The physicians of Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic are dedicated to serving their patients and community with high standards of excellence in orthopaedic care.

Phillip K. Kwong, M.D.

Specializing in treating foot and ankle pain.

Medical School

  • University of Southern California; Los Angeles, California

Internship

  • Internship Surgery and Anesthesia, University of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois

Residency

  • Residency Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois

Fellowship

  • Fellowship in Foot, Rancho Los Amigos Hospital; Downey, California
  • Fellowship in Foot, University of Southern California; Los Angeles, California

Faculty Appointments

  • Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Southern California School of Medicine; Los Angeles, California

Professional Organizations

  • American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
  • American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
  • American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Foot and Ankle Society
  • California Orthopaedic Association

Board Certification

  • National Board Medical Examiner
  • American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery

Research Activities

  • "Effects of Extrinsic Muscles of the Leg on the Foot" Orthopaedic Research Society, AAOS Annual Meeting 1979; San Francisco, California
  • "Hindfoot Valgus and Pes Planus", Summer 1983, Institute of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons; Boston, Massachusetts
  • "Adult and Pediatric Pes Planus" University of South Florida, Tampa Annual Meeting of Orthopaedic Update, 1985; Tampa, Florida
  • "Relief of Second Metatarsalgia by First Metatarsal Cuneiform Fusion", The American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Annual Meeting, 1987; San Francisco, California
  • "Plantar Fasciitis and Flexible Adult and Pediatric Pes Planus", Loma Linda University, 1987; Loma Linda, California

Lecturer

  • "Use of Doppler Ultrasound to determine healing potentials and amputatio levels in the dysvascular lower extremity", American Orthopaedic Association, 1980; Hawaii
  • "Use of Doppler Ultrasound in Diabetic Foot", American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Meeting, 1980
  • Orthopaedic Care of the Foot and Ankle, Child and Adult; San Diego, California
  • "Gait Analysis and Function", Prosthetic and Orthotic Training Course for Physicians; UCLA and Veterans Hospital, 1978-1983
  • "Review of Orthopaedic Foot Disorders" J. Vernon Luck Research Society, Intensive Review of Orthopaedic Surgery, 1984

Publications

  • Kwong, P.K., Application of Doppler Ultrasound to Foot and Ankle Care, Foot and Ankle Journal, 1982 Jan.; 2 (4): 220-223
  • Yamanaka, M. and Kwong, P.K., The Side to Side Flap Technique in Below-the-Knee Amputation with the Long Stump, Clinical Orthopaedics, 1985 Dec. (201): 75-9
  • Siegel; Stewart; Kwong; Sakimura, 201 T Perfusion Study of Ischemic Ulcers of the Leg-Prognostic Ability Compare with Doppler Ultrasound, Radiology 1982 Apr; 143 (1): 233-5
  • Spiegel, Ginsberg, Skosey, Kwong, Chondrocalcinosis - A Case Report, Clinical Orthopaedics 1976; 00 (120): 185-7
  • Kwong, Kay, Voner, White, Plantar Fasciitis, Clinics in Sports Medicine, Vol. 7, No. 1, Jan. 1988
  • Kwong, Statistical Survey of Foot Deformities in Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, Submitted to Rheumatology
  • Brodsky, Wagner, Kwong, Chambers, Patterns of Breakdown in the Charcot Tarsus of Diabetes and Relation to Treatment, submitted to J.B.J.S. and also presented at the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1987