Annual Meeting Faculty Details

Michael T Freehill, MD

Stanford University School of Medicine
Redwood City, CA UNITED STATES

Michael T. Freehill, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Chief of the Shoulder & Elbow Service at the Stanford University School of Medicine. His clinical practice includes all disorders of the shoulder including; rotator cuff and shoulder instability, shoulder arthritis, and complex shoulder pathology. He additionally is passionate about all throwing-related elbow and shoulder injuries. Dr. Freehill graduated Magna Cum Laude from University of San Diego, where he also played college baseball. After graduation, he was drafted as a pitcher by the California Angels, played 7 years of professional baseball with two years on the Major League 40-Man Roster. Following a shoulder surgery, he signed with the Texas Rangers and again reached the Triple-A level. Following his professional baseball career, Dr. Freehill pursued his medical doctorate at Tulane University School of Medicine. During his orthopaedic residency at Johns Hopkins University, he was honored with the Orthopaedic Residency Research Award. He then went on to pursue fellowships in both Sports Medicine from Stanford University and Shoulder and Elbow Surgery from the Harvard University Shoulder Service. Dr. Freehill spent 4 ½ years at Wake Forest University, where he was named Director of Sports Medicine, head team physician, and was instrumental in initiating the building of the Wake Forest Pitching Lab, before joining the University of Michigan as an Associate Professor where he spent three years and was a team physician for University of Michigan Athletics, head team physician for Eastern Michigan University baseball, and a team physician for the Detroit Tigers. Dr. Freehill has been funded by Major League Baseball to study pitch counts and intensities in youth baseball players, is a member of the Major League Baseball Team Physician Association and its Executive Board, and is a member of the Major League Baseball Research Committee. Dr. Freehill has been elected for two prestigious traveling fellowships; the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine to the Pacific rim-Asia and the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons to Europe, and is a Neer Award winning author. Dr. Freehill is the Executive Director of the Stanford Baseball Science Core. He serves as a team physician for Stanford Athletics and head team physician for Stanford baseball. Additionally, he is the head team physician for the A’s Major League Baseball organization.

6/4/2025 11:17 - 11:23

Pitter 1-2

Session 5: Shoulder - Instability Lecture Hand Size Association with Baseball Pitch Velocity and Spin Rate Characteristics Faculty