Tom Myers, MD

Orthopedic Surgeon - American Sports Medicine Institute

Dr. Myers grew up in Belle Fourche, South Dakota.  After a short and unimpressive basketball career at the University of South Dakota he graduated with a double major in Biology and Chemistry.  His medical career began at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he received his MD in 1996.  He subsequently spent the next 5 and a half years training in orthopedic surgery at Harvard University.  At both Johns Hopkins and Harvard, Dr. Myers conducted research on total knee replacement which led to publications in respected orthopedic journals.  He remained at Harvard for further fellowship training in orthopedic trauma at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a busy level I trauma center in Boston. 

Currently, he is pursuing yet another fellowship, this time in sports medicine at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Alabama.  There he works with noted orthopedic surgeons and assists in coverage of professional and major college teams such as the Washington Redskins and Tampa Bay Devil Rays.  His current research interests include mechanisms of injury in the throwing shoulder, autologous chondrocyte implantation, and biomechanics of the reconstructed ACL.  In fact, he has recently developed the "Myers test for SLAP lesions" which is a sensitive physical exam technique to detect labral pathology in overhead throwing athletes.  In his spare time, he is involved in the development of 4 different concepts for medical devices to be utilized as orthopedic surgical instruments or implants and is currently pursuing these patents.