Steven C Haase

Steven Haase
Clinical Professor of Surgery
Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Program Director, Plastic Surgery
Medical Director, Medical School
Available to mentor
Steven C Haase
Steven Haase
Clinical Professor
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    Steven C. Haase, M.D. serves as Chief of the Hand Surgery Division in the Section of Plastic Surgery at University of Michigan Health. He is a Clinical Professor of Surgery and Orthopedic Surgery and serves as Program Director for the Hand Surgery Fellowship. He is Medical Director of both the Adult Plastic Surgery Clinic as well as the Comprehensive Wound Care Clinic, and he chairs the Plastic Surgery Peer Review Committee.
    Dr. Haase attended college at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry/Pre-Medicine. He then received his M.D. degree from the University of Illinois before moving to Ann Arbor to begin General Surgery Residency training at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. Following this, he finished Plastic Surgery Fellowship training at the University of Michigan. To expand on his interest in hand surgery, he then traveled to Rochester, Minnesota, to complete a Hand Surgery Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic.
    Dr. Haase is board-certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, Inc, with additional certification in the subspecialty of Hand Surgery. He is an active member of several surgical societies, including to the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, the American Association for Hand Surgery, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, and the American College of Surgeons.
    Clinical Specialization:
    Dr. Haase specializes in hand and wrist surgery. He cares for a wide variety of clinical problems, including trauma (fractures, tendon lacerations, nerve injury), nerve compression (carpal tunnel and others), wrist injuries and fractures, job-related injuries or disorders, Dupuytren disease, and arthritis. He has a special interest in skin cancers of the hand, as well as other hand tumors and growths.

    Qualifications

    • MD
      University of Illinois College of Medicine, Urbana, IL, United States
      1992 - 1996

    Recent Publications

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    • Journal Article
      Predictors of Disease Severity for Ulnar Neuropathy at the Elbow: Analysis from a Randomized Clinical Trial
      Chung KC, Malay S, Burns PB, Kim HM, Ki J, Kim HM, Haase SC, Waljee JF, Burns P, Malay S, Giladi AM, Means KR, Fleming IC, Wagner ER, Gottschalk MB, Ghareeb PA, Cooke HL, LaPorte D, Blackburn EW, Fehrenbacher VL, Robinson LP, Godwin D, Heppner TS, Jain SA, Colvell K, Lehman TP, Chenoweth B, Lansinger Y, Edge KD, Nguyen LJ, Gaston G, Ready AN, Fowler J, Ramraj R, Li Z, Graves B, Butler K, Brotherton A, Goodman JB. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2026 May 1; 157 (5): 742 - 750. DOI:10.1097/PRS.0000000000012472
      PMID: 40991254
    • Journal Article
      Clinical Features of Conduction Block in Ulnar Neuropathy at the Elbow: Surgery of the Ulnar Nerve Multicenter Clinical Trial: Correction
      Chung KC, Florczynski MM, Hearn SL, Kim HM, Burns PB, Malay S, Chung KC, Kim HM, Haase SC, Waljee JF, Malay S, Burns P, Giladi AM, Fleming IC, Wagner ER, Gottschalk MB, Ghareeb PA, Cooke HL, LaPorte D, Laljani V, Blackburn EW, Fehrenbacher VL, Robinson LP, Godwin D, Heppner TS, Jain SA, Colvell K, Lehman TP, Chenoweth B, Lansinger Y, Edge KD, Nguyen LJ, Gaston G, Ready AN, Fowler J, Ramraj R, Li Z, Graves B, Butler K, Brotherton A, Goodman JB. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2026 Feb 1; 157 (2): 408 - 408. DOI:10.1097/PRS.0000000000012766
      PMID: 41563429
    • Journal Article
      Contemporary Management of Distal Radius Fractures: What All Plastic Surgeons Should Know
      Hooper RC, Haase SC, Mithani SK, Palazzo M, Chung KC. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2025 Aug 1; 156 (2): 233 - 245. DOI:10.1097/PRS.0000000000011715
      PMID: 39236258
    • Presentation
      Department of Surgery/Plastic Section’s Peer Review Program
      Haase S, Cederna P, Myers P. 2024 Mar 15;
    • Journal Article
      Task-Specific Patient Preferences for Shared Decision-Making in Hand Surgery
      Cho HE, Baxter NB, Billig JI, Kotsis SV, Haase SC, Chung KC. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2022 Feb 1; 149 (2): 229 - 239. DOI:10.1097/PRS.0000000000008724
      PMID: 35077417
    • Journal Article
      Trust and Distrust in Opioid Decision-Making: A Qualitative Assessment of Patient-Doctor Relationship
      Cho HE, Billig JI, Byrnes ME, Haase SC, Waljee JF, Chung KC. Journal of Hand Surgery, 2022 Feb 1; 47 (2): 151 - 159.e1. DOI:10.1016/j.jhsa.2021.10.013
      PMID: 34916114
    • Journal Article
      The Current State of Fat Grafting in the Hand: A Systematic Review for Hand Diseases.
      Khouri AN, Adidharma W, MacEachern M, Haase SC, Waljee JF, Cederna PS, Strong AL. Hand (New York, N.Y.), 2022 Aug 6;
    • Journal Article
      Evaluation of Factors Relevant to Pain Control among Patients after Surgical Treatment
      Baxter NB, Cho HE, Billig JI, Kotsis SV, Haase SC, Chung KC. JAMA Network Open, 2021 Dec 28; 4 (12): DOI:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.40869
      PMID: 34962558