Dr. Brian J. White was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. He attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia for undergraduate study and earned a B.A. in Chemistry. Dr. White then received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine. He went on to complete his orthopaedic surgical training at New York University and the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City. Dr. White’s training provided an excellent and broad foundation with a focus on hip and knee replacement. It also allowed him, as a senior resident, to complete an orthopaedic trauma rotation at R. Cowley Adams Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, MD where he learned advanced techniques in fracture management. With this broad orthopaedic base, Dr White enhanced his training with a sports medicine fellowship at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic in Vail, Colorado. He worked with world-renown mentors, such as Drs. J. Richard Steadman and Marc J. Philippon, and acquired pioneering techniques of the hip, knee and shoulder. After completing his fellowship training, Dr. White joined Western Orthopaedics. He performs hip arthroscopy for femoracetabular impingement (FAI) and labral tears, and knee arthroscopy. Additionally, he performs total joint replacements of the hip and knee and repairs fractures of both the upper and lower extremities.
Since practicing at Western Orthopaedics, Dr. White has been given the opportunity to be an assistant team physician for the Denver Nuggets. He is also a consultant for Smith and Nephew Hip Arthroscopy. With this position, Dr. White has become actively involved in the development of new instrumentation for hip arthroscopy to improve the arthroscopic treatment of FAI. Believing in the collegial community of Orthopaedic surgeons and wanting to improve the overall care of patients with hip pathology, Dr. White teaches orthopaedic surgeons across the country cutting-edge arthroscopic techniques in labral repair and the arthroscopic treatment for femoracetabular impingement. In 2009, Dr. White was named as the co-director for the Hip Preservation Division of the Denver Clinic at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center in Denver.
Dr. White is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery and a member of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.
Dr. White has also been chosen as the Director for the Hip Preservation Team for the Denver Clinic for Extremities at Risk at Presbyterian St Lukes. For more information click here.
My Approach to Treating Patients
I was drawn to medicine and Orthopaedic surgery as a result of my personal experience as an orthopaedic patient when I was in high school. I believe this has helped me to become a more compassionate and empathetic physician. My goal with you as a patient is to help you understand your Orthopaedic diagnosis and all of the possible treatments, both non-operative and surgical, for this problem. Once this is done, we together can decide what is the best possible treatment option for you. When we make this partnership, outcomes are improved and your expectations will be met.