Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, WA for specialized training in the surgical treatment of traumatic fractures and musculoskeletal trauma. This Level 1 trauma facility is rated as one of the busiest in the nation, receiving cases routinely by air transport from Washington, Montana, Idaho, and Alaska. Routine traumatic injuries at this facility included high-speed motorcycle and motor vehicle accidents, airplane accidents, industrial fishing, logging and farming accidents, and snowmobile, ski, and mountain climbing accidents. During his training at this facility, he worked directly with one of the foremost authorities in orthopedic trauma care, the chief editor and a contributing author to the definitive textbook on this subject. Dr. Gregory Montalbano also worked with the Harkness Dance Center during his residency training, providing care to injured New York City dancers, including professional dancers for Alvin Ailey Dance Company and the American Ballet Theatre, among others. As a result of Dr. Montalbano’s work with the dance center, he completed a research paper that was awarded the NYU Langone Senior Resident Research Award for excellence in clinical research.

Following graduation from NYU Langone, Dr. Gregory Montalbano went on to additional training at Georgetown University/Arlington Hospital in arthroscopic surgery and joint reconstruction. During that time, he was a team physician for George Mason University and provided field coverage for various NCAA Division 1 athletic events, including the 1998 NCAA Division 1 Basketball Playoffs in Washington DC.

Dr. Montalbano is currently a clinical assistant professor at New York University School of Medicine and is a faculty member of NYU. Dr. Montalbano maintains a busy clinical schedule at his private offices and in addition maintains an academic schedule as a faculty member of NYU School of Medicine, attending national conferences regularly and providing surgical training to the residents at NYU Langone.