Michael Chiu, MD

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Dr. Michael Chiu is a sports fellowship trained and board-certified orthopedic sports medicine surgeon, certified in the subspecialty of Sports Medicine. He specializes in advanced nonsurgical treatment to minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery of the hip, knee, shoulder and elbow, using cutting edge techniques in tendon repair, complex ligament reconstruction, cartilage restoration and joint preservation. He has served as faculty at national courses teaching advanced surgical techniques to other orthopedic surgeons, presented at numerous academic meetings, conducted research, authored and published in peer reviewed journals, and written book chapters on various topics, including ACL injuries, hip labral repairs, shoulder instability, and elbow arthroscopy techniques. As a sports team physician who has treated intercollegiate, professional, international and olympic athletes, returning numerous back to sports with or without surgery, Dr. Michael Chiu has the experience to treat adult and pediatric athletes at all levels and draws on a full armamentarium- from injury prevention and rehabilitation, performance enhancement and regenerative therapy, to arthroscopic or open surgery when needed. To complement his medical expertise, he has the personal background to understand the competitive drive, having played on, and later coached, an Illinois state championship high school varsity soccer team. Dr. Michael Chiu is an active fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and Arthroscopy Association of North America. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Loyola University Chicago, obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree with honors at Chicago Medical School, and finished his internship and orthopedic residency at Henry Ford Hospital. He completed the Orthopaedic Sports Medicine fellowship at the prestigious University of Chicago. He served on the team of physicians to the Chicago Bears and is currently the head team physician for the Schaumburg Boomers.