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Theodore Miclau, III, MD
Professor and Vice Chair
Trauma
Ted Miclau was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1984 and received his medical degree from Yale School of Medicine in 1988. He completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994. During his residency, he spent nearly one year at the world-renowned AO Research Institute in Davos, Switzerland studying fracture healing. The work resulted in two separate research awards given by the American Orthopaedic Association. After finishing an orthopaedic trauma fellowship at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas in 1995, he was awarded the AO-Jack McDaniel fellowship, given to one U.S. orthopaedic residency graduate per year with an interest in orthopaedic trauma. During this fellowship, Dr. Miclau studied for several months in three prominent trauma centers in Europe: St. Gallen, Switzerland; Hannover, Germany; and Berlin, Germany.
In 1996, Dr. Miclau joined the faculty of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, (UCSF) as an orthopaedic traumatologist at the San Francisco General Hospital, (SFGH). In 2000, he received a five-year Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health to study the role of angiogenesis in fracture repair. This was the first such award given to an orthopaedic surgeon in a decade. He also received the first-ever Career Development award from the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation. In 2001, Dr. Miclau received tenure at UCSF. Dr. Miclau was also the recipient of two prestigious traveling fellowships given by the American Orthopaedic Association to a handful of promising young academic orthopaedic surgeons: the North American Traveling Fellowship (1997; five-week tour of medical centers throughout the U.S. and Canada) and the American British Canadian Traveling Fellowship (2001; six-week tour of medical centers throughout the U.K. and South Africa).
In 2002, Dr. Miclau became the Acting Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at SFGH, and subsequently became the Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at SFGH in 2004. He was also named Vice Chairman and Director of Orthopaedic Trauma of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at UCSF in 2003, and was named the Acting Chairmain of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery this year. He serves on many local and national committees, editorial review boards and grant-review panels. For three years, he has been chair of the Research Committee of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association. He has published over 75 research papers and 10 book chapters. He is an internationally recognized expert on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of bone regeneration and repair, locally applied antibiotics, and minimally-invasive fracture surgery. Over the past year, Dr. Miclau has been invited to conferences in Havana, Cuba; Davos, Switzerland; and Ottawa, Canada, and to participate in a NASA musculoskeletal summit in Houston, Texas.
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