Edward G McFarland


Edward G McFarland is the Wayne H. Lewis Professor of Shoulder Surgery in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He specializes in the treatment of the shoulder.

Education

McFarland was born on July 28, 1956 in Paducah, KY. He attended Clark Elementary School, Brazelton Junior High School and then Paducah Tilghman High School, where he was team captain for the 1973 State Championship football team, and was selected first team All-State in football as a defensive back by the Louisville Courier Journal.
He attended Murray State University where he lettered four years in football as a defensive safety, and he was All-Ohio Valley Conference first team his sophomore, junior and senior years. He went to the University of Louisville School of Medicine, graduating in 1982. He did his orthopedic residency at The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, and performed a sports medicine fellowship at The Kerlan-Jobe Clinic in Inglewood, CA.

Medical career

He was appointed assistant professor in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Florida, and was also a team physician for the University of Florida baseball, volleyball, track, tennis and swim teams. He left in 1992 to go to The Johns Hopkins University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in Baltimore, MD where he began the Division of Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery.
He was a consulting team physician for the Baltimore Orioles from 1992 to 2014. He was a traveling fellow for the Austria-Switzerland-Germany fellowship of the American Orthopaedic Association, for the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine and for the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons. He began the Division of Shoulder Surgery at Hopkins in 2003. He was promoted to full professor in 2015. He published the first book dedicated exclusively to examination of the shoulder in 2005. He became the Wayne H Lewis Professor of Shoulder Surgery in 2007. He was the President of the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons in 2011-2012.

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