EDUCATION                                                                                                                                   

2004-2005                    Anderson Orthopaedic Research Institute.

                                    Fellowship in Total Joint Arthroplasty

                                    Alexandria, Virginia

2000-2004                    Loma Linda University Orthopaedic Residency.

                                    Loma Linda, California

1999-2000                    Loma Linda University General Surgery Internship.

                                    Loma Linda, California

1995-1999                    Loma Linda University School of Medicine.

                                    M.D.

                                    Loma Linda, California

1991-1995                    Walla Walla College.

                                    B.S. Chemistry, cum laude.

                                    College Place, Washington

HOSPITAL LEADERSHIP                                                                                                           

2021- Present                Board of Directors – Avista Adventist Hospital

2019                             Orthopedic Medical Director – Lutheran Hospital

                                    -Physician behavior, Trauma Liaison

2019                             Centura Health System - 2025 Strategy Committee

2017                             Chief Executive Officer Selection Committee – Avista Adventist Hospital

2012 - Present               Medical Director – Joint Replacement at Avista Adventist Hospital

                                    -Assisted in JCAHO certification

                                    -Developed Joint Pathway

2011 - 2012                  Chairman – Department of Orthopedics Lutheran Hospital

2009 - 2014                  Clinical Operations Council Charter - Lutheran Hospital

                                    Hospital strategic planning physician committee

2009 - 2012                  Medical Executive Committee – Avista Adventist Hospital

2009 - 2010                  Vice Chairman – Department of Orthopedics Lutheran Hospital

2007                             Chief Operating Officer Selection Committee – Lutheran Hospital

2006 - 2011                  Medical Director- Joint replacement services at Lutheran Hospital

                                    -Assisted in JCAHO certification for joint replacement and hip fractures

                                    -Served as an advisor to Materials Management on new Technology

BUSINESS LEADERSHIP                                                                                                            

2019- 2021                   Board of Directors - Management Service Organization Optum/OCC

                                    Business strategy planning, contracting strategy

2019                             Board of Directors - Orthopedic Centers of Colorado

Negotiated better rates with United Health Care for OCC employees

2018- Present                Cornerstone Ortho Bundles, LLC – Created, contracted, and directed physician controlled bundles

2015 – 2016                  President and Founder – ASC Joint and Spine

                                    Consulting for ASCs wishing to start outpatient joint programs

2015 - Present               Chairman Finance Committee - Boulder SDA Church

                                    Led church financial discussions, strategy, budgeting

2016 - 2018                  Scientific Medical Advisory Board Global – B. Braun/Aesculap

2015 - 2017                  Scientific Medical Advisory Board USA - Aesculap

2013                             Contracting –Cornerstone Orthopedics & Sports Medicine

 Developed unique payment model for joint replacement with United Health Care and Blue Cross Blue shield to compensate additional work associated with ASC joint replacement.

2012, 2016-2019           President – Cornerstone Orthopedics & Sports Medicine

                                    Chairman of the board, dealt with physician behavior, strategy, operations of                                         orthopedic surgery group, negotiations with private equity and strategy planning,                            negotiations with OCC acquisition of Cornerstone Orthopedics.

2011 - 2022                  Medical Director - Colorado Health Connections, Home Health Company

                                    Assisted with strategy, paperwork compliance

2011                             Physician Advisor -Humana Insurance Company

2011                             Scientific Medical Advisory Board - Angiotech

2010                             Physician Advisor - Pinnacol Assurance Insurance Company

2010 - 2014                  Board of Directors – American Association of Surgical Distributors

2009 - 2016                  Clinical Director of Joint Replacement Product Development- Renovis Surgical Technologies

2009 – 2012, 2015         Board of Directors – Cornerstone Orthopedics & Sports Medicine

2007 -2013                   Manager and Founding Partner, Mesa Surgical, LLC – Physician Owned                                     Distributorship. Retail sales of joint replacements, spine, and                                                                         trauma products, contract negotiations with implant companies and hospitals

                                    Operating and managing an implant distributorship

2010-2011                    Managing and Founding Partner, Rocky Mountain Trauma, LLC –                                                             Physician Owned Distributorship – contract negotiations, managed implant                                      distributorship

CONSULTING                                                                                                                               

2020                             Aesculap – Speaker at National Sales Meeting on Revision TKA

2020                             SPDx – Instrument Sterilization Offsight

2019                             Kyocera – Post-market Surveillance T3 Acetabular Cup

2017-2018                    Imagen – Augmented Reality in Total knee Arthroplasty and Implant design

