Dr. Marc Safran
Biography
About Dr. Marc Safran
Dr. Safran is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine at Stanford University. He is also the Chief of the Division of Sports Medicine and Fellowship Director of Sports Medicine. Dr. Safran specializes in Sports Medicine and arthroscopic and ligament reconstructive surgery on the shoulder, elbow, hip and knee. He is considered an expert of sports medicine problems of the hip, elbow, knee and shoulder.
He is a diplomat at the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and member of prestigious societies such as: The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM), the ACL Study Group, the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Society (ASES), the Herodicus Society, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and the Multicenter of Arthroscopic Hip Surgery Outcomes Research Network (MAHORN), the Multicenter Orthopaedic Outcomes Network, and the Society of Tennis Medicine and Science (STMS) in addition to the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). Dr. Safran has served as President of the International Society of Hip Arthroscopy, the largest hip preservation society in the world, as well as currently serving as President of ISAKOS – the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine – the world’s largest orthopaedic sports medicine society with nearly 4,000 members from 93 countries.
Dr. Safran’s practice focuses on arthroscopic management of hip problems as well as knee articular cartilage regeneration and ligament surgery, shoulder surgery and athletic shoulder and elbow problems. He is actively involved in research in these areas.
Dr. Safran graduated from the University of California, Berkeley; Medical School was at Duke University; Internship and Orthopaedic Surgery Residency at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); and Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery Fellowship from the University of Pittsburgh. He also completed a 1 year research fellowship sponsored by the NIH.
He has served as a team physician for many collegiate teams since 1993, in addition to being actively involved with professional tennis most recently as the chief orthopaedic consultant for the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and as a consultant for the NBA Players Association and NHL Players Association. Dr. Safran has cared for many athletes in all the major professional sports organizations, as well as the Olympics, with many of his patients winning Olympic medals in many disciplines.
Dr. Safran has authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific articles, 75 book chapters and seven books on sports medicine as it relates to the shoulder, elbow, knee, hip as well as tennis injuries and biomechanics cartilage research.
Prior to coming to Stanford in the Spring of 2007, Dr. Safran has been in different practices, including being the Chief of Sports Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he also served as a team physician for the University of California, Berkeley. He is on the editorial board of many journals, including the American Journal of Sports Medicine, Journal of Hip Preservation Surgery and the Journal of ISAKOS.
Dr. Safran prides himself on caring for his patients as he would his own family. He knows the importance of being active and, for the competitive athlete, getting back to sports as soon as safely possible.
