Dr. Bleck served as chief of the orthopedics division at Stanford Hospital, now Stanford Health Care, from 1982 to 1988. He was a founding member of a pediatric orthopedics study group, which became the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, and served as president of POSNA as well as of the American Orthopaedic Association.
Dr. Bleck was at the forefront of a number of ‘firsts’ at Stanford, including bringing arthroscopy to Stanford and performing Stanford’s first anterior surgery for scoliosis. He has a special interest in cerebral palsy and has written five books on the subject, as well as 85 publications in professional journals.
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