David P. Green, M.D.

A native Texan, Dr. Green grew up in El Paso, but went to New York City for his orthopaedic and hand surgery training.

In 1970, he joined the full time faculty of the Department of Orthopaedics at the Medical School in San Antonio. For eight years he was the Coordinator of Resident Training, serving also as Chief of the Hand Surgery Service.

While at the medical school, Dr. Green co-authored, with Dr. Charles A. Rockwood, a two volume textbook on fractures that is now in its fifth edition and is the standard reference book on this subject. It is used in all orthopaedic residency training programs throughout the country.

In 1978, he left the medical school and became the first surgeon in San Antonio to devote his practice entirely to hand and upper extremity surgery.

Dr. Green has a special interest and extensive experience in treating athletic injuries of the hand and wrist. He was team physician for the Clark High School football team, and continues to treat high school and college athletes from the San Antonio area and surrounding communities.

He is the hand surgery consultant for the San Antonio Spurs, and has treated numerous professional athletes, including members of the Dallas Cowboys, world class gymnasts, professional rodeo cowboys, and golfers on the PGA tour.

Dr. Green has edited a comprehensive textbook entitled Operative Hand Surgery (now in its fifth edition), which is used not only throughout the entire United States, but by hand surgeons in virtually every country in the world. Because of this book, Dr. Green has an international reputation in hand surgery and has been invited as a guest speaker to many foreign countries. He is also a past president of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, and in 1997 was named the Distinguished Alumnus of his own residency training program, The New York Orthopaedic Hospital.

Dr. Green is an enthusiastic skier, a drop-out bluegrass banjo picker, and a student of the "what ifs" of history. He has published two non-medical books: 1) Taking Stock (1995) Taking Stock; and 2) Place Names of San Antonio (2002), which reveals stories behind the names of over 500 streets, parks, schools, buildings, etc. in Bexar and surrounding counties. A 2^nd edition is due out in the fall of 2006. Learn more about this book by visiting its website - www.sanantonionames.com.

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