Ryan Quigley, MD PhD

Biography

Ryan was born in raised in the central valley of California outside of Clovis, CA. Close to the Sierra Nevadas, he spent much of his childhood outdoors enjoying hikes in Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. He attended Buchanan High school where he was an avid athlete in both Soccer and Baseball, and graduated as Valedictorian. Opting to pursue an engineering education over collegiate soccer scholarships, he attended UC Berkeley. He began as a Mechanical Engineering major prior to changing his degree to Bioengineering to apply engineering principles to the human musculoskeletal system. During his degree he become fascinated with Orthopedic Biomechanics and chose to continue his career pursuing his MD/PhD at UC Irvine in a combined 8 year program.

His PhD was under the esteemed Thay Q. Lee in the Orthopaedics Biomechanics Laboratory. During his time in the laboratory he had the opportunity to work on cadaveric biomechanical projects in the human shoulder, elbow, wrist, knee, and spine. This ultimately led to his dissertation work which was the development of a cadaveric carpal kinematic testing system that was the first of its kind to incorporate grip to simulate physiologic loading for kinematic testing. He was involved in all aspects of development from machining, coding, electrical, kinematic calculations, and 3D modeling. In addition to his disseration, while involved in other projects he worked with many leaders in the field of Shoulder & Elbow surgery including Drs. Stephen Burkhart, Joseph Iannotti, Ranjan Gupta, Teruhisa Mihata of Japan, Joo Han Oh of Korea, Sang-Jin Shin of Korea, Jae-Chil Yoo, and Kyung-Chil Chung.

Upon Completion of his PhD he returned to medical school and matched at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX for his orthopedic surgery residency. A trauma heavy, and resident driven residency, he worked at Ben Taub County Hospital (Level I Trauma Center), Michael E. Debakey VA Medical Center (largest in the country), MD Anderson, Texas Children's Hospital, and Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center. During residency he served as the administrative chief resident. He also continued his biomechanical studies establishing a new collaberation between Baylor and Dr. Ambrose at UT Houston to desigin a new biomechanical testing system for the evaluation of distal component fixation in Total Wrist Arthroplasty with Dr. Brian Adams. In his final year he was afforded the opportuntiy to complete an international fellowship and travelled to Nice, France to work with the renowned Pascal Boileau at the Nice Shoulder Institute.

Ryan trained at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago, IL for his Shoulder and Elbow Fellowship where he was under the mentorship of the renowned Drs. Gregory Nicholson, Grant Garrigues, Brian Cole, and Nikhil Verma. He performed over 750 surgeries in his fellowship year including open shoulder procedures, arthroscopic shoulder procedures, elbow ligamentous reconstructions including UCL reconstruction (Tommy John's), elbow arthroscopy, and upper extremity trauma. His fellowship year consisted of over 250 shoulder replacements, 200 arthroscopic rotator cuff repairs, and 100 shoulder instability repairs (both open and arthroscopic). During his fellowship he also cared for the professional athletes Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls including spring training and draft evaluations.

Ryan then joined the Morse Campus Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento, California where he began his dedicated shoulder/elbow and upper extremity trauma practice. There he serves as the Surgeon Lead for the Shoulder Replacement Program. This is a multi disciplinary program that: 1) Educates patients preoperatively on the surgical process and post surgical rehabilitation process; 2) Idenitifies specific factors preoperatively that could affect surgical outcomes and optimize them; 3) Coordinates surgeon, nurses, therapists, and home health to provide the highest level of patient care; 4) Provide a streamlined process for shoulder replacement that leads to >90% of shoulder replacements being done as same day surgery.