Annual Meeting Faculty Details

Thomas M DeBerardino, MD

UT Health San Antonio, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
San Antonio, TX UNITED STATES

Thomas DeBerardino MD is an orthopaedic surgeon and retired US Army Veteran specializing in arthroscopic surgery of the knee, shoulder, and hip and reconstructive procedures of the knee and shoulder. Dr. DeBerardino graduated from the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY in 1985. He attended New York Medical College and then completed his internship and orthopaedic residency at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, HI. Dr. DeBerardino completed his training with the two-year John A. Feagin, Jr, Sports Medicine Fellowship at both Brooke Army Medical Center and the United States Military Academy’s Keller Army Hospital. He returned to Brooke Army Medical Center in 1997, where he became the Chief of the Sports Medicine Service before moving back to West Point in 2001. Dr. DeBerardino completed his 24-year Army career at the rank of Colonel. He served as Director of the West Point Sports Medicine Fellowship and Head Team Physician for Army Athletics before his retirement from the Army in 2009. Dr. DeBerardino comes back to San Antonio now after seven years from 2009-2016 as an Associate Professor, Assistant Sports Medicine Fellowship Director, and Orthopaedic Team Physician for the Orthopaedic Surgery Department at the University of Connecticut Medical Center and the UCONN Athletic Department. He has pioneered a number of open and arthroscopic knee and shoulder procedures and is a frequent speaker and teacher at national and international medical symposia on these procedures. He is board certified in orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. His research interests focus on clinical outcome studies mostly of the shoulder and knee. He has authored over 100 peer reviewed papers and many book chapters. Dr. DeBerardino moved back to San Antonio in 2016 and is currently Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at UT Health San Antonio, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. He is the Division Chief of Sports Medicine and the Head Orthopaedic Team Physician for UTSA.
https://lsom.uthscsa.edu/orthopaedics/team-member/thomas-m-deberardino-md/

7/10/2024
09:40 - 09:46
High Lonesome Barn Session VI: Cartilage - Osteochondral Allograft
Case Presentations
Fresh Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation Combined with Opening Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy and Revision Multi-ligamentous Knee Reconstruction- Do Expectations for Return to Sport Match Reality?
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