Presidential Guest Speaker
Stephen Burkhart, MD

Stephen S. Burkhart, MD, specializes in arthroscopic shoulder surgery at The San Antonio Orthopaedic Group in San Antonio, Texas. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at The University of Texas Health Science Center as well as Voluntary Clinical Professor at Baylor College of Medicine.

Dr. Burkhart is a past president of the Arthroscopy Association of North America.  He has authored three textbooks on arthroscopic shoulder surgery and has published approximately two hundred peer-reviewed articles.  He holds forty-one U.S. patents related to arthroscopic surgical devices and procedures.