James L. Carey, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Attending Staff, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Attending Staff, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Director, Penn Center for Advanced Cartilage Repair and Osteochondritis Dissecans Treatment, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Attending Staff, Pennsylvania Hospital
Team Orthopaedic Surgeon, Penn Quakers Men's Basketball (NCAA Division I)
Attending Staff, Penn Medicine University City Ambulatory Surgical Facility
Program Director, Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowship, Pennsylvania Hospital
Head Team Orthopaedic Surgeon, Philadelphia Flyers (National Hockey League)
Assistant Team Orthopaedic Surgeon, Philadelphia Eagles (National Football League)
Department: Orthopaedic Surgery
Contact information
Penn Sports Medicine Center
Weightman Hall, First Floor
235 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Weightman Hall, First Floor
235 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: (215) 615-4400
Fax: (215) 615-4405
Fax: (215) 615-4405
Education:
B.S.E. (Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering)
Duke University, 1996.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2001.
M.P.H. (Public Health)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2009.
Permanent linkB.S.E. (Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering)
Duke University, 1996.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2001.
M.P.H. (Public Health)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2009.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) SurgeryArthroscopic Knee Surgery
Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair
Arthroscopic Shoulder Surgery
Cartilage Transplantation
Knee Cartilage Tear
Knee Instability
Knee Loose Bodies
Knee Reconstruction -- Ligament
Meniscus Tears
Osteochondritis Dissecans
Pediatric Sports Medicine
Shoulder Dislocation
Sport Related Knee Injury
Sport Related Shoulder Injury
Description of Research Expertise
Osteochondritis DissecansFocal Articular Cartilage Injuries
Prospective Cohort Studies
Reliability Studies
Epidemiology
Statistics
Selected Publications
ROCK Group; Nissen CW, Albright JC, Anderson CN, Busch MT, Carey JL, Carlson C, Carsen S, Chambers HG, Crepeau A, Edmonds EW, Ellermann JM, Ellis HB Jr, Erickson JB, Fabricant PD, Godin J, Ganley TJ, Green DW, Grimm NL, Heyworth BE, Hui Hoi Po J, Kocher MS, Koehler R, Krych AJ, Latz KH, Loveland DM, Lyon RM, Meenen NM, Milewski MD, Myer GD, Nelson BJ, Nepple JJ, Nguyen JC, Pace JL, Paterno MV, Pennock AT, Perkins CA, Polousky JD, Riley P, Saluan P, Shea KG, Tompkins MA, Wall EJ, Weiss JM, Willimon SC, Wilson PL, Wright RW, Kostyun RO: The efficacy of bracing in nonoperative care of medial femoral condyle osteochondritis dissecans: a study from the Research in OsteoChondritis of the Knee (ROCK) Study Group. Am J Sports Med. 54: 1415-22, 2026.Stoeckl BD, Flaugh RA, Syed AN, Masada KM, Bernstein ER, Lemmon EA, Jenk AC, Laforest LG, Fogarty NL, Dehghani B, Scanzello CR, Carey JL, Steinberg DR, Mauck RL: Intra-articular delivery of recombinant interleukin-1 receptor antagonist protein (Anakinra) enhances graft function in a porcine model of osteochondral repair. Am J Sports Med. 54: 647-57, 2026.
Pennings JS, Huston LJ, Haas AK, Allen CR, Cooper DE, DeBerardino TM, Dunn WR, Lantz BA, Spindler KP, Stuart MJ, Albright JP, Ned Amendola A, Annunziata CC, Arciero RA, Bach BR Jr, Baker CL 3rd, Bartolozzi AR, Baumgarten KM, Berg JH, Bernas GA, Brockmeier SF, Brophy RH, Bush-Joseph CA, Butler V JB, Carey JL, Carpenter JE, Cole BJ, Cooper JM, Cox CL, Creighton RA, David TS, Flanigan DC, Frederick RW, Ganley TJ, Garofoli EA, Gatt CJ Jr, Gecha SR, Giffin JR, Hame SL, Hannafin JA, Harner CD, Lindsay Harris N Jr, Hechtman KS, Hershman EB, Hoellrich RG, Johnson DC, Johnson TS, Jones MH, Kaeding CC, Kamath GV, Klootwyk TE, Levy BA, Ma CB, Maiers GP 2nd, Marx RG, Matava MJ, Mathien GM, McAllister DR, McCarty EC, McCormack RG, Miller BS, Nissen CW, O'Neill DF, Owens BD, Parker RD, Purnell ML, Ramappa AJ, Rauh MA, Rettig AC, Sekiya JK, Shea KG, Sherman OH, Slauterbeck JR, Smith MV, Spang JT, Svoboda SJ, Taft TN, Tenuta JJ, Tingstad EM, Vidal AF, Viskontas DG, White RA, Williams JS Jr, Wolcott ML, Wolf BR, York JJ, Wright RW: Relationships between PROMIS and legacy patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) scores in the MARS cohort at 10-year follow-up. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 107: 985-93, 2025.
Nguyen JC, Kan JH, Patel VS, Blankenbaker DG, Shea KG, Carey JL, Johnson AM, Jaramillo D, Ganley TJ: Osteochondritis dissecans in children: location-dependent differences (Part I: knee). Pediatr Radiol. 55: 1366-85, 2025.
