Charles Day System Director of Value Specialty Care, Orthopaedics, Henry Ford Health

Charles S. Day, MD, MBA, has recently been appointed to be the System Director of Value Specialty Care at Henry Ford Health System. He is also the Executive Vice Chair and Chief of Hand Surgery in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Service Line. He holds dual academic appointments as a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at both Wayne State University School of Medicine as well as Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He is a nationally renowned expert in hand, and wrist surgery with over 20 years of clinical experience. Dr. Day moved to Michigan in 2019, and previously served as the Chief of Orthopedic Hand & Upper Extremity Surgery at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston from 2016 to 2019 and 2005 to 2015, respectively. He was also an Associate Professor in Orthopedic Surgery and the Director of the Orthopaedic Curriculum at Harvard Medical School from 2009 – 2016. He has published over 95 peer reviewed papers and 40 chapters/ books. He has won numerous awards throughout his career, including 2022 Diversity Award at the American Association for Hand Surgery, 2011 American Orthopaedic Association – American, British, Canadian Fellowship Award, 2011 Sterling Bunnell Fellowship Award of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, and the 2010 Excellence in Mentoring Award from Harvard Medical School. He was born in Taipei, Taiwan near “Dong Men” Market and walking distance from the original Din Tai Fung restaurant. He immigrated to the United States when he was 9 years old, and attended Stanford University and University of California, San Francisco Medical School. He completed his Orthopaedic residency at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and his hand surgery fellowship at Washington University, St. Louis.