Jason Koh is the Mark R. Neaman Family Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery and Director of the Orthopaedic and Spine Institute specialty hospital at Endeavor Health, a USNWR-ranked orthopaedic program, and Clinical Professor at the University of Chicago. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard, he received his MD from Johns Hopkins, followed by internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, residency at the Hospital for Special Surgery, and fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. He received his MBA from Northwestern University. A specialist in sports medicine and shoulder surgery, he is currently the chief medical officer for the Chicago Fire Major League Soccer team, has been team physician for the Chicago Cubs, and medical director of the Joffrey Ballet. His peers have voted him “Top Doctor” and elected him to the AOA, the ACL Study Group, the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES), the International Patellofemoral Study Group, the Herodicus Society, and the American Bone and Joint Surgeons. His NIH-funded research involves tissue engineering and regenerative medicine for cartilage, rotator cuff and ligament repair. He has won the Richard O’Connor award from the Arthroscopy Association, and has twice won the Charles Neer award from the ASES. He has received numerous honors, including the John Harvard Scholarship, the AOA North American Traveling Fellowship, the AAOS Leadership Fellowship, and the James Stack MD Teaching Award from Northwestern University. He has lectured and presented on six continents. Dr. Koh is internationally recognized as a teacher and course chair, and has published more than 200 papers, chapters and books. He has served as a board member and committee chair of multiple organizations.
Dr. Koh has had a deep interest in the patellofemoral joint for several decades, which prompted him to undertake the first Patellofemoral Foundation Traveling Fellowship, visiting international centers of excellence. He has continued to pursue clinical and basic science research in the patellofemoral joint, and has made numerous presentations and published multiple articles and chapters on the subject. Dr. Koh has helped develop numerous consensus statements on the patellofemoral joint, and is a founding member of the JUPITER multicenter study. He is currently vice-president of the Patellofemoral Foundation, and Treasurer of the International Patellofemoral Study Group, for whom he has previously hosted their biannual meeting. Recently, he published with ISAKOS the first International case-based book on the patellofemoral joint (The Patellofemoral Joint, A Case Based Approach, Springer 2022). He cares deeply about helping patients with their patellofemoral problems and is happiest when he can restore someone to normal full activity.