Bio
Rob Gray, MD, FAAOS is a board-certified Orthopaedic Hand Surgeon in Chicagoland's North Shore. He specializes in broken wrists, carpal tunnel syndrome, hand fractures, endoscopic cubital tunnel release, elbow fractures, tendonopathies, trigger finger and Dequervain's tenosynovitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, hand arthritis, scaphoid nonunions, vascularized bone grafting, and peripheral nerve surgery.
He trained at Mayo Clinic, Rush University Medical Center, and Brown University. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and member of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, American Association for Hand Surgery, J Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society, and the Society of Royce Fellows.
I Treat it Like It's my Own Hand
Dr. Gray completed his undergraduate and medical degrees at Brown University in Providence, RI as part of their combined Program in Liberal Medical Education. He then matched into the combined Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program at RUSH University Medical Center in Chicago, IL--a program consistently ranked in the top 10 nationwide. At RUSH, he completed trauma surgery training at Stroger Hospital of Cook County and Rockford Orthopaedic Associates (now OrthoIllinois) in Rockford, IL. Upon graduation, he was awarded the Gunnar Andersson, MD, PhD Award for best Chief Resident by his co-residents.
He spent a year in Rochester, MN at Mayo Clinic completing a Fellowship in Hand and Microvascular Surgery. There, he was trained in all aspects of general hand surgery, peripheral nerve surgery including brachial plexus reconstruction, and microsurgery including vascularized bone grafting.
After completing training, he practiced and taught hand surgery at University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine in Miami, FL. There, he focused primarily on complex trauma, reconstruction, and limb salvage and operated at Bascom Palmer hospital as well as Jackson Memorial Hospital. He was also selected as best Attending Surgeon Teacher by the Orthopaedic Residents.
He has now returned to Chicago's North Shore to bring the highest level of orthopaedic hand and microvascular surgical care to his patients here. Practicing at NorthShore University HealthSystem, he operates in Evanston, Skokie, Glenview, and Highland Park and sees patients in Skokie, Glenview and Lincolnshire. He is a nationally and internationally sought-after lecturer and teaches Hand Surgery Fellows from the University of Chicago, and Orthopaedic Surgery Residents from the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois—Chicago (UIC).
Dr. Gray is a board certified Orthopaedic Surgeon, a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and a member of the American Association for Hand Surgery and the American Society of Surgery of the Hand, having attained the Subspecialty Certificate of Surgery of the Hand (formerly the CAQ)
