Charles Melone- Class of 1960

Charles Melone graduated from BHS in 1960.  He was a member of the football, baseball and basketball teams.  He was Captain of the Football team and All County in Basketball.  He was also Class President for two year and Vice President of the Student Council.  He went to Georgetown University for both his undergraduate and medical degrees.  He established an endowment there in the name of his father, Dr. Charles P. Melone Sr., a prominent Bethpage physician.

Charlie has gained a reputation as one of the most knowledgeable hand surgeons in the United States.  Charles specializes in sports injuries to the hand and wrist, arthritis of the hand and wrist, wrist fractures, fracture-dislocations, scleroderma, microsurgery and carpal tunnel syndrome.  He has served as the hand surgeon to just about all the major professional sports teams in the New York metro area.

Charlie is Director of the Division of Hand Surgery at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center in New York and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Mount Sinai Ichan School of Medicine and Director Mount Sinai Hand Fellowship Program.

Charlie has participated in over 115 lectures and post-graduate courses on hand surgery across the country, has been an academic teacher of medical studies while having served as Chief of Orthopaedic Hand Surgery at New York University Medical Center and currently at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.  He has written over 50 articles on various topics in hand surgery.  His fracture classification called the Melone Classification of Distal Radius Fractures is based on various fracture patterns and is taught to aspiring orthopaedic/hand surgeons to enhance their diagnostic and management skills.

Charlie lives in New York City and has four children- Lauren, Christin, Courtney and Charles III.