Dr. Leigh Hopkins Joins St. Luke’s Orthopaedic Specialists

East Stroudsburg, PA (10/7/2016) – Leigh Hopkins, MD, has joined St. Luke's Orthopaedic Specialists located in the St. Luke’s East Stroudsburg Health Center, 3 Parkinsons Road in East Stroudsburg.

Dr. Hopkins is an experienced general orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in joint replacement, sports medicine, and spine issues.

Most recently, Dr. Hopkins served as Chief of Orthopaedics at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, NJ, and practiced there as well as at Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County, Centennial Surgery Center in Voorhees, NJ, and consulted at Memorial Hospital of Salem County in Salem, NJ.

A resident of Bryn Mawr, Delaware County, he earned his bachelor’s and juris doctor degrees from Duke University in 1978 and 1981, respectively, and graduated from Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1989.

His educational background also includes earning a Physician Leadership Program Certificate from the Wharton School in 1998.

He is fellowship-trained, having completed a spine surgery fellowship at New England Baptist/The Deaconess Hospital which is affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine and Harvard University Medical School in 1995.

New patients are welcome to call 570-645-1835 for more information or an appointment.

About St. Luke’s

Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a non-profit, regional, fully integrated and nationally recognized network providing services at seven hospitals and more than 270 outpatient sites. The network’s service area includes Lehigh, Northampton, Carbon, and Schuylkill, Bucks, Montgomery, Berks and Monroe counties in Pennsylvania and in Warren County in New Jersey. Dedicated to advancing health education, St. Luke’s operates the nation’s oldest School of Nursing and 22 graduate medical educational programs and is considered a major teaching hospital, the only one in the region. In partnership with Temple University, St. Luke’s created the region’s first Medical School. Repeatedly, including 2016, St. Luke’s has earned Truven’s Top 100 Major Teaching Hospital designation as well as Top 50 Cardiovascular program in addition to other honors for clinical excellence. St. Luke’s is a multi-year recipient of the Most Wired award recognizing the breadth of St. Luke’s information technology applications such as electronic medical records, telehealth, online scheduling and pricing information. St. Luke’s is also recognized as one of the state’s lowest cost providers in comparison to major teaching hospitals and other health systems.

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