Orthopaedic Surgeon | Shoulder, Knee, Elbow, Ankle Specialist | Expert Witness

Dr. Stetson is an award winning orthopaedic surgeon who is double board certified in orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine and is the Olympic Team Doctor for the USA Men’s and Women’s Indoor Volleyball Teams.  He is a sports medicine and arthroscopy specialist with an expertise in the surgical reconstruction of complex shoulder, knee, elbow and ankle injuries. He graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) with honors (Phi Beta Kappa, Student Athlete of the Year and Two Time NCAA All-American Volleyball Player) and also from the USC Keck School of Medicine with honors.  He completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center where he had extensive experience in trauma and reconstructive surgery.  He then did a one year fellowship in sports medicine and arthroscopy where he trained under the leaders in arthroscopic surgery at the Southern California Orthopaedic Institute (SCOI). 

Dr. Stetson has an active clinical, private practice and over 90% of his time is spent seeing patients, doing surgery, teaching and doing clinical research.  He has over 25 years of teaching experience as a volunteer professor of orthopaedic surgery at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center where he teaches the residents orthopaedic surgery and arthroscopy.   He has also served as the medical director and on the management committee of out-patient surgery centers.  He is the author of over 45 peer reviewed publications and has over 100 national and international presentations.  He is a Qualified Medical Examiner (QME) for the state of California and has served as an expert witness for the last 15 years in over 60 cases involving complex personal injury, workers compensation, malpractice and product liability cases.

He has traveled all over the world teaching other surgeons arthroscopic surgery and has been named one of “America’s Top Orthopedists” for 15 straight years by the Consumers’ Research Council of America. He has also just been selected to the 2022 Southern California Super Doctors List. This marks the 11th time in a row he has been selected and he is now part of the Super Doctors Southern California Hall of Fame. 

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Dr. Stetson is also the founder of the non-profit Operation Arthroscopy (www.operationarthroscopy.org) whose mission is to “Bring Orthopedic Surgery and Arthroscopy to a World in Need.”

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In 2020, Dr. Stetson and Dr. Christopher Lee formed Stetson Lee Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine (www.stetsonlee.com) with a common purpose:  To provide the best possible orthopaedic care to their patients in a private practice setting.  To learn more about the Mission, Vision and Core Values of Stetson Lee Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, click here

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The Aivio is a giant step forward in content delivery to patients, where they can engage with their healthcare providers in a highly visual and conversational fashion. Patients get educated directly by the providers (and not Dr. Google) in a safe and secure environment and without the limitations of in-person visits. All of their questions are answered at their convenience, and they answer the providers’ questions along the way.  Aivio is at the convergence of proprietary technologies featuring C-Me™ virtual assistants, conversational AI that is controlled by content creators, and traditional rich media formats.

Dr. Stetson is on the Medical Advisory Council for HIA (www.HIA.ai) since 2021 and has been with the company since 2019.  To see and experience this new technology, click here.

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Dr. Stetson was selected by his peers as an outstanding practicing doctor in Southern California for the 11th year in a row.

After an extensive nomination and research process conducted by MSP Communications, the results will be published in Southern California Super Doctors, a separate publication distributed with the January 2022 issue of the Los Angeles Times. This is Dr. Stetson's 11th consecutive year and he is now an Honoree of the Southern California Hall of Fame for Super Doctors.

Dr. Stetson has developed a telesurgery mentoring platform which allows him to connect to other doctors in the operating room in real-time to teach surgical skills. It is called SurgTime.

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What is SurgTime? SurgTime™ is a telesurgery platform that connects the operating surgeon to other surgeons, colleagues and industry representatives allowing real time/live interacting, instruction and mentoring via the internet to anywhere in the world.  The SurgTime™ two-way audiovisual communication pathway with patent pending technology allows an expert surgeon to virtually “scrub in” from anywhere in the world at any time to mentor or guide the local doctor through a complex procedure.  Our mobile unit easily connects to existing operating room equipment.  Whether you’re in medicine, education, or industry you will have unprecedented access to operating room procedures through our portal. 

More information can be found at www.SurgTime.com