Dr. Carol Teitz is a Professor of Orthopaedics and Sports
Medicine at the University of Washington
where she has been on the School of Medicine
faculty since 1980.
She is an honors graduate of the University
of Cincinnati and received her M.D
degree from Yale University School of Medicine. Dr.Teitz completed her
residency in orthopaedic surgery at the University
of Washington and an arthroscopy
fellowship with John McGinty at the Newton-Wellesley
Hospital.
Dr. Teitz’s research interests are primarily in the
epidemiology of sport-related injuries in sports ranging from football to
intercollegiate rowing and dance. She
has presented her original work at numerous national and international
meetings. She has authored 3 books, 18 book chapters, 5 educational web sites,
and 44 journal articles. Her research was awarded the A.O. International Trauma
Award in 1980, and won 3rd place in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine at
the 2001 ISAKOS Congress.
In addition to her orthopaedic academic pursuits, Dr. Teitz dedicated many years to improving the musculoskeletal education for medical
students at the University of Washington.
She chaired the Musculoskeletal Core course from 1984-2002, the Basic
Science of Sports Medicine from 1988-1998, and instituted Problem
Based Learning which she chaired from its inception in 1990 until 2006. Dr. Teitz
co-chaired a review of the medical student curriculum at UW, and still serves
on the curriculum committee. She has been awarded 4 grants for innovative
computer-based programs in musculoskeletal education for the medical students.
Dr. Teitz was the team physician for Figure Skating and Gymnastics for the
1990 Goodwill Games, and a team physician for the 1997 Junior Maccabi Games. She
was also the team orthopaedic surgeon for the University of Washington
Division I athletes in track, cross-country,
rowing, and women’s soccer as well as the Dance Department. While continuing a
focus on injured dancers, Dr. Teitz has shifted from classroom teaching,
research and being a Husky team physician to administration. In 2007 Dr. Teitz
was appointed Dean of Admissions for the UW School of Medicine and now splits
her time between that endeavor and patient care.
In addition to serving on the editorial board of 5 medical
journals, Dr. Teitz has participated in and chaired numerous continuing
education courses for UW and for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
(AAOS) and has given many invited lectures, regionally, nationally, and
internationally. She served on the Sports Medicine Committee of the AAOS and on
the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports for the
NCAA. For the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, (AOSSM), she
has also chaired and served on numerous committees, and was the
Treasurer from 2005 - 2008. She was also chosen to be an AOSSM-WPOA Traveling Fellow in
1993, and the Godparent for the same Fellowship in 2003.
What
do you most enjoy about your work?
I
enjoy the opportunity to solve a diagnostic puzzle and then help the patients
recover from their problems. It is an honor to be part of so many people’s
lives and to help them live the active lifestyle they desire.
What
is the focus of your teaching efforts?
Being
in an academic medical center gives one the opportunity to educate not only
patients, but also health science students, residents, fellows, primary care
doctors and other orthopaedic surgeons. My current teaching is done clinically while seeing patients.
What
do your most recent research efforts focus on?
Back
pain in intercollegiate rowers: prevalence, origin, long-term outlook, and
prevention
What
is the focus of your clinical efforts?
Arthroscopic knee surgery;
musculoskeletal injuries in dancers
Selected Articles
Teitz, C.C., Hermanson, B.K., Kronmal,
R.A. and Diehr, P.H,:Evaluation of the Use of Braces
to Prevent Injury to the Knee in Collegiate Football Players. J. Bone Joint Surg.
69-A:2-9, 1987.
Kadel,
N.J., Teitz,
C.C., and Kronmal, R.: Stress
Fractures in Ballet Dancers.Am J SportsMed.
20:445-449, 1992.
Teitz, C.C., Garrett, W.E., Miniaci,
A., Lee, M.H., and Mann, R.A.:Tendon Problems in the Athletic Individual. J Bone Joint Surg.
79A:138-152, 1997.
Teitz, C.C., Hu, S.S., Arendt,
E.A.: The Female Athlete: Evaluation and Treatment of Sports-Related Problems. J Am
Acad Orthop Surg. 5(2):87-96, 1997.
Teitz, C.C.: Video Analysis of ACL
Injuries. In Prevention of Noncontact ACL
Injuries. American
Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons,
2001.
Teitz, C.C., O’Kane, J., Lind, B.K., and
Hannafin, J.A.: Back Pain in Intercollegiate Rowers.
Am J Sports Med, 30(5): 674-679, 2002.
Teitz, C.C., O'Kane, J., and Lind, B.K.: Back
Pain in Former Intercollegiate Rowers: A
long-term follow-up study. Am J Sports Med, 31(4): 590-595, 2003.
O’Kane J., Teitz C.C., Lind B.K. Effect
of pre-rowing back pain on incidence and severity
of college back pain in intercollegiate rowers. Am J Sports Med, 31(1):80-2, 2003.
Books
Published
Lippert, F.
G. and Teitz, C.C.: Diagnosing Musculoskeletal Problems:A
Practical Guide. Williams & Wilkins, 1987.
Teitz, C.C., ed., Scientific
Foundations of Sports Medicine,B.C. Decker, 1989.
Teitz, C.C., ed., The Female
Athlete. American
Academy of OrthopaedicSurgeons, 1996.
(Translated into Italian, 1998)
Contact Information: 206-543-6595
teitz@u.washington.edu