Dr. Sotereanos came to AGH in 2003 from the University of Pittsburgh.  While at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Sotereanos was chief of the Hand and Upper Extremity Division.

He is currently a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Drexel University College of Medicine.  He is the Co-Director of the Hand Surgery Fellowship at AGH.  It is notable that he has helped to train a new generation of outstanding orthopaedic surgeons.  He is internationally renowned as an upper extremity surgeon and focuses on the hand, elbow and shoulder.  He has performed more than 8,000 surgeries of the upper extremity. 

Author of more than 200 scientific articles, reviews, papers, books and book chapters, Dr. Sotereanos is a frequent presenter at international and national scientific meetings and is involved in a variety of basic science and clinical research related to the treatment of hand, elbow, and shoulder problems as well as avascular necrosis of the hip.  He is a member of more than a dozen professional and scientific societies and has served on many of their national committees for educational and research activities.  Dr. Sotereanos' research interests include hip vascular necrosis, radio-ulnar synostoses, flexor tendon injuries, forearm compartment syndrome, and chronic compressive neuropathy.