Clifford Colwell Jr., MD

Started Practice: 1968

Scripps Clinic & Scripps Green Hospital Leadership Roles:

• Director, Alfred A. and Marian E. Smith Joint Mechanics Laboratory
• Director, Shiley Center for Orthopaedic Research and Education at Scripps Clinic

Teaching Roles:

• Clinical Professor, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
• Clinical Member, Department of Academic Affairs, Scripps Clinic
• Adjunct Clinical Professor, Department of Basic Science and Clinical Research, The Scripps Research Institute
• Director, Lower Extremity Reconstruction Fellowship Program, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery

Professional Societies:

• American Medical Association
• California Medical Association
• San Diego County Medical Society
• American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
• Association for Research in General Orthopaedics
• Western Orthopaedic Association
• California Orthopeadic Association, Inc.
• Wilson-Bost Interurban Club
• San Diego Rheumatism Society
• Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons
• Orthopaedic Research Society
• Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, Board of Trustees
• Knee Society
• La Societe Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopaedique et de Traumatologie
• American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons
• American Orthopaedic Society
• American Orthopaedic Association
• Hip Society
• National Institutes of Health, Orthopaedic Research Grant Request Review
• Department of Health & Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB)

Board Membership:

• YMCA Board of Directors

Honors & Awards:

• Francis West, MD Award, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine – In recognition of outstanding contributions to resident education, 1991 & 1994
• Knee Society Award – A Clinical Trial Comparing the Efficacy and Safety of Enoxaparin: A Low Molecular Weight Heparin and Unfractionated Heparin for the Prevention of Deep Venous Thrombosis after Elective Knee Replacement Surgery, 1995
• Nicolas Andry Award – Venous Thromboembolic Disease Prophylaxis and Surveillance in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty. Awarded by the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research and based on a body of work dealing with the musculoskeletal system done over an extended time, 1997
• The Spirit of Scripps Award, 1999
• International Award for Basic Cartilage Research from the International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS), 2000
• HAP Paul Award- Tibial Forces Measured In Vivo after Total Knee Arthroplasty from the International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty (ISTA) for the best paper on the development of and/or the evaluation of new technology relating to joint replacement, 2004
• Chitranjan Ranawat Award – In Vivo Knee Forces after Total Knee Arthroplasty from The Knee Society for the best work on surgical technique, 2004
• Kappa Delta Award – Cartilage Injury Chondrocyte Apoptosis and Matrix Degradation: In Vitro, In Vivo and Clinical Consequences from the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) for outstanding basic research related to the musculoskeletal system, 2004
• Best Paper Award – Dynamic Intraoperative Ligament Balancing for Total Knee Arthroplasty, from the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons, 2006

Research Focus:

• Lower extremity reconstruction

Clinical Interests Within Specialty:

• Lower extremity reconstruction