Visiting Surgeon Program

Surgeon Profile

Michael J. O’Brien, M.D.

Medical School

• Tulane  University School of Medicine, 2003

Residency

• University of Maryland, 2008

Fellowship

• Rothman Institute/Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 2009

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Dr. Michael O’Brien received his medical degree from the Tulane University School of Medicine in 2003. After completing his Orthopaedic Surgery residency at the University of Maryland, and a Shoulder and Elbow Reconstruction fellowship at the Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, he returned to New Orleans to become Assistant Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics at Tulane. His interests include arthroscopy of the shoulder and elbow, rotator cuff disease, shoulder and elbow reconstruction including total shoulder replacements and total elbow replacements, sports medicine, ligament reconstruction of the knee, and fracture care in both adults and children. He practices at the Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine in uptown New Orleans.