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Office
St. Luke's Orthopedic Hospital - West End Campus
521 Cetronia Rd
Allentown, PA 18104Phone+1 866-785-8537Fax+1 443-769-1281
Summary
- Matthew Best, M.D., is a sports medicine orthopaedic surgeon with expertise in sports-related injuries of the knee, shoulder and elbow. Dr. Best has experience caring for athletes at all levels and has served as an assistant team physician for numerous professional and collegiate sports teams, including the New England Patriots, the New England Revolution and Harvard University Athletics. He specializes in conditions such as rotator cuff tears, shoulder instability or labral tears, cartilage injuries of the knee, ACL tears, meniscus tears, UCL injuries of the elbow (Tommy John surgery) and shoulder arthritis.
Dr. Best completed his fellowship in sports medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where he was selected for the Frisbie Family Endowed Fellow Award. He completed his orthopaedic surgery training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and was awarded the Frank L. Coulson Award for Clinical Excellence and the Paul S. Lietman Global Health Scholarship for his outreach work in Kumasi, Ghana. Dr. Best graduated from medical school at the University of Miami, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and was awarded the Benton-Stockman Medical Scholarship and the Dean’s Fund scholarship.
In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Best serves as the sports medicine division director of research, with a focus on improving patient outcomes, reducing complications and enhancing value-based health care delivery. He has over 100 scientific publications, book chapters and presentations at national and international meetings.
Clinical Expertise
- Elbow medial ulnar collateral ligament repair, Cartilage restoration, Rotator cuff repair, Shoulder stabilization, Shoulder instability, Tendon transfer, Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, Shoulder replacement, Superior labral antero-posterior tears, Meniscus repair, Shoulder dislocations, Biceps tendon repair, Shoulder arthroscopy, Biceps tendonitis, Knee arthroscopy, Patellar instability, Revision rotator cuff repair, Lower trapezius tendon transfer, Coracoid transfer, Latarjet procedure
Education & Training
- Johns Hopkins Carey Business SchoolMBA, 2021 - 2024
- Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolFellowship, Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, 2020 - 2021
- Johns Hopkins UniversityResidency, Orthopaedic Surgery, 2015 - 2020
- Johns Hopkins UniversityInternship, Orthopaedic Surgery, 2015 - 2016
- University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of MedicineClass of 2015, MD, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society
Certifications & Licensure
- MD State Medical License 2021 - 2026
- PA State Medical License 2024 - 2024
- MA State Medical License 2020 - 2022
- American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery Orthopaedic Surgery
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Inductee Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Medicare and Medicaid patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty have more complications and healthcare utilization than privately insured patients.William ElNemer, Sribava Sharma, John P Avendano, Myung-Jin Cha, Majd Marrache
Journal of Orthopaedics. 2025-01-01 - Impact of anterior cruciate ligament tears on player efficiency ratings and salary in National Basketball Association over the past 20 years: a retrospective case cont...William ElNemer, Zaid Elsabbagh, Miguel A Cartagena-Reyes, Gabriel Nazario-Ferrer, Sangjun Park
The Physician and Sportsmedicine. 2024-12-18 - Racial and gender disparities in utilization of outpatient total shoulder arthroplasties., Catherine J Fedorka, Xiaoran Zhang, Harry H Liu, Michael B Gottschalk
Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 2024-12-01
Press Mentions
- Are Racial Disparities in Shoulder Arthroplasty Improving or Worsening? September 18th, 2021
- Total shoulder arthroplasties ‘increased substantially’ in the US from 2012 to 2017.September 18th, 2021
- Racial Disparities in Common Surgeries Persist in the United StatesSeptember 18th, 2021
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Professional Memberships
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- Member
- Arthroscopy Association of North AmericaMember
Other Languages
- Spanish
External Links
- St. Luke’s Profilehttps://www.slhn.org/providers/matthew-best-1487033684
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