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Dr. Diao is a board-certified Orthopaedic Surgeon with a Certificate of Added Qualification in Hand Surgery (CAQHS). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) and the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH). He has served on the AAOS Research Development Committee, has Chaired the Clinician Scientist Development Program, and the Japanese Travelling Fellowship Committee. For the ORS he has been a moderator, topic chair and invited Workshop Lecturer. Dr. Diao has served on over a dozen committees for the ASSH and was recently recognized as a leader in Hand Surgery by being chosen to serve on the Board of the ASSH as Council Member –at-Large.

Dr. Diao has clinical and surgical expertise in the management of musculoskeletal and neurovascular conditions of the elbow, wrist and hand in children and adults. He commonly performs procedures to correct complications due to previous surgeries.

Dr. Diao is a Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine where he was Chief of the Division of Hand, Upper Extremity and Microvascular Surgery for 13 years, teaching residents and fellows anatomy and state-of-the-art surgical techniques.