Accessibility Tools
Michael Shepard, M.D. Profle Picture

Michael Shepard, M.D.Board Certified Sports Medicine Surgeon

Dr. Shepard is a board certified Orthopaedic Surgeon who is subspecialty trained in sports medicine with special emphasis on the care of the overhead athlete. Dr. Shepard's clinical expertise includes elbow and shoulder injuries of the overhead athlete, elbow arthroscopy, and complex knee reconstruction. University of California Irvine Medical Center contracts out to Dr. Shepard to treat all of their multi-ligament knee injuries.

Dr. Shepard is a team physician for the University of California Irvine, Chapman University, and for Santa Ana Junior College. Dr. Shepard devotes Friday nights to multiple local high school football games and treats high school athletes throughout Southern California.

He is team doctor for Servite HS and Villa Park HS. He also participates in providing team coverage to Godinez HS and Crean Lutheran HS in Irvine.

Dr. Shepard grew up in Tustin and attended Foothill High School. Dr. Shepard graduated Summa Cum Laude from UC Davis with a degree in Biochemistry and was also captain of the football team, an All American, and the recipient of the Woody Hayes Award as the nation's top Division II scholar athlete. Dr. Shepard graduated from the UCLA School of Medicine with AOA honors. He earned the McGraw Hill Scholarship as the top medical student in the basic science years. Dr. Shepard completed his residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at UCLA and completed a fellowship in Orthopaedic Basic Science Research at UCLA. Dr. Shepard completed a second fellowship in sports medicine with world renowned Orthopaedic surgeons James R Andrews MD and William Clancy MD at the American Sports Medicine Institute. At ASMI and now at OSI, Dr. Shepard participates in the care of athletes from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA, and the PGA / LPGA tours.

Dr. Shepard has contributed significantly to the research of sports medicine. He has presented his research at numerous national and international scientific meetings. He has been the lead author on numerous publications regarding such topics as the generation of labral lesions in the thrower's shoulder, elbow biomechanics, the diagnosis of meniscal injuries, the forces seen in ACL grafts, and the reconstruction of the posterolateral ligamentous complex of the knee. In 2004, Dr. Shepard's poster presentation on SLAP tears in the shoulder was voted the most outstanding presentation at the annual meeting of the AOSSM - sports medicine society. In 2000, he received the Hip Society's Frank Stinchfield Award for outstanding contribution to Orthopaedic research.

Dr. Shepard is a board certified member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. He lectures and teaches about the special needs and care of athletes to Orthopaedic surgical residents, surgeons, therapists, and athletic trainers. In 2008, he was awarded UC Irvine's volunteer faculty teaching award given to the most outstanding faculty member who is not at the University in a full time capacity. Dr. Shepard is a faculty member for the Kaiser Permanente Sports Fellowship, where he coordinates the sports coverage and the on field management of the Fellows.

Dr. Shepard's outside interests include spending time with his wife Colleen and their four children - Molly, Katie, Erin, and Delaney. If there is any free time, he enjoys all sports, fly-fishing, paddling, photography, travel, and English Bulldogs.

Please visit www.michaelshepardmd.com to find out more about Dr. Michael Shepard.

  • Medicine School
    UCLA School of Medicine
  • B.S. in Biochemistry
    Summa Cum Laude
  • Orthopedic Surgery

Coming soon

  • Philanthropic Business of the Year – National Football Foundation - 2017
  • Orange County Medical Association top doctor – Orthopaedic Surgery - 2017
  • Orange County Medical Association top doctor – Orthopaedic Surgery - 2016
  • Top Photo Portfolio East Africa – Africa Adventure Company - 2016
  • Orange County Medical Association top doctor – Orthopaedic Surgery - 2015
  • Orange County Medical Association top doctor – Orthopaedic Surgery - 2014
  • Medical Advisor, Orange County Athletic Directors Association - 2014
  • Orange County Medical Association top doctor – Orthopaedic Surgery - 2013
  • Medical Advisor, Orange County Athletic Directors Association - 2013
  • Top Doctors America – Orthopaedic Surgery - 2013
  • Orange County Medical Association top doctor – Orthopaedic Surgery - 2012
  • Medical Advisor, Orange County Athletic Directors Association - 2012
  • OCMA top doctor – Orthopaedic Surgery - 2011
  • UCI non-Faculty Teaching Award UCI Dept Orthopaedic Surgery - 2011
  • OCMA top doctor – Orthopaedic Surgery - 2010
  • OCMA top doctor – Orthopaedic Surgery - 2009
  • UCI non-Faculty Teaching Award UCI Dept Orthopaedic Surgery - 2008
  • OCMA top doctor – Orthopaedic Surgery - 2008
  • President Orange County Chapter - Western Orthopaedic Association - 2008
  • Vice President Western Orthopaedic Association - 2006
  • Most Outstanding Scientific Poster Presentation – AOSSM Annual Meeting - 2004
  • Lloyd W Taylor Orthopaedic Research Award
    California Orthopaedic Association Top Resident Paper - 2001
  • Frank Stinchfield Award - Hip Society Research Award –
    Outstanding Contribution to Hip Research - 2000
  • Lloyd W Taylor Orthopaedic Research Award – COA top resident paper - 1999
  • Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society - 1996
  • McGraw Hill Scholarship - top UCLA medical student, basic science years - 1994
  • Short Term Science Training Program - UCLA research scholarship - 1993
  • Chancellor’s Award - top campus and community leadership at UC Davis - 1992
  • National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame Scholar Athlete - 1992
  • NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship - 1992
  • Woody Hayes National Scholar Athlete Award - Top Div II student athlete in nation - 1992
  • Division II All American Defensive Tackle, UCD - 1991
  • Two Time GTE Academic All American Defensive Tackle, UCD - 1990-1991
  • Phi Kappa Phi and Golden Key Honor Societies - 1991
  • University of California Regents Scholarship - 1990 -1992