Annual Meeting Faculty Details

Grant L Jones, MD

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Columbus, Ohio UNITED STATES

Grant Jones, MD is a Professor in The Ohio State University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and is in his 24nd year as a Team Physician for the Ohio State University Department of Athletics. He serves as the Head Team Physician for OSU's basketball team and an orthopaedic consultant for OSU's other varsity teams. He has also been the Head Team Physician for the Columbus Clippers (Triple-A Affiliate of the Cleveland Indians) since 2009 and Team Physician for the Columbus Destroyers (Arena League Football) in 2019. Furthermore, he has been the Head Team Physician for the Upper Arlington Public School System since 2014. He is a native of Upper Arlington, Ohio and graduated from Upper Arlington High School as class valedictorian in 1984. Next, he graduated from Denison University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1988. He was class valedictorian at Denison and was a team captain for the Denison football squad and team MVP in 1987. He was the Woody Hayes National Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 1987 and the GTE NCAA Academic All-American Player- of- the- Year-Football/College Division in 1987. He was an All-North Coast Athletic Conference performer in 1986 and ’87 as a defensive back. Time Magazine selected me for its Achievement Award as one of the Top 20 College students in the nation in 1987. In 2014, he was inducted into the Denison University Athletic Hall-of-Fame. And, in 2015, he was inducted into the Capitol One/ CoSida NCAA Academic All-American Hall-of-Fame for all sports. Recently, in July of 2021, he was inducted into the Upper Arlington High School Athletic Hall-of-Fame. He earned my medical doctorate from The Ohio State College of Medicine in 1992, graduating with Honors and completed my Orthopaedic Surgery Residency at The Ohio State University in 1997. He then completed my Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowship at the Hughston Clinic in Georgia in 1997-1998. From 2007 to the present, he has been named annually as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor in America and selected as Best Doctors in America, by his peers. Annually, he has achieved Top 10% Patient Satisfaction nationally. In 2007, he was awarded the Ohio Athletic Trainers Association Team Physician of the Year Award. In 2008, he participated in the AOSSM Traveling Fellowship to South America (one of four American orthopedic surgeons selected to travel and give lectures). He has also been awarded two Neer Awards (2011 and 2013) which are given annually to the authors of the top international research papers in shoulder and elbow surgery. He has served on multiple AOSSM committees, including two stints on both the Traveling Fellowship and Publications Committees. He is also a reviewer for multiple journals including CORR, AJSM, JBJS, JSES, and OJSM, and he serves as the Editor of AOSSM’s Sports Medicine Update. He is a member of the Magellan Society, an international group consisting of the top sports medicine orthopaedic surgeons in the world and was chosen as the North American (AOSSM) representative to the Board of Directors for the Society and President Elect in 2018. In 2021, he began my two year term as President of the Magellan Society. In 2018, he was selected for the Herodicus Society, another prestigious, select international group of orthopaedic sports medicine physicians. In 2019, he was selected as Chairman of the Publications Committee for AOSSM; and in this role as chairman, he serves on the Board of Directors for AOSSM as the Communications Council Chair. Furthermore, he was elected to the AOSSM Council of Delegates in 2019. He has been selected as an Elite Reviewer for JBJS and selected as a member of the AJSM and VJSM Editorial Board. He regularly speaks nationally and internationally, including multiple trips to South America, Europe and Japan, and he frequently hosts orthopaedic sports medicine physicians from South America at The Ohio State University Jameson Crane Sports Medicine Institute. Furthermore, he is a founding member of the MOON (Multi-Center Outcomes Network) Shoulder Group, which is a multi-center collaboration producing some of the top research in the field of Shoulder Surgery, and he is an investigator in the Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair Trial (ARC Trial), which will be the largest randomized trial ever performed in Orthopaedic Surgery when it is completed. Also, he was involved in a recently concluded patient blinded, randomized multi-center study on a novel device, InSpace, for the treatment of irreparable rotator cuff tears. Based on the positive findings of the investigation, the FDA, in July of 2021, just approved it for use in the United States. Finally, he has published over 100 peer reviewed journal articles, have written 12 book chapters, and have been an author on over 100 peer reviewed national and international meeting poster and podium presentations. He presently lives in Upper Arlington, OH with his wife of 17 years, Jamie, and children, Hudson (16 years old) and Evelyn (14 years old), and he remains actively involved in the local community in fund raising events. In his spare time, he enjoys extreme skiing and mountain biking. He has completed the Leadville (CO) 100 Mile Mountain Bike Race twice (2019 and 2021), which is widely regarded as the top and most grueling mountain bike race in North America, as well as the Whiteface Mountain/ Wilmington (Lake Place, NY) 100 K mountain bike race multiple times.