Annual Meeting Faculty Details

Eric C McCarty, MD

University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado UNITED STATES

Dr. Eric McCarty is a sports medicine trained orthopedic surgeon and shoulder specialist. He serves as the Chief of Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery and is a Professor in the Department of Orthopedics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He also is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. McCarty grew up in Boulder, Colorado within a stone’s throw of the University of Colorado. His upbringing was centered on athletics and mountain activities as his father was a prominent dentist and well-regarded mountaineer who co-authored the first rock climbing guidebook in Boulder and his mother was an avid fitness instructor. Early on he became interested in sports medicine and knew the path he was meant to follow. His passion for treating the active individual stems from his experience at the University of Colorado where he excelled and received numerous honors for his exploits in the classroom as well as on the football field where he was a first-team all-conference linebacker in the prominent Big-Eight Conference and he was also an Academic All-American. He subsequently signed with the Houston Oilers and after being released he played football for the Bergamo Lions in the Italian Football League. Dr. McCarty attended medical school at the University of Colorado. After graduation he completed his training in orthopaedic surgery at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. From there he completed an intensive year of fellowship training in sports medicine and shoulder surgery at the internationally renowned Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. He subsequently returned to Vanderbilt as a faculty member in the department of orthopedics. In 2003, Dr. McCarty was recruited back to Colorado from Vanderbilt University to take over the sports medicine and shoulder program in the department of orthopedics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and to serve as the head team physician for the University of Colorado and University of Denver athletic programs. In recent years he has also been the medical director and head team physician for the Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club. His specialized practice involves the care of these collegiate and professional athletes as well as recreational and highly competitive athletes from the community and the rocky mountain area. In addition to his busy clinical practice, Dr. McCarty is very active in research, teaching, and writing in the field of sports medicine and knee and shoulder surgery. He has over 200 publications in the field of Sports Medicine. He has received competitive grants for his research and frequently gives talks at both the national and international level. He has been the recipient of numerous national research awards including the AOSSM Cabaud Award, AOSSM Herodicus Award, AOSSM O’Donoghue Sports Injury Research Award, AOSSM Douglas Brown Award and AOSSM Aircast Award as well as the ASES Neer Award on two occasions. Additionally, he received the prestigious Kappa Delta Award from the AAOS in 2012 and 2019. He is also annually recognized and voted by physicians in the Denver and Boulder area as one of 5280 Magazine’s “Top Docs” for his expertise in the specialty of sports medicine. He is also very active in national and international sports medicine and arthroscopic societies including AOSSM, ISAKOS, AANA and ASES with various positions of leadership in those societies. In 2004, he was selected as a traveling fellow for the AOSSM/ESSKA traveling fellowship to Europe. He is a proponent of international sports medicine collaboration and has been the chair of the Traveling Fellowship committee for AOSSM. Dr. McCarty is extremely dedicated to his faith and every year organizes a well-attended prayer breakfast during the annual AOSSM meeting. Since his playing days, Dr. McCarty continues to maintain a very active lifestyle with his family. He lives in Boulder with his wife Miriam and has four children Madeleine, Cleveland, Shannon, and Torrance. He enjoys the activities he grew up with in Colorado including hiking, cycling, climbing and skiing. This carries over into his unbridled dedication of returning his patients to their desired activity/sport. His passion for his work as a team physician, surgeon, educator and researcher is quite evident in his enthusiasm for what he does. He feels very fortunate and blessed to be in such a wonderful profession.
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7/7/2024 16:00 - 15:30	High Lonesome Barn	Executive Committee Meeting
7/8/2024 07:00 - 07:10	High Lonesome Barn	Welcome Introduction Welcome and Introductions Chair
7/8/2024 11:10 - 11:20	High Lonesome Barn	Session IX: Traveling Fellowship Presentations Moderator
7/8/2024 18:45 - 19:00	Axel's Pavilion	50th Meeting Celebration & Dinner Special Presentation 50 Years of the Herodicus Society Chair
7/9/2024 06:50 - 06:55	High Lonesome Barn	Welcome and Announcements Chair
7/9/2024 20:22 - 20:24	High Lonesome Barn	Annual Meeting Banquet Program Introduction Thank you to Chuck Bush-Joseph, MD, President Chair
7/9/2024 20:25 - 20:30	High Lonesome Barn	Annual Meeting Banquet Program Presentation Announce 2025 Annual Meeting Location Chair