2014                             Ossur – marketplace and growth opportunities

2011 - 2012                  CRG Coleman – Executive Forum

2010 - 2013                  Angiotech/Specialty Surgical – Speakers bureau Quill Suture

2010                             Sisters of Charity Leavenworth Hospital System - Implant contracting

2009 - 2013                  Aesculap - Unicondylar knee arthroplasty instrumentation design, product workshop surgeon instructor and presenter, outpatient joint program

2008 - 2015                  Renovis - Instrumentation design cannulated screws, implant and instrumentation design total hip, implant and instrument design total knee

2006 - 2007                  Medtronics - Computer assisted surgery

2006                             Ethicon/Johnson & Johnson –Harmonic scalpel

2005 - 2009                  MedaCorp – Marketplace surveys

POLITICAL ACTION                                                                                                                 

2011                             Senate Finance Committee Testimony – Voluntary Meeting on Physician Owned Distribution

ACADEMICS                                                                                                                                

2014-2015                    AAOS Moderator – Paper sessions on Knee outcomes and economics

2013-2016                    AAOS Adult Reconstruction Knee Program Committee

2009, 14, 15                  Critical Evaluator AAOS - Instructional Course Lectures

1. 2006. Resident Training and Trauma call coverage University of Colorado

1. 2005. Assistant Reviewer – Journal of Arthroplasty, wrote up reviews for Gerald Engh, MD and discussed paper validity in each case.

2004 - 2008                  Reviewer – Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

2004                             Resident Selection Committee, Loma Linda University

ROYALTY AGREEMENTS                                                                                                        

Kyocera – Total knee arthroplasty, Total hip arthroplasty, cannulated screws, and External Fixator, Revision total hip, Revision total knee

                                    Innomed - Suction device, Revision knee instruments, Bariatric hip retractors

HONORS AND AWARDS                                                                                                           

2014                             Beckers Top 101 Physician Leaders to know in the ASC industry

2013                             Pear Performers Award team based care, professionalism, and clinical                                                 excellence

1996                             Medical Student Research Scholarship

1995-1999                    WICHE Scholarship (Montana State)

1995                             Honors in Biochemistry

1995                             Armed Forces Institute of Pathology – Infectious Disease Pathology Scholarship

PUBLICATIONS                                                                                                                          

Steinmann J, Edwards C, Eickmann T, Carlson A, Blight A.  Surgeon Ownership in Medical Device Distribution: Does it actually reduce healthcare costs.  Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research.  Volume 15, Issue 6, 2015.

Eickmann T, Quane E.  “Total Knee Arthroplasty Closure with Barbed Sutures.”  The Journal of Knee Surgery, Vol 23, Number 3, pages 163-167. 2010.

Collier MB, Eickmann TH, Anbari KK, Engh GA.  “Lateral Tibiofemoral Compartment Narrowing after Medial Unicondylar Arthroplasty.”  Clin Orthop Rel Res, Sept 13, 2007.

Collier MB, Eickmann TH, Sukezaki F, McAuley JP, Engh GA.  “Patient, implant, and alignment factors associated with revision of medial compartment unicondylar arthroplasty.”  J Arthroplasty, Sept; 21(6 Suppl 2): 108-115, 2006.

Eickmann TH, Collier MB, Sukezaki F, McAuley JP, Engh GA.  “Survival of Medial Unicondylar Arthroplasties Placed by One Surgeon 1984-1988.” Clin Orthop Rel Res, Vol 452, pp 143-149, 2006.

McAuley J, Eickmann T:  “Picking Your Implant.”  Insall and Scott, Surgery of the Knee, Fourth Edition, Chapter 13, Section 3, 2005. 

Eickmann T, Clarke I, Gustafson G:  “Squeaking in a Ceramic on Ceramic Total Hip.”  Bioceramics in Joint Arthroplasty.  Proceedings 8th International Biolox Symposium, 2003.

Eickmann T, Manaka M, Clarke I, et al:  “Squeaking and Neck-Socket Impingement in a Ceramic Total Hip Arthroplasty.” Bioceramics 15, 849, 2002.

                                    Kirsch WM, et al., Eickmann T, et al:  “Comparison of Arcuate-Legged                                     Non-Penetrating Titanium Clips and Silk Suture for Dural Closure.”                                                          Journal of Neurosurgery, Vol 45, No. 4, 875, Oct 1999.

SURGICAL SKILLS TRAINER                                                                                                    

2013                            Excia Hip and Columbus Knee Aesculap Cadaver Training

                                    San Juan, Puerto Rico.  February 2013.

