Mazzocca has spent his career working to improve patient outcomes in orthopedics
Dr. Augustus Mazzocca (Tina Encarnacion/UConn Health Photo) Copy Link
Dr. Augustus “Gus” Mazzocca has dedicated his career to studying and fixing tendon, bones, and muscles, whether in astronauts or in his patients at UConn Health in Farmington.
Now a professor of orthopedic surgery, Mazzocca’s interest in medicine started early; a family friend who worked as a urologic surgeon let him scrub up and go into the hospital with him.
“That, of course, was crazily exciting,” Mazzocca says. “The whole idea of the human body and how it reacted to different performance was always interesting to me.”