@5liberty ... Oh my so many excellent hip surgeons at HSS.
David Mayman was my top choice before I ultimately decided to stay local after finding someone who impressed me almost as much as Mayman did. Mayman uses a robotic assisted arm ... and is nationally known leader in computer and robot-assisted surgery ... he's also a really warm guy ... He draws a lot of really active people, and that was his attraction to me. He's fine with patients running, for example, after hip replacement. But the operation is pretty much the same for people of varying activity levels.
There's a young guy, more of a generalist, who ordinarily I wouldn't recommend except that I noticed that a lot of PTs and HSS doctors were recommending patients to him ... his name is Danyal Nawabi. He does more than hips and knees, but apparently is outstanding at hips. If you read any of his reviews, you'll want to meet with him tomorrow ... he calls patients, checks on them afterwards ... answers questions himself often by phone call, not just email and is apparently just a brilliant and precise surgeon.
Other top hip surgeons there: Edwin Su is famous as a hip resurfacing (but doesn't really take insurance, so is extremely expensive and takes like 6 months to get an appointment) ... Friedrich Boettner, Michael Cross, Seth Jerabek are other names that caught my attention... and these are mainly the ones I read about ... others I'm sure are excellent.
At the very top I think is Paul Pellicci ... but I think he's retiring and he doesn't take much insurance. He is responsible for some serious advances in posterior approach surgeries ... His patients rave ... and they apparently have big wallets ... If I had some wealth, I would have scheduled a surgery with Pellicci--wouldn't have needed to meet with him beforehand. Only partly kidding. Michael Alexiades is another top surgeon and a leader there in anterior surgery ... (again, he was outside my insurance network). Nawabi also does anterior and robotic assisted surgery. Boettner also does anterior if that is an interest of yours.
I picked these limited names, but you could probably throw darts at the HSS hip doctors chart and land with someone really good. Oh, a recent guy on the board ....prairienut used a young guy, Dr. Brad Waddell and seemed happy with the results.
So that's a lot of info.
So let me be try to be helpful. If I were telling a friend what to do, I'd say schedule a visit with David Mayman and another visit to Danyal Nawabi ... It's fine to meet multiple surgeons at HSS ... and it's doubly fine since Mayman does mini-posterior approach and Nawabi does the anterior ... You don't have to keep secret that you're meeting with multiple doctors there. Each surgeon has his own office and office managers and schedulers. See if either of those guys impresses you ... if not, keep going.
If you've got the
do-re-mi, start with Paul Pellicci, though he may have retired. Unfortunately Inglis was not someone I read up on ... good or bad or neutral.