Curriculm Vitae

Team Physician

With my interest in the injured athlete, I took care of several high school teams in Bakersfield.  

From 1986 to 1994, I was the team physician for the Bakersfield Dodgers, and single-A minor league team in the Los Angeles Dodger organization.  I was the team physician for a Denver high school from 1994 until 2000.  In 1995 and 1996, I was an attending physician at the Colorado State Wrestling Tournament and the Colorado State Girl’s Basketball Tournament.  I have been a volunteer physician at the People’s Clinic in Boulder.

Arthroscopy

During the last several years of my residency, I developed an interest in arthroscopy, and, in the early 1980’s, I spent a good deal of time working with Dr. James Andrews, then with the Hughston Clinic in Columbus, Georgia.  In 1983, I began performing anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions arthroscopically, but was  not happy with the knee braces available at that time.  Mr. Jeff Townsend and I began the development of a new brace design. Working with patients, and a Los Angeles Laker basketball player, we finalized a new hinge system, based on unpublished biomechanical studies in instant centers of knee rotation.  The Townsend Brace is currently widely used in the United States, by both amateur and professional athletes, including John Elway.

Private Practice
In July 1994, my family and I moved to Boulder, Colorado, and I began a solo private practice as of  September 1994.  Since then, I have given numerous talks and seminars to nurse, physical therapy and  physician groups on shoulder arthroscopy and the use of allograft in cruciate reconstructions.  I acted as the physician advisor and instructor at  a two-day cadaver shoulder arthroscopy course, sponsored by Arthrex at the Longmont Surgical Center in 2005. I was invited by Dr. James Glick to spend time in San Francisco in 1996, learning how to perform hip arthroscopy. I have completed two Masters Courses for Hip Arthroscopy and  I now routinely
perform this procedure.

I was a member of the Steering Committee for the Health ONE Sports Medicine Program, and I was one of approximately thirty orthopaedic surgeons involved in that program.  I also served on the editorial board of the Health ONE sports medicine publication, Time Out.

In 2013, I was selected as one of four Denver Top Doctors in orthopaedic surgery in 5280 Magazine.  My orthopaedic colleagues bestowed this honor.

Early in 2014, I was appointed to a Task Force for the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers’ Compensation.  We are revising the Colorado Medical Treatment Guidelines for sections on the shoulder and thoracic outlet syndrome.