An Interview with Don Buford on Orthobiologics.” Journal of Orthopaedic Experience & Innovation, July
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Buford, Don, and Scott Sigman. 2020. “The Ortho Show Podscript: An Interview with Don Buford on Orthobiologics.” Journal of Orthopaedic Experience & Innovation, July. PodScripts The Ortho Show Podscript: An Interview with Don Buford on Orthobiologics Don Buford a, Scott Sigman b Keywords: orthobiologics, prp, bmac, laser Journal of Orthopaedic Experience & Innovation We have an awesome guest, an iconic leader in orthopedic surgery and orthobiologics, Dr. Don Buford. We’re thrilled to have him. Don is a sports medicine orthopedic surgeon, founder of the director of the Texas Orthobiologic Institute a Dr. Don Buford founded The Texas Orthobiologics Institute as a research institute where patients can benefit from the latest vidence e based orthobiologic orthopedic treatments. The most common conditions treated are arthritis pain, back pain, tendon injuries, and sports injuries. Our Institute’s goal is to maximize our patients’ quality of life and minimize their disability from any musculoskeletal condition without surgery whenever possible. We typically perform our orthobiologic therapies in an office based procedures that takes less than an 1 hour. In some cases, we use these PRP and bone marrow concentrate/stem cell injections to assist, accelerate or augment the healing response after a surgical procedure. Dr. Buford has been in an established orthopedic surgery practice in Dallas for over 20 years and has been voted multiple times by Dallas area physicians as one of the best orthopedic surgeons. He has been board certified yb the American Board Of Orthopedic Surgery twice and is a sought after lecturer nationally and internationally on orthopedic surgery and regenerative medicine subjects. Dr. Buford attended Stanford University for the first half of his ollegec career. While at Stanford, he was a member of the baseball team and had a double major in economics and Human Biology. He then transferred to USC where he continued to play baseball and study eco- nomics and the pre-med curriculum. In 1988 he received the Woody Hayes NCAA Division I Academic All-American Award for being the single most outstanding NCAA Divi- sion I male student-athlete. After graduation from USC, he signed his first professional baseball contract with the Baltimore Orioles and also enrolled at UCLA Med- ical School. Dr. Buford played professional baseball as a second baseman and outfielder in the Baltimore Orioles professional organization for 4 years. Dr. Buford’s father, Don Sr., played for the Chicago White Sox ('63 -'68) and the Baltimore Orioles ('68-'72) and played in 3 World Series, winning in 1970 over the Cincinnati Reds. Don Sr. is in the Orioles Hall of Fame. Dr. Buford’s younger brother, Damon, had an 8 year ma- jor league career which included 2 years as the starting center fielder orf the Texas Rangers. After graduating from the UCLA School of Medicine, Dr. Buford completed a 5 year orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of Texas, Southwestern in Dallas. Dr. Buford also completed a one year sports medicine fellowship at the prestigious Southern California Or- thopaedic Institute (SCOI) in 1999 where he learned advanced arthroscopy techniques. Dr. Buford’s interest in orthobiologics was a natural outgrowth of his training in minimally invasive surgery…..both are designed to help patients in the simplest, safest way possible. Since 2008, Dr. Buford has been training clinicians on MSK ultrasound and now orthobiologics as the Director of the MSK Ultrasound and Orthobiologics Course. The course is held twice a year in various locations. Dr. Buford and his course faculty have trained over 1600 clini- cians in MSK ultrasound. b Dr. Scott A. Sigman is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon providing comprehensive care to patients at Orthopedic Surgical Associates of Lowell since 1996. Specializing in Sports Medicine, Dr. Sigman possesses the skills and experience to diagnose and treat sports injuries and conditions affecting the knee and shoulder. In addition to his practice duties, he has served as the Team Physician for the US Ski Jump Team, and serves for the last 20 years as the Team Physician at UMASS Lowell, and is the past Chief of Orthopaedics at Lowell Gen- eral Hospital. Dr. Sigman graduated cum laude with his Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Tufts University, where he played varsity lacrosse and was President of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. He then received his medical degree as a cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and member of the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. Upon graduating with his medical degree, Dr. Sigman completed his