MARS Group; Fox JA, Huston LJ, Haas AK, Pennings JS, Allen CR, Cooper DE, DeBerardino TM, Dunn WR, Lantz BBA, Spindler KP, Stuart MJ, Amendola AN, Annunziata CC, Arciero RA, Bach BR Jr, Baker CL 3rd, Bartolozzi AR, Baumgarten KM, Berg JH, Bernas GA, Brockmeier SF, Brophy RH, Bush-Joseph CA, Brad Butler V J, Carey JL, Carpenter JE, Cole BJ, Cooper JM, Cox CL, Creighton RA, David TS, Flanigan DC, Frederick RW, Ganley TJ, Gatt CJ Jr, Gecha SR, Giffin JR, Hame SL, Hannafin JA, Harner CD, Harris NL Jr, Hechtman KS, Hershman EB, Hoellrich RG, Johnson DC, Johnson TS, Jones MH, Kaeding CC, Kamath GV, Klootwyk TE, Levy BA, Ma CB, Maiers GP 2nd, Marx RG, Matava MJ, Mathien GM, McAllister DR, McCarty EC, McCormack RG, Miller BS, Nissen CW, O'Neill DF, Owens BD, Parker RD, Purnell ML, Ramappa AJ, Rauh MA, Rettig AC, Sekiya JK, Shea KG, Sherman OH, Slauterbeck JR, Smith MV, Spang JT, Svoboda CRSJ, Taft TN, Tenuta JJ, Tingstad EM, Vidal AF, Viskontas DG, White RA, Williams JS Jr, Wolcott ML, Wolf BR, York JJ, Wright RW: Meniscal repair in the setting of revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: 6-year follow-up results from the MARS cohort. Am J Sports Med. 53: 3435-45, 2025.
Carey JL: Deeper dive into methodology: power analysis. Am J Sports Med. 53: 2511-3, 2025.
Kuhn JE, Dunn WR, Sanders R, Baumgarten KM, Bishop JY, Brophy RH, Carey JL, Holloway BG, Jones GL, Ma CB, Marx RG, McCarty EC, Poddar SK, Smith MV, Spencer EE, Vidal AF, Wolf BR, Wright RW: The predictors of surgery for symptomatic, atraumatic full-thickness rotator cuff tears change over time: ten-year outcomes of the MOON Shoulder prospective cohort. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2024 Notes: (Online ahead of print).
MARS Group; Vasavada K, Vasavada V, Moran J, Devana S, Lee C, Hame SL, Jazrawi LM, Sherman OH, Huston LJ, Haas AK, Allen CR, Cooper DE, DeBerardino TM, Spindler KP, Stuart MJ, Ned Amendola A, Annunziata CC, Arciero RA, Bach BR Jr, Baker CL 3rd, Bartolozzi AR, Baumgarten KM, Berg JH, Bernas GA, Brockmeier SF, Brophy RH, Bush-Joseph CA, Butler V JB, Carey JL, Carpenter JE, Cole BJ, Cooper JM, Cox CL, Creighton RA, David TS, Dunn WR, Flanigan DC, Frederick RW, Ganley TJ, Gatt CJ Jr, Gecha SR, Giffin JR, Hannafin JA, Lindsay Harris N Jr, Hechtman KS, Hershman EB, Hoellrich RG, Johnson DC, Johnson TS, Jones MH, Kaeding CC, Kamath GV, Klootwyk TE, Levy BA, Ma CB, Maiers GP 2nd, Marx RG, Matava MJ, Mathien GM, McAllister DR, McCarty EC, McCormack RG, Miller BS, Nissen CW, O'Neill DF, Owens BD, Parker RD, Purnell ML, Ramappa AJ, Rauh MA, Rettig AC, Sekiya JK, Shea KG, Slauterbeck JR, Smith MV, Spang JT, Svoboda SJ, Taft TN, Tenuta JJ, Tingstad EM, Vidal AF, Viskontas DG, White RA, Williams JS Jr, Wolcott ML, Wolf BR, Wright RW, York JJ: A novel machine learning model to predict revision ACL reconstruction failure in the MARS cohort. Orthop J Sports Med. 12: 23259671241291920, 2024.
Kuhn JE, Dunn WR, Sanders R, Baumgarten KM, Bishop JY, Brophy RH, Carey JL, Holloway BG, Jones GL, Ma CB, Marx RG, McCarty EC, Poddar SK, Smith MV, Spencer EE, Vidal AF, Wolf BR, Wright RW; Multicenter Orthopaedic Outcomes Network (MOON) Shoulder Group: 2024 Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughan Award: Nonsurgical treatment of symptomatic, atraumatic full-thickness rotator cuff tears -- a prospective multicenter cohort study with 10-year follow-up. J Am Acad Orthop Surg. 32: 1961-73, 2024.
Milewski MD, Miller PE, Gossman EC, Coene RP, Tompkins MA, Anderson CN, Bauer K, Busch MT, Carey JL, Carsen S, Chambers HG, Coene RP, Edmonds EW, Ellermann J, Ellis HB Jr, Erickson J, Fabricant PD, Ganley TJ, Gossman EC, Green DW, Heyworth BE, Hoi Po Hui J, Kocher MS, Krych AJ, Latz K, Lyon RM, Mayer S, Milewski MD, Miller PE, Nelson BJ, Nepple JJ, Nguyen JC, Nissen CW, Lee Pace J, Paterno MV, Pennock AT, Perkins C, Polousky JD, Saluan P, Shea KG, Tompkins MA, Wall EJ, Weiss JM, Willimon C, Wilson P, Wright RW, Zbojniewicz A, Myer GD: A simple clinical predictive model for arthroscopic mobility of osteochondritis dissecans lesions of the knee. Am J Sports Med. 52: 3543-50, 2024.