G. Jacob Wolf, MD
G. Jacob Wolf, MD
Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine
Specialties
- Orthopaedic Surgery
Locations
- Chicago - Hyde Park
- Orland Park
- La Grange
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- About
- Specialties & Areas of Expertise
- Locations & Patient Information
- Education & Research
- Accepted Insurance
- External Professional Relationships
My name is Jacob Wolf. I'm an orthopedic hand surgeon here at University of Chicago. Although we call it hand surgery, it's really all upper extremity surgery. We really deal with shoulder to fingertip, primarily elbow to fingertip, but dealing with all tissues of the upper extremity, whether that be bone, joint, tendon nerve, blood vessel, deal with it all.
Several things kind of factored into going into medicine for me. A lot of it had to do with my background. I always enjoyed science growing up, but I got my undergraduate training in biomedical engineering. So through that, I got exposed to a lot of different aspects of the human physiology, anatomy, but also understanding the physics and mechanics behind the human body.
And that's what really pushed me towards orthopedic surgery, is a nice blend of obviously medicine but also the structural and mechanical aspects of the human body, whether it be joints, muscles, tendons. It all blended very well with my engineering background.
University of Chicago, I did my hand fellowship here, so I had an excellent year of training here where I got to get to know the city, get to know the faculty here, the great culture of investing in education while also being-- to steal the namefront-- at the forefront where you're doing the up and coming new technologies, the newest surgeries, you're kind of pushing the boundary on a lot of things.
But to me, the city, the patient population, the faculty, all that together was a great opportunity for me and something that I really wanted to stick around and keep working here for.
As a doctor, you have a lot of the answers in terms of you know what the literature says, you know what may be best for a given X-ray. But I think when it comes to philosophy of care, it's a patient-centered focus where you give the patients all the information and then let them decide, even though sometimes it may not necessarily be what you would have chosen if you were in their shoes, but sometimes folks have different situations, different priorities than what you have.
So you can always be there to steer them and try to point them in a certain direction, but helping folks come to that decision where they feel like they're in control of their own care.
Specialties
Areas of Expertise
- Osteoarthritis
Board Certifications
- Orthopaedic Surgery
Languages Spoken
- English
Medical Education
- Medical University of South Carolina
Residency
- Medical University of South Carolina
Fellowship
- University of Chicago
News & Research
Insurance
- Aetna Better Health *see insurance page
- Aetna HMO (specialists only)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO
- BCBS Blue Precision HMO (specialists only)
- BCBS HMO (HMOI) (specialists only)
- BCBS Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- BCBS PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna POS
- Cigna PPO
- CountyCare *see insurance page
- Humana Medicare Advantage Choice PPO
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Choice PFFS
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Plus HMO
- Medicare
- Multiplan PPO
- PHCS PPO
- United Choice Plus POS/PPO
- United Choice HMO (specialists only)
- United Options (PPO)
- United Select (HMO & EPO) (specialists only)
- United W500 Emergent Wrap
- University of Chicago Health Plan (UCHP)
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