David R. Diduch, MD

Dr. David R. Diduch is the Allen F. Voshell Professor and Division Head of Sports Medicine at the University of Virginia. He is also the former Vice Chair of the department. Dr. Diduch is the Head Orthopaedic Team Physician for UVA Athletics and has primary coverage for men’s basketball, football, and women’s soccer teams. Dr. Diduch’s training started with college at UNC followed by medical school at Harvard and Orthopaedic residency at UVA. After his Sports fellowship in New York at the Insall-Scott-Kelly Institute he joined the UVA faculty in 1995. His practice is split between knee and shoulder surgery and the care of injured athletes.

A major area of clinical and research focus for Dr. Diduch involves taking care of patients with patella instability. He has extensive experience with treating complex patella instability problems with cutting edge techniques, including tibial tubercle osteotomy, MPFL reconstruction, and limb realignment. Dr. Diduch is one of very few surgeons in the US performing deepening trochleoplasty procedures for trochlear dysplasia and patella instability. His other research interests include post ACL surgery return to play decision making, articular cartilage and meniscal repair, and novel knee unloading devices for early arthritis.

Dr. Diduch has received the UVA School of Medicine Master Clinician Award, served as Chair of numerous committees for AOSSM as well as the Council of Delegates, served as President of the Virginia Orthopaedic Society, and has been inducted into the Herodicus Society. His recent honors include receiving the Charles W. Miller Resident Teaching Award for 2021, the University of Virginia Research Collaboration Award in 2020, and he has been consistently named in both “America’s Top Doctors,” and “Best Doctors in America.”

Beyond Orthopaedics

Dr. Diduch has been married to Lynn for over 30 years and has three grown boys, all of whom graduated from UVA.

Allen F. Voshell Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Virginia

Head Orthopaedic Team Physician, University of Virginia

Director, Sports Medicine Fellowship Program

Medical Director, Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Clinic

Medical Director, UVA Outpatient Surgery Center

Specialty: Orthopaedic Surgery

Subspecialty: Sports Medicine

Patella Instability (including tibial tubercle osteotomy, MPFL reconstruction, and limb realignment)

Trochleoplasty procedures for trochlear dysplasia and patella instability

Primary:University of North Carolina
Harvard Medical School
Masters of Science, University of Virginia

Residency: Resident in Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Virginia

Fellowship: Fellow in Sports Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery of the Knee, Insall Scott Kelly Institute, New York

• America’s Top Doctors, Castle Connolly Medical (2011-2021)
• Best Doctors in America (2003-2021)
• U.S. News Top Doctors (2011-2013, 2014, 2016)
• Career Development Award, Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation
• Master Clinician Award, UVA School of Medicine
• Best Paper Award, Virginia Orthopaedic Society (5 Awards)
• Ranawat Award, Eastern Orthopaedic Association
• Founders Award, Eastern Orthopaedic Association
• Excellence in Teaching Award, UVA School of Medicine

Board Certified in Orthopaedic Surgery (American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery)

Subspecialty Certification in Sports Medicine (American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine)

Licensed to practice in Virginia

Dr. Diduch has an active interest in post ACL surgery return to play decision making, articular cartilage and meniscal repair, and novel knee unloading devices for early arthritis.

Current IRB Studies

Calypso Knee System for Medial Knee OA

MISHA Post-Market Registry

Evaluation of the Patellar LIFT System for Subjects with Patellofemoral Cartilage Degeneration (PELICAN)

Trochleoplasty 5 Year Update

BML Unloader Brace Study

Patellar Height After MPFL, Trochleoplasty, or TTO

Patellar Tunnels for Patellar-Sided Graft Fixation During MPFL Reconstruction are a Safe and Reliable Alternative: A Study of Over 600 Knees

Multifocal Calcific Tendinitis with Symptomatic MCL Deposition Treated with US and Barbotage

The Incidence of Complications of Tibial Tubercle Osteotomy: A Systematic Review

Deflexion Osteotomy and ACL-R Revision

Youth Football neck injury study:

www.healthscout.com/news/68/613336/main.html

www.abcnews.go.com/health/healthday/story?id=4510729&page=1

www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS31365+08-Mar-2008+PRN20080308

www.sportsmed.org/tabs/newsroom/AOSSMPressReleases.aspx

www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/100011.php

NBC-29 Television news, Nov 2, 2008, reported by Claire O’Brien

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