Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowship

Each of our four fellows will spend about 2 months on each of the four core rotations.

1. Matzkin

High volume knee, shoulder repair and reconstruction with additional focus on hip arthroscopy

• Elizabeth Matzkin, MD
• Scott Martin, MD
• Richard Wilk, MD

2. Shoulder

Arthroscopic and open complex shoulder, including arthroplasty, instability and muscle transfer

• JP Warner, MD
• Evan O'Donnell, MD

3. Sports

High volume knee, shoulder repair and reconstruction

• Eric Berkson, MD
• Christian Lattermann, MD

4. Nascimento

High volume knee, shoulder repair and reconstruction

• Robert Nascimento, MD
• Logan Huff, MD / Giovanna Medina, MD, PhD / Ian Hutchinson, MD

General Sports

• Simon Goertz, MD
• Ian Hutchinson, MD
• Morgan Jones, MD
• Elizabeth Matzkin, MD
• Robert Nascimento

Patellofemoral

• Eric Berkson, MD
• Miho Tanaka, MD
• Christian Lattermann, MD
• Nikolaos Paschos, MD, PhD

Pediatric Sports Medicine

• Giovanna Medina, MD, PhD
• Nikolaos Paschos, MD, PhD

Sports Elbow

• Neal Chen, MD
• Matt Leibman, MD
• Gus Mazzocca, MD

Sports Foot and Ankle

• Jeremy Smith, MD
• George Theodore, MD
• Greg Waryasz, MD

Complex Knee

• Eric Berkson, MD
• Simon Goertz, MD
• Ian Hutchinson, MD
• Christian Lattermann, MD
• Scott Martin, MD
• Elizabeth Maztkin, MD
• Robert Nascimento, MD
• Nikolaos Paschos, MD, PhD
• Lars Richardson, MD

Complex Shoulder

• Arnold Alqueza, MD
• Bassem Elhassan, MD
• Ryan Lohre, MD
• Robert Nascimento, MD
• Evan O’Donnell, MD
• Jon JP Warner, MD

Sports Hip

• Scott Martin, MD
• Nikolaos Paschos, MD, PhD
• Richard Wilk, MD

Shoulder Instability

• Logan Huff, MD
• Morgan Jones, MD
• Elizabeth Matzkin, MD
• Gus Mazzocca, MD
• Robert Nascimento, MD
• Evan O’Donnell, MD
• JP Warner, MD

Research

• Mark Cote, PT, DPT
• Cale Jacobs, PhD, ATC
• Morgan Jones, MD
• Miho Tanaka, MD, PhD
• Christian Latterman, MD, PhD

Women's Sports Medicine

• Elizabeth Matzkin, MD
• Miho Tanaka, MD, PhD
• Giovanna Medina, MD, PhD

Rehab/Performance/MRI

• Eric Berkson, MD
• Christian Lattermann, MD
• Joe Simeone, MD
• Kirstin Small, MD
• Bill Palmer, MD
• Scott Waugh, PT
• David Nolan, PT, DPT

• Foxborough Sports Medicine Center at Gillette Stadium
• Building for Transformative Medicine, BWH
• Mass General Brigham Sports Medicine at Boston Landing
• Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center Waltham + Outpatient Surgery Center
• Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care, MGH
• 175 Cambridge Street, MGH
• Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center Westood
• Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center Pembroke

Fellows can expect more that 500 operative cases during fellowship with a high case complexity, focusing on complex knee reconstruction, cartilage restoration, shoulder instability, shoulder arthroplasty, muscle transfers around the shoulder and more. Additional subspeciality sports medicine exposure is available through elective rotations.

Average cases per fellow in select anatomic areas:

• Shoulder arthroscopy: 152
• Knee arthroscopy: 111
• ACL: 73
• Shoulder arthroplasty: 44
• Shoulder Tendon Transfers: 20
• Complex shoulder instability (Latarjet, Allograft, etc): 18
• Cartilage Restoration: 12
• Hip Arthroscopy: 10
• Multiligamentous knee reconstruction: 18
• Meniscal transplant: 6
• Lower extremity Osteotomy: 8
• Sports Elbow: 6

Planned fellowship support:

• New England Shoulder and Elbow Society (Jay Peak, VT)
• International Sports Medicine Fellows Conference (Carlsbad, CA)
• AOSSM / AANA
• Arthrex, Smith & Nephew, Stryker Sports Medicine Courses
• NFL Combine
• Boston Red Sox Spring Training

The Mass General Brigham/Harvard Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowship sits within the larger framework of Mass General Brigham Orthopaedics and includes access to Mass General Brigham orthopaedic grand rounds, M&M and multidisciplinary educational conferences.

Sports Medicine Conference (weekly conference attended by fellows and attendings from orthopaedic sports medicine, orthopedic shoulder fellowship, primary care sports medicine, emergency sports medicine, physical therapy). We expect collaborative learning across disciplines within sports medicine and orthopaedic surgery.

• Weekly morning case discussions, sports-specific M&M
• Shoulder indications conference
• Research meetings

• ENABLE Bioskills Laboratory
  Located at the Charlestown Navy Yard, which is 4,000 square feet dedicated to Sports Medicine Research and General Orthopedics. This has a bioskills lab with six state-of-the-art arthroscopy towers that will allow further training on complex hip arthroscopy (c-arm and cadaver hips), elbow reconstruction, knee osteotomy and ligament reconstructions as well as all other procedures. A dedicated biomechanics lab with Instron machine, Vicon motion analysis cameras and a cadaver shoulder/knee simulator. It will also house a staffed cell biology lab investigating bone to tendon healing and biologic research.
• Lattermann/Charles PTOA Laboratory
• Scott Martin Hip Laboratory
• Center for Sport Performance and Research
  Offers a science-based approach to the training of sport and tactical athletes, conducting innovative research to enhance and sustain athletic performance and aid fast and effective athlete recovery.

• Matzkin Research Group
• Tanaka Research Group