Speakers

After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Dr. Eric T. Ricchetti, MD, completed his internship and residency in orthopaedic surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. During his residency training, Dr. Ricchetti also completed a year of dedicated research in the McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. Following residency, he completed a fellowship in shoulder and elbow surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, the Rothman Institute.

Eric T. Ricchetti, MD is a staff surgeon in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic and is an Associate Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He holds the Maynard Madden Endowed Professorship in Arthritis Research and is the Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. He is also the Director of the Shoulder Center, as well as Director of the Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Fellowship Program in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Ricchetti’s clinical practice is focused on the treatment of disorders of the shoulder, including management of primary and revision shoulder problems in joint arthroplasty and rotator cuff disease. His research interests have focused on examining clinical outcomes after total shoulder arthroplasty and rotator cuff repair. He has received grant funding from multiple sources related to these areas of research, including an R01 grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and he was recognized with the 2015 Charles S. Neer Award for Basic Science Research by the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES).