Annual Meeting Faculty Details

Robert H Brophy, MD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine
Chesterfield, MO UNITED STATES

Dr. Brophy is the Jerome J. Gilden, MD Endowed Distinguished Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Chief of the Sports Medicine Service, and Director of the Orthopaedic Clinical Research Center at the Washington University School of Medicine and Chief Medical Officer and orthopedic surgeon for St. Louis City SC (Major League Soccer). As a board certified orthopaedic surgeon with subspecialty certification in sports medicine, his clinical practice focuses on the treatment of shoulder and knee injuries in patients from all sports and walks of life. Dr. Brophy has been named to the St. Louis Best Doctors since 2009 and a Castle Connolly Top Doctor since 2019. He serves as a team physician for the St. Louis Blues, was a team physician for the St. Louis Rams (NFL), and is Chair of the Musculoskeletal Research Committee of the National Football League (NFL). He pursues research as a means of improving patient care and outcomes, having authored or co-authored over 380 peer reviewed articles to date with an H-index of 74. He has received a number of research related distinctions, including the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Cabaud Award (twice) and NCAA Award, The American Journal of Sports Medicine Systematic Review Award and Podcast Award, the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation’s Career Development Award for his research related to ACL tears, the NFL Physicians Society Arthur C. Rettig Award, and the Washington University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Lee T. Ford Award. He served as Deputy Editor of Sports Medicine for the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship at Washington University from 2018-22, on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) from 2016-18 and was the program chair for the 2018 American Orthopaedic Association annual meeting. He served as co-chair of the AAOS Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for Acute Meniscal Pathology and the recent AAOS CPG Updates for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tears and Non surgical management of Knee Osteoarthritis. He has been an AOA ABC Traveling Fellow, AOSSM-ESSKA Traveling Fellow, AOA-AAOS North American Traveling Fellow and ICRS Lars Peterson Traveling Fellow. He graduated from Stanford University, where he played on the men’s soccer team, with degrees in electrical engineering, industrial engineering and economics. After earning his medical degree from the Washington University School of Medicine in 2001, he completed a residency in orthopedic surgery and a fellowship in sports medicine and shoulder surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, NY. His clinical interests focus on the knee and shoulder, particularly knee ligament surgery, including ACL and PCL reconstruction, meniscus surgery, including repairs and transplantation, and cartilage repair surgery such as microfracture, OAT, MACI and osteochondral allograft as well as shoulder stabilization, labral repair and rotator cuff repair. A former collegiate and professional soccer player, he has a special interest in the treatment and prevention of injuries in soccer athletes.
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6/4/2025 07:56 - 08:02

Pitter 1-2

Session 1: Knee - ACL Lecture Development of an Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Prevention Program in the National Football League: A Comprehensive Framework Faculty