The Centeno-Schultz Interventional Orthopedics Fellowship Opportunities

The Centeno-Schultz Clinic was the first practice in the US to use Bone Marrow Concentrate for orthopedic injuries way back in 2005 by treating joints and low back disc problems. Since then, we’ve continued to advance the art of regenerative medicine. We’ve made many advances in how cells are harvested, processed, and re-implanted. We’ve developed new procedural techniques and devices. As examples, we run a state of the art injectate biology facility that includes a large clean room processing space and a separate privately funded university style research lab. This allows us to custom fit cell-based therapies to our patients rather than trying to fit our patients into to what a simple automated machine could produce. As another example, rather than blindly injecting bone marrow concentrate into joints and hoping that they end up in the right place, we’ve developed new interventional techniques to precisely place cells in various areas of the MSK system. For instance, we pioneered the percutaneous placement of injectate into the ACL ligament. This technique simply didn’t exist before we realized that many of these patients could avoid surgery by accurately placing injectate into the ligament to heal partial and full thickness tears. Another example of our innovation is in house lab research that lead to a process to dramatically increase the number of bone marrow concentrate that could be isolated from bone marrow in a same day procedure. 

What is Interventional Orthopedics?

We believe that due to advances in regenerative medicine, the rapid evolution in interventional cardiology that happened in the 1980-90s to today will happen in orthopedic care. In the 1980s, most major heart problems were treated with CABG. However, a quiet revolution took place that changed the status quo. Cardiologists began experimenting with percutaneous angioplasty. With every passing year from the 1980′s through the 1990′s, fewer and fewer patients needed open heart surgery and a new medical specialty was born – interventional cardiology. As time went by, more and more surgical procedures were switched to percutaneous. We believe the same thing is happening in orthopedic care with interventional orthopedics replacing more and more surgical procedures through the use of various platelet, cytokine, and growth factor treatments as well as bone marrow concentrate. We also believe that an interventional orthopedics expert needs to be able to place needle and regenerative therapeutics everywhere from the C0-C1 facet joint to the foot MTP joint or in any accessible tendon or ligament under fluoroscopic or ultrasound guidance. In summary, our fellowships are the best of an interventional spine fellowship combined with the best of a sports fellowship but focused on the future by providing extensive experience in PRP and bone marrow concentrate treatment.

Interventional Orthopedics Traditional Fellowship

The traditional fellowship being offered by the Centeno-Schultz Clinic (CSC) in Interventional Orthopedics and Regenerative Medicine is 12 months long. The fellowship year will be broken up as follows:

First 6 Months:

• 80% Proctored clinical care with a focus on the use of various percutaneous stem cell and platelet technologies in regenerative medicine.
• 20% Research – The fellow will assist with current research projects and start a new project. This includes working with the on-site research team.

Second 6 months

• 60% clinical care with the fellow taking on more independent clinical care responsibilities
• 40% Research – The fellow will complete at least 1 research project under CSC supervision and submit for publication by the end of the year. 

Qualifications: Board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Anesthesiology Pain Medicine or Family Practice, Sports Medicine. The applicant must have basic spine, fluoroscopy and MSK ultrasound skills mastered. Prior regenerative medicine experience (simple regenerative techniques such as PRP or prolotherapy) is helpful. At least 100 proctored interventional spine cases under fluoroscopic guidance would be helpful.

Salary: 75K

Job Prospect: The applicant may or may not be offered a position as a staff physician at CSC after completion of the fellowship, depending on performance in the fellowship and the needs of the clinic. Other job opportunities in other parts of the country within the Regenexx network are also available.

Benefits: 401K, medical, dental, vision and an annual luxury health club membership included

Location: Broomfield, Colorado

To apply or for further information, please contact Micah Zackroff at [email protected]