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Misty Suri, M.D. is the newest Fellowship trained Sports Medicine Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Ochsner Sports Medicine Department. Dr. Suri currently is a team physician for: the New Orleans Saints, New Orleans Hornets, University of New Orleans, Loyola University, Dillard University, Delgado, SUNO, Xavier as well as several high schools in the greater New Orleans area.
Dr. Suri graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School here in New Orleans. He went on for his premedical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, completing a Bachelor of Arts in Biology. He then attended medical school at The Chicago Medical School completing a combined degree program, graduating with M.S. in Pathology as well as an M.D. degree. During medical school he was named to Alpha Omega Alpha, the prestigious medical honor society.
Dr. Suri returned to New Orleans completing his Orthopaedic Surgery residency at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation, where he trained under Deryk G. Jones, M.D. After residency, Dr. Suri sought further subspecialty training in the area of Sports Medicine. He finished his Sports Medicine Fellowship at the Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas in Spartanburg, South Carolina, under the direction of Richard J. Hawkins, M.D., the renowned sports and shoulder surgeon, and Drs. Steven B. Singleton, Douglas Wyland, Michael J. Kissenberth, Jason W. Folk and Stefan J. Tolan. The Fellowship at the Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas provided an ideal learning environment for an aspiring sports surgeon. It was a great educational experience with one of the leaders in the world of sports medicine, Dr. Richard J. Hawkins. During the last month of his Fellowship year, Dr. Suri spent time training under Marc Philippon, M.D., the prominent hip arthroscopic surgeon.
During the 1 year of Fellowship training at the Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas, Dr. Suri was honored to be selected as an Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) Traveling Fellow, visiting 12 orthopaedic and arthroscopic centers of excellence throughout the United States, over the course of 1 month. The prestigious AANA Traveling Fellowship involved giving lectures and the exchange of clinical and research ideas with many of the leading arthroscopic surgeons in the United States. Dr. Suri gave lectures presenting his research on microfracture and cartilage healing at the various arthroscopic centers visited during the AANA Traveling Fellowship.
Remarkably, a second Traveling Fellowship was awarded to Dr. Suri, as he was again honored and received the Orthopaedic Research Foundation of the Carolinas (ORFC) Traveling Fellowship, visiting preeminent shoulder and knee orthopaedic surgeons in Europe for 1 month. During the ORFC Traveling Fellowship, Dr. Suri visited with and studied under Pascal Boileau, M.D., in Nice, France; Gilles Walch, M.D. in Lyon, France; Laurent Lafosse, M.D., in Annecy, France; and Alberto Gobbi, M.D., in Milan, Italy.
As a Fellow, Dr. Suri was head team physician for Chesnee High School and assistant team physician for University of South Carolina-Upstate, the Greenville Drive baseball team (Class A Affiliate of Boston Red Sox), and the Colorado Rockies during Spring Training in Tucson, Arizona. As a Resident he assisted Dr. Deryk G. Jones with the New Orleans Hornets.
He is a candidate member of the American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine (AOSSM). A member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, Dr. Suri concentrates his research in the areas of biomechanics of the throwing athlete and cartilage healing. His research is also ongoing at the Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas with projects involving basic science research studying microfracture and cellular migration during cartilage healing, neurohistology of the biceps tendon and studying the use of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation to relieve pain after shoulder surgery. Dr. Suri's research studying microfracture and cartilage healing is under the guidance of Jay Rodrigo, M.D., a pioneer in the field of microfracture surgery and cartilage healing.
Dr. Suri has co-authored presentations at the AOSSM 2006 Annual Meeting, the AAOS 2007 Annual Meeting, the Orthopaedic Research Society, and Canadian Orthopaedic Society. He has been published in several journals including the prestigious American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Instructional Course Lecture (2007) on Shoulder Disorders in the Overhead Athlete.
A two-time tennis champion in medical school and state champion in high school, a varsity letterman in college football; and an avid golfer, soccer, and volleyball player, Dr. Suri enjoys most all athletics.
Dr. Suri's clinical subspecialty practice involves sports medicine and arthroscopic surgery of the shoulder, elbow, hip, knee and ankle. Dr. Suri is experienced in microfracture cartilage surgery, hip arthroscopy, elbow arthroscopy, shoulder surgery, arthroscopic rotator cuff surgery, shoulder instability surgery, biceps tendon surgery, shoulder replacements, reverse shoulder replacements, the Latarjet shoulder procedure, anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and multi-ligament knee reconstruction.
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Clinical Interests
Microfracture cartilage surgery, hip arthroscopy, elbow arthroscopy, shoulder surgery, arthroscopic rotator cuff surgery, shoulder instability surgery, biceps tendon surgery, shoulder replacements, reverse shoulder replacements, the Latarjet shoulder procedure, anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and multi-ligament knee reconstruction
Languages Spoken
English
- Medical School: FUHS/The Chicago Medical School
- Residency: Orthopedic Residency - Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA
- Fellowship: Sports Medicine Fellowship, Steadman-Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas, Spartanburg, SC