Dr. Douglas R. Stringham, MD

Dr. Douglas Stringham practices General Orthopedic surgery with specialization in the treatment of sports injuries, fractures, and cartilage defects. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and he is a member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. Dr. Stringham graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He attended medical school at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.After graduating from medical school he moved to Tampa, Florida to complete a General Surgery Internship at the University of South Florida. Dr. Stringham remained at the University of South Florida to begin an Orthopedic Surgery Residency before moving to Tucson, Arizona to complete his orthopedic residency at the University of Arizona.Because of interest in sports injuries, Dr. Stringham returned to the University of Utah to complete a Sports Medicine Fellowship in Orthopedic Surgery. During this fellowship he was involved in the orthopedic care of a …wide variety of athletic injuries in national-caliber athletes from football and basketball players to gymnasts and ballerinas. Also, during the ski season he was the weekend physician at one of the major ski resorts outside of Salt Lake City.After returning to Florida, Dr. Stringham traveled to Sweden to learn an innovative technique for the treatment of cartilage injuries from the pioneer of that procedure. Dr. Stringham was the first orthopedic surgeon in Florida to perform Carticel Surgery. Carticel Surgery is a technique in which articular cartilage injuries in the knee are repaired by reimplanting the patient’s own cartilage cells that have been grown in culture.Dr. Stringham is certified by the Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation. He has lectured across the nation on many orthopedic topics and he has authored notable research articles that have been published in peer-reviewed medical journals.Dr. Stringham enjoys a wide variety of sports including water skiing, downhill skiing, mountain biking, and rollerblading. Having lived in Spain for two years, Dr. Stringham is fluent in Spanish and thus better able to care for the significant Spanish-speaking population in South Florida.

• Memorial Hospital Pembroke

Orthopaedic Center Of South Florida

7171 N University Dr Ste 100

Tamarac

FL

33321

USA

+18005567846

• Sports Medicine
• Orthopedic Surgery
• Orthopaedic Trauma

• Occupational Therapy Evaluation
• Hip/Femur Fractures and Dislocations
• Knee Arthroscopy
• Arthroscopic Shoulder Surgery
• Physical Therapy
• Lower Arm/Elbow/Wrist Fractures and Dislocations
• Hip Replacement

• Accepts Medicaid
• UHC Compass HMO
• UHC Navigate HMO
• AvMed Empower
• Avmed Choice
• Aetna HMO
• UHC Options PPO
• Humana ChoiceCare Network PPO
• CIGNA Open Access Plus
• CIGNA LocalPlus
• Florida Blue BlueOptions
• Aetna Managed Choice POS Open Access
• Humana National POS
• AvMed Engage
• Neighborhood Health Partnership Commercial
• Humana Choice POS
• Florida Blue BlueCare HMO
• Humana HMO Select
• CIGNA PPO
• Coventry FL Employer Group PPO
• Coventry FL Employer Group HMO Open Access
• Humana HMO
• PHCS PPO
• Aetna Signature Administrators PPO
• UHC Choice Plus POS
• Humana HMO Premier
• Humana Preferred PPO
• UHC Navigate POS
• Aetna Choice POS II
• BCBS Florida myBlue
• BCBS Blue Card PPO
• Multiplan PPO
• Most Insurance Plans Accepted
• Florida Blue BlueSelect
• Molina Mrktplace FL
• Aexcel PPO
• BCBS FL Blue Choice
• Florida Blue SimplyBlue
• MEDICA CHOICE WITH UNITEDHEALTHC
• Oscar Insurance FL
• UHC NAVIGATE PLUS POS
• UHC Nexus Open Access
• Aetna Elect Choice EPO Open Access
• Aetna Innovation Health Aetna Premier Care Network Plus
• Aetna Open Choice PPO
• AvMed Choice POS - Large Group
• AvMed Empower - Small Employer Groups (1-50)
• AvMed Engage - Small Employer Groups (1-50)
• AvMed Engage HMO (large group)
• AvMed Focus - Small Employer Groups
• BCBS FL Blue BlueCare HMO
• BCBS FL Blue BlueOptions
• BCBS FL Blue BlueSelect
• BCBS FL Blue SimplyBlue
• BCBS FL myBlue
• BCBS FL Preferred Patient Care PPO
• BCBSA Blue Card High Performance Network
• Bright Health Plan Individual & Family
• Cigna Connect - FL
• Cigna SureFit South Florida
• Humana / ChoiceCare Network PPO
• Humana/ChoiceCare+ Network PPO
• Medica Choice With UHC
• Molina Marketplace FL
• Oscar EPO FL
• AvMed Health Individual Market Place Entrust Plans

• Fractures
• Dislocations
• Derangement
• and Sprains
• Internal Derangement of Knee Cartilage
• Lateral Epicondylitis
• Rotator cuff syndrome
• Plantar Fasciitis
• Osteoarthritis
• Internal Derangement of Knee
• Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
• Spinal Stenosis