Dr. Stéphanie Hinse
Specialty: International subspecialty in upper limb surgery.
Dr. Stéphanie Hinse is a Canadian orthopaedic surgeon with international expertise and subspecialty in upper limb surgery. She specializes in arthroscopic (camera) and arthroplasty (prosthesis) surgery of the shoulder and elbow. She is co-founder of Groupe Orthopédie Montréal, a private surgical practice since 2023.
Dr. Hinse obtained her MD from Université de Montréal in 2010. She went on to specialize in orthopaedic surgery at the Université de Montréal and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2015 (FRCSC).
Dr. Stéphanie Hinse began her international subspecialty with 2 consecutive fellowships in upper limb surgery in Melbourne, Australia in 2015-2016. The first fellowship was with the Melbourne Shoulder and Elbow Institute team for 6 months and the second fellowship with the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group (MOG) also for 6 months. As part of his upper limb subspecialty year, Dr. Hinse was an integral part of the surgical team in Melbourne, helping to treat several AFL (Australian Football League) professional athletes who required shoulder and elbow surgery.
Dr. Hinse has developed a keen interest in the complex surgery of tendon transfers in the shoulder. Dr Hinse has completed a 3rd 6-month fellowship with Prof. Christian Gerber in Zürich (Switzerland) in 2019, in particular to deepen her knowledge of tendon transfers and shoulder prostheses.
Prof. Gerber is a pioneer in shoulder surgery, and training with him on fellowship is highly prestigious. In particular, Prof. Gerber was the first to describe and publish the surgical technique and results of tendon transfers from the latissimus dorsi to the shoulder for irreparable rotator cuff tears. Prof. Gerber has published >450 scientific articles and has been cited >26,000 times in the literature.
Dr. Hinse is a Canadian expert on complex massive cuff tear pathologies and regularly performs tendon transfers to the shoulder when required. She is a frequent guest expert and presenter at local and national conferences. Dr. Hinse is active in research and has also published several scientific articles, notably on cuff pathologies, shoulder prostheses and shoulder instabilities.
Dr. Hinse believes in the importance of a personalized, human approach to each and every one of her patients, in order to offer high-quality care based on respect and trust. Patients appreciate her for her dedication, patience and availability to patients.
