Fellowship is an additional year of training for those interested in becoming experts in a particular area of orthopaedic surgery.
Dr Christoforetti's Fellowship Experience:
- Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery ('06-'07)
- Arthroscopic Hip Surgery ('07)
Location:
- Steadman-Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas, Spartanburg, South Carolina
- Steadman-Hawkins Clinic, Vail, Colorado
- Colorado Rockies' Spring Training, Tucson, Arizona
Full Story:
Upon completion of residency and passing his Orthopaedic Specialty Boards, Dr John Christoforetti traveled to Spartanburg, South Carolina for a one year fellowship in Sports Medicine with Dr Richard Hawkins and other faculty at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas.
The additional year of sports medicine training produced many opportunities to learn and research original ideas. As a fellow he was head team physician for Carolina High School and assistant team physician for the USC-Upstate athletic program, the Greenville Drive Class-A Baseball team and the Colorado Rockies during Spring Training in Tucson, Arizona.
His research included pioneering the use of laser doppler technology to describe effects of arthroscopic surgery on rotator cuff blood supply. He also designed the first x-ray and clinical study of the hip in professional baseball pitchers. He completed his year by spending 1 month at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic in Vail, Colorado where he worked with Dr Marc Philippon, one of the world's preeminent hip arthroscopists.