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Reconstructive Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Founder and Director of North Jersey Reconstructive Foot and Ankle Fellowship Program
About Dr. Michael Subik, DPM
Dr. Michael Subik, DPM is a licensed reconstructive foot and ankle surgeon in NJ and NY with over 25 years of clinical experience. He is the Founder and Director of the North Jersey Reconstructive Foot and Ankle Fellowship Program and the Director of the Podiatric Medicine and Surgery Residency Program at St. Mary's General Hospital. Dr. Subik also provides Expert Testimony on medical-legal cases.
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Dr. Subik is extensively trained in lower limb salvage, primary and revision reconstruction, ankle and foot trauma, and total ankle joint replacement. He performed one of the first total ankle replacements in northern New Jersey in 2009, which was also the first total ankle replacement at Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center, and was a visiting proctor for the first total ankle replacement in New Hampshire. He has proctored and trained many podiatrists and orthopedists throughout the country on the Ilizarov External Ring Fixation Method and on ankle joint replacement over his 25 year career. He is a pioneer in diabetic limb salvage and regularly employs novel methods to save limbs including Transverse Bone Transport.
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Having been trained by some of the world leaders in foot and ankle reconstruction, Dr. Subik brings that knowledge and expertise to Bergen, Passaic, and Hudson counties. He has served as the Director of the Podiatric Medical and Surgical Residency at St. Mary’s General Hospital since 2015. Since that time, the program has doubled in size and gained much notoriety nationally under his direction. Dr. Subik also founded the first foot and ankle fellowship in the state of New Jersey in 2014 – the North Jersey Reconstructive Foot and Ankle Fellowship. Graduates of Dr. Subik’s programs, both residency and fellowship, have taken their experience and expertise with them and all are currently in practice across the nation coast-to-coast.
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Dr. Subik is also a consultant for some of the most advanced biologic and technology companies in the world. He is on numerous committees within these companies to assist with the development, design, implementation and training of the devices around the country. The information gleaned from his education and practice has provided his patients with world-class services and surgical care right in their backyards. Dr. Subik routinely performs complex limb salvage, limb reconstruction and trauma repair of the foot and ankle utilizing the most advanced tools in novel ways that have been peer reviewed and published in national journals. These techniques include use of the Ilizarov External Ring Fixator, numerous total ankle replacement systems, 3D printed bone models for implantation, and skin flaps/grafts.
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For his extensively respected work and contributions to the field of podiatry, Dr. Subik has been recognized and voted to NJ Monthly Top Docs by his peers consistently since 2015. The voting for this honor was performed by a third independent party polling more than 4000 doctors in New Jersey.
Read more about Dr. Subik’s Top Docs honors on the NJ Monthly website: https://njmonthly.com/doctors/michael-subik/
