Dr. Michael Reyes joined Peninsula Orthopedic Associates (POA) after 4½ years of orthopedic practice in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he was Chief of the Bone & Joint Center at Straub Clinic & Hospital. His interests include general orthopedics, trauma, and joint replacement surgery.

Born in Philadelphia, he was raised and educated in Manila, California, and Pennsylvania. He attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. He then trained in orthopedic surgery at the University of Southern California. Subsequently, he completed 2 subspecialty fellowships, in Orthopedic Trauma and in Adult Reconstruction/Joint Replacement Surgery, both also at U.S.C.

Dr. Reyes is especially interested in the treatment of arthritis, through both surgical and non-surgical means. Joint replacement surgery, although typically quite successful, is still major surgery with associated postoperative pain, and even rarely, complications. Dr. Reyes' main focus in his practice today is in applying new and cutting-edge technology to make hip & knee replacement surgery easier, safer, less painful, and with speedier recovery.

Some of these new and exciting advances in the field of joint replacement surgery include Minimally-Invasive Surgery, Computer Navigation, Alternate Bearing Surfaces in Hip Replacements, and Mobile Bearing Knee Replacements.

The following is a list of some of the specialty procedures that Dr. Reyes performs:

• Total knee replacement
• Total hip replacement
• MIS (minimally invasive surgery)
• Arthroplasty
• Partial knee replacement
• Hip resurfacing
• Reconstruction of hip and knee
• Computer navigation
• Computer assisted surgery
• Muscle sparing
• Quadriceps sparing
• Anterior approach for hip replacement
• Alternate bearing hip replacements
  • a) metal on metal
  • b) ceramic on ceramic
• Core decompression for avascular necrosis of the hip
• Osteotomy

Dr. Reyes has been featured in the media as well. Click on the below links to view these articles:

• Filipinas June 2006
• Senior Focus - Mills Pen
• Seton Health

Current Medical Practice:

Peninsula Orthopedic Associates, Inc., February 2006 to present

Previous Medical Practice:

• Staff Physician, Orthopedic Surgery
  Bone & Joint Center, 3rd Floor Makai
  Straub Clinic & Hospital, 888 S. King Street
  Honolulu, HI 96813
  08/01-01/06
• Department Chief
  Bone & Joint Center
  Straub Clinic & Hospital
  Honolulu, HI
  01/04-01/06
• Clinical Instructor
  Attending Surgeon
  University of Southern California
  Department of Orthopedic Surgery
  08/00-07/01
• Consulting Physician, Orthopedic Surgery
  Clinica Medica General
  Los Angeles, CA
  10/99-05/00

Education:

• M.D. from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  Philadelphia, PA
  08/90-05/95
• Haverford College
  Haverford, PA
  Bachelors degree in Cell & Molecular Biology
  09/86-05/90

Post Graduate Training:

Internship:

• University of Southern California Internship in Orthopaedic Surgery Los Angeles, CA
  06/95-06/96

Residency:

• University of Southern California
  Residency in Orthopaedic Surgery
  Los Angeles, CA
  06/96-06/00

Fellowship:

• University of Southern California
  Fellowship in Orthopaedic Trauma
  Los Angeles, CA
  10/00-07/01
• University of Southern California
  Fellowship in Adult Reconstruction/Joint Hip Replacement Surgery
  Los Angeles, CA
  08/00-07/01

Awards and Distinctions:

• Special Resident Teaching Award
• Distinction in education selected by graduating residents awarded at June 2001 University of Southern California Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Graduation
• American Heart Association Research Fellowship Award
• awarded April 1991

Licensure:

State of California
State of Hawaii

Board Certification:

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, July 2005

Professional Organizations/Committees:

• American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Candidate Member, 2000
• California Medical Association, 1996
• Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1995
• Hawaii Medical Association, 2002
• Hawaii Orthopaedic Association, 2003

Publications:

• "Atlas of Orthopaedic Surgical Exposures"
  Released 01/00, Jordan C., Mirzabeigi E., editors
  Spine Section Author
• Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, 07/98-06/00
  Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
  Dr. Jackson Lee, Co-Principal Investigator
  "Does Demoral Interlocking-Compression Nailing Alter Pain and Weightbearing in the Early Postoperative Period? A Pilot Study."
  Co-Principal Investigator
• Reyes ML, Gronley JK, Newsam CJ, Mulroy SK, Perry J. "Electromyographic analysis of shoulder muscles of men with low-level paraplegia during a weight relief raise." Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1995 May 76(5):433-439.
• Perry J, Gronley JK, Newsam CJ, Reyes ML, Mulroy SJ. "Electromyographic analysis of the shoulder muscles during depression. Transfers in subjects with low-level paraplegia." Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1996 April 77(4):350-355.
• University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, 05/91-03/92
  West Philadelphia Improvement Corps (WEPIC)
  Healthcare Profile of the Turner Community
  Establishing a School-Based Health Center
  Principal Investigator
• Haverford College, 09/89-05/90
  Department of Biology
  "Isolating a Specific Enzyme that Breaks the Glutamine-Lysine Bonds in Blood Clots."
  Dr. Ariel Lowey, Preceptor
  Research Laboratory Assistant