postgraduate internship in General Surgery at St. Agnes Hospital, followed by a residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at Tufts Medical Center. Dedicated to furthering his training, Dr. Sigman also completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine at the prestigious Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic, during which he was responsible for the orthopaedic care of the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Dodgers, LA Angels, LA Kings, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, LA Galaxy and USC football. In addition to his extensive training and practice experience, Dr. Sigman has also contributed to numerous publications and research studies regarding advances in the field of orthopaedic surgery. He takes great pride in remaining informed of the latest state-of-the-art arthroscopic techniques for both knee and shoulder surgery. He also gives presentations and lectures and instructional courses to fellow surgeons throughout the world in new shoulder and knee surgery techniques. In 2019, Dr. Sigman was elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Faculty of Sports & Sports Medicine. This cer- tificate is a culmination of his ongoing efforts to change the paradigm of postoperative pain management. Memberships: The Ortho Show Podscript: An Interview with Don Buford on Orthobiologics then, Mark Marquess and Dean Staats. And just the luck of THE ORTHO SHOW the draw was a year behind a fantastic, All-American mid- INTERVIEW WITH DON BUFORD, MD dle infield where I wasn’t about to break in until those guys were graduated and gone. So, after my sophomore year, I Dr. Sigman: Hello world. Dr. Scott Sigman, your favorite did something that was rarely done at the time, which was I opioid-sparing orthopedic surgeon back here for another went to both athletic directors and got a release to transfer episode of The Ortho Show podcast. We’re excited to roll where I wouldn’t lose a year of eligibility because I trans- back into orthopedics at this point post-pandemic. We have ferred within Division 1. So, I transferred from Stanford an awesome guest, an iconic leader in orthopedic surgery down to USC which my parents somehow, I convinced them and orthobiologics, Dr. Don Buford. We’re thrilled to have to do that and transferred back to USC and finished my him. Don is a sports medicine orthopedic surgeon, founder last two years and played under another two great coaches, of the director of the Texas Orthobiologic Institute as well coach Rod Dado and Coach Mike Gillespie. as a director of Orthotalk where he’s one of the leading edu- Dr. Sigman: That’s awesome. So, what a great couple of cators on ultrasound news and orthopedics. It’s a real plea- good schools there you got going on there Don. You did sure to have you on down. It can’t thank you enough. pretty good for yourself too. So, let’s move into orthopedics Dr. Don Buford: Well, thank you for the invitation. I’m here a little bit now. So, one of the things that I find pretty happy to be here. I’m looking forward to it. amazing about you is that you have a complex named after Dr. Sigman: Yes, it’s my pleasure. So, before we roll it or- you, the Buford Complex. I mean I think of people that get thopedics, I want to talk about a little bit of our shared his- things named after, they’re either dead or they’re really old. tory. What year were you born? I mean you got to tell us about the story because I think it’s Dr. Buford: I was born in 66. really cool. Dr. Sigman: So, I was born in 64 and I think your father Dr. Buford: So, I know some of the listeners have heard got traded to the Orioles probably in 67 if I’m not mistaken. it before, but I went to high school in Southern California, Dr. Buford: I think I think that’s right, yes. North Hollywood. And as a senior at this private high Dr. Sigman: Yes, so bottom line is that you and I grew up school, we had the opportunity to do kind of extracurricular together in Baltimore for most of our lives which is really work if we had kept up with our class work. So basically, I pretty cool. I know that Terry Blair who was Paul Blair’s had enough credits to graduate high school. So, I was grant- son was a good friend of mine went to high school with ed the opportunity to spend afternoons off campus three me. One of Jim Palmer’s daughters was running around in days a week. And there were parents of students who had our circles. You and I never really got to meet but I have their names on a list where you could pick from these op- such fond memories of those days for the Baltimore Orioles portunities. And a lot of them were music business, movie when just to let everybody know Don’s father’s Don Buford business because these were the parents of the students in Sr. who was one of the iconic Baltimore Orioles baseball this North Hollywood school.