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Ryan E. Dobbs, M.D.

Dr dobbsDr. Dobbs received his medical degree from the University of Nevada School of Medicine, and did his orthopaedic residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He has also completed an Orthopaedic Sports Medicine fellowship at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has been practicing at the Reno Orthopaedic Clinic since 2006.

Dr. Dobbs is subspecialty trained in Sports Medicine and is a member of the AOSSM (American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine) and the Washoe County Medical Society.

Dr. Dobbs is Board Certified by The American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and is one of the few physicians in Nevada who has his Certificate of Added Qualifications in Sports Medicine from The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS).  Dr. Dobbs is also an active member of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.

  

Presentations at National Meetings

Medial Patellofemoral Ligament Reconstruction.  Video presentation at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting.  San Diego, CA, 2/2007.  Held over for “Encore Presentation” at 2008 AAOS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, 3/2008.

Total Knee Arthroplasty after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.
Mid-America Annual Meeting.  Podium presentation.  San Antonio, Texas, 4/2006

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in Patients over Fifty.  
Mid-America Annual Meeting.  Podium presentation.  Amelia Island Florida, 4/2005. 
Minnesota Orthopaedic Society.  Podium presentation.  Minneapolis, Minnesota, 5/2005.

Perioperative Morbidity and Thirty-Day Mortality after Intertrochanteric Hip Fractures Treated by Internal Fixation or Arthroplasty.  Mid-America Annual Meeting.  Podium presentation.  Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.  4/2003.

Quadriceps Tendon Rupture After Total Knee Arthroplasty.  
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting.  Podium presentation.  New Orleans, Louisiana.  2/2003.

Perioperative Morbidity and Thirty-Day Mortality after Intertrochanteric Hip Fractures Treated by Internal Fixation or Arthroplasty.  American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting.  Poster presentation.  New Orleans, Louisiana.  2/2003.

Flexion/Extension Roentgenograms of the Cervical Spine in Trauma Screening Protocols.  
Podium presentations:  
- The National Medical Student Research Forum, Galveston, TX.  1998.  
- The Western Student Medical Research Forum, Carmel, CA.  1998.
- The George G. Bierkamper Medical Research Forum, Reno, NV.  1997.

Publications

Dahm EL, Wulf, CA, Dajani KA, Dobbs RE, Levy BA, Stuart MA.  Reconstruction of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament in Patients Over 50 Years.  Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, British, 2008: 90(11): 1446-50.

Hoxie SC, Dobbs RE, Dahm DL, Trousdale RT.  Total Knee Arthoplasty after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.  Journal of Arthroplasty, 2008; 23(7): 1005-8.

Dobbs RE, Greis PE, Burks RT.  Medial Patellofemoral Ligament Reconstruction. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Instructional Video.  Video presented at the AAOS Annual Meeting 2/2007 in San Diego and 3/2008 in San Francisco.  Available for purchase through the AAOS.

LeGrand AB, Greis PE, Dobbs RE, Burks RT.  MPFL Reconstruction.  Sports Medicine and  Arthroscopy Review. 2007 Jun;15(2):72-7. 

Dobbs RE, Greis PE, Burks RT.  Medial Patellofemoral Ligament Reconstruction. Techniques in Knee Surgery.  2007; vol 6(1). 

Dobbs RE, Hanssen AD, Lewallen DG, Pagnano, MW.  Quadriceps Tendon Rupture After Total Knee Arthroplasty: Prevalence, Complications and Outcomes.  Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, American, 2005; 87:37-45.

Dobbs RE, Parvizi J, Lewallen DG.  Perioperative Morbidity and Thirty-Day Mortality after Intertrochanteric Hip Fractures Treated by Internal Fixation or Arthroplasty.  Journal of Arthroplasty, 2005, 20(8):963-6.

Dobbs RE, Parvizi J, Lewallen DG.  Perioperative Morbidity and Thirty-Day Mortality after Intertrochanteric Hip Fractures Treated by Internal Fixation or Arthroplasty.  Excerpts published in The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Annual Meeting Newsletter.

Dobbs RE, Bray TJ and Starich GH.  Flexion/Extension Roentgenograms of the Cervical Spine in Trauma Screening Protocols.  Journal of Investigative Medicine.  1998; 46(1): 160A.