Dr. Vivina M. Serra Lopez, MD, MS

Dr. Viviana Serra López is an Orthopaedic Surgeon who completed subspecialty training in Hand & Upper Extremity Surgery. She was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After working in medical manufacturing, Dr. Serra earned her medical degree from the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus and completed residency training at the University of Pennsylvania. During her training, she served as a resident lead for the local community Orthopaedic Surgery Clinic as part of the Penn Center for Surgical Health. She also completed a fellowship in Hand & Upper Extremity Surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery.

Specialties

Orthopaedics
Orthopaedic Surgery

Affiliations

Emory

Education & Training

Medical School: University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine

Publications

Serra Lopez VM, Wolfe S. Non-vascularized bone grafting for scaphoid nonunions. (2024). Journal of Wrist Surgery, available online March 21, 2024. https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-0044-1782230

Serra Lopez VM, Cheema AN, Blumenthal S, Horneff JG, Huffman, GR. (2023). Glenohumeral joint auto-fusion in a morbidly obese patient intubated for severe COVID-19 infection. JSES Reviews, Reports & Techniques, 4(1), 86-90.

Serra Lopez VM, Wu C, Bozentka D. (2023). Complications and revision surgery of forearm fractures. Hand Clinics, 39(3), 296-306.

Blumenthal SR, Fryhofer GW, Serra Lopez VM, Pierrie SN, Mehta S. (2023). Bias in care: impact of ethnicity on time to emergent surgery varies between subspecialties. Journal of the AAOS Global Research & Reviews, 7(6), e23.00060.

Dardas AZ, Serra Lopez VM, Boden L, Gittings DJ, Heym K, Koerber E, Grosh T, Ahn J. (2022). A simple surgical mask modification to pass N95 respirator-equivalent fit testing standards during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLOS One, 17(8), e0272834.

Horneff JG, Serra Lopez VM. (2022). Preoperative planning for anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty. Journal of the AAOS, 30(19), e1207-e1216.

Serra Lopez VM, Koressel JE, Liu SY, Steinberg D. (2022). Atraumatic index finger flexor tendon rupture as a presenting sign of capitate osteonecrosis: A report of two cases. JBJS Case Connector, 12(1).

Serra Lopez VM, Perez BA, Dardas AZ, Levin LS. (2021). The use of a free vascularized osteocutaneous flap from the medial femoral condyle for two separate cases of ulnar shaft nonunions in a single patient. Orthoplastic Surgery, 6, 1-6.

Serra Lopez VM, Gandhi R, Falk DP, Baxter J, Lien JR, Gray BL. (2021). Dynamic thumb circumduction measured with a wearable motion sensor: a prospective comparison of patients with basal joint arthritis to controls. Journal of Hand Surgery Global Online, 3(4), 190-194.

Serra Lopez VM, Cheema AN, Gray BL, Pirruccio K, Kazmers NH. (2020). Epidemiology of fireworks-related injuries to the upper extremity in the United States from 2011 to 2017. Journal of Hand Surgery Global Online, 2(3), 117-120.