PODIUM PRESENTATIONS                                                                                                                  

Eickmann TH:  “The nuts and Bolts of Same Day Total Joints – Make it safe”.  Colorado Orthopedic Society, Denver August 2017

Eickmann TH:  “Outpatient ASC TKA”.  Engh Society Meeting, Cancun, Mexico Feb 2017.

Eickmann TH: “Outpatient ASC TKA”.  Engh Society Meeting, Alexandria, VA April 2016.

Eickmann TH: “Poor Outlook for PODs.” Engh Society Meeting, Cancun, Mexico January 2015.

Eickmann TH: “Negotiating Better Contracts.” Engh Society Meeting, Cancun, Mexico January 2015.

Eickmann TH:  “Advances in Operative Joint Replacement.”  A CME presentation for primary care.   Lutheran Medical Center, Wheat Ridge, CO February 22, 2014.

Eickmann TH:  “ASC Joint Replacement.”  St. Thomas, USVI, February 2013.

Eickmann TH:  “Physician Owned Distribution”. St. Thomas, USVI, February 2013.

Eickmann TH: “ASC Joint Replacement.”  Lutheran Surgery Center, Wheat Ridge, CO November, 2012.

Eickmann TH: “Avista Joint Program: From not Good to Great.  Bundled Payment potential?”  Integrated physician Network meeting, Lafayette, CO August 7, 2012.

Eickmann TH: “Quill SRS redefining wound closure” Current Concepts in Joint Replacement, Palm Springs Nov 11, 2011

Eickmann TH: “Quill SRS redefining wound closure” A CME presentation presented Houston, TX May 12, 2011.

Eickmann TH: “Quill SRS redefining wound closure” Presented at Flemings Rancho Cucamunga, CA April 21, 2011.

Eickmann TH:  “Managing Osteoarthritis in the Work Compensation patient.”  Presented at Welshire Inn, March 10, 2011.

Eickmann TH:  “Physician Owned Distribution.”  St. Thomas, USVI, February 2011.

Eickmann TH: “Quill SRS redefining wound closure” Presented at La Griglia Houston, TX September 16, 2010.

Eickmann TH: “Quill SRS redefining wound closure” Presented at Citizen Hotel, Sacramento, CA August, 2010.

Eickmann TH:  “Advances in Treating Knee and Hip Pain” Presented at Avista Adventist Hospital, Louisville, CO February 12, 2009.

Eickmann TH:  “Do I need a new hip or knee?” Presented at Lutheran Medical Center, Wheat Ridge, CO January 15, 2009.

Eickmann TH:   “Achy Arthritis.” Presented at Lutheran Medical Center, Wheat Ridge, CO October 30, 2008.

Eickmann TH:   “A Leg Up on Knee and Hip Arthritis.” Presented at Avista Adventist Hospital, Louisville, CO October 23, 2008.

Eickmann TH:  “What’s new in Joint Replacement.”  Presented at Avista Adventist Hospital, Louisville, CO October 22, 2007.

Eickmann TH: “New Technology of Joint Replacement.”  Presented for Noon CME Conference at Lutheran Medical Center, Wheat Ridge, CO April 24, 2007.

Eickmann TH: “Technology and Joint Replacement.”  Presented at Lutheran Medical Center, Wheat Ridge, Colorado February 8, 2007.

Eickmann TH: “Restoring the Joy of Motion.”  Presented at the Westin Hotel Westminster Colorado, Sponsored by Depuy J &J, December 12, 2006.

Eickmann TH: “Hip and Knee Pain in the Active Adult.”  Presented at the Westin Hotel Westminster Colorado, as a continuing education seminar for primary care physicians, November 21, 2006.

Engh GA, Collier MB, Eickmann TH, Anbari KK:  “Radiographic Narrowing Of The Lateral Compartment At 10 to 18 Years After Medial Unicondylar Arthroplasty:  Has the Role of Knee Alignment Been Overstated?”  Presented at the Knee Society Meeting, September 30, 2006.

Eickmann TH, Collier MB, Sukayaki F, McAuley JP, Engh GA: “Factors Associated with Revision of Medial Compartment Unicondylar Arthroplasty: A Single-Center Study of 443 Knees Replaced between 1984 and 1998.”   Presented at AAOS March 24, 2006.

Collier MB, Eickmann TH, McAuley JP, Engh GA:  “Radiographic analysis of alignment of medial unicondylar arthroplasties and its influence on survival: cases performed from 1988-1998.”  Presented at AAHKS.

Engh GA, Eickmann TH, Collier MB, Sukayaki F, McAuley JP: “Factors Associated with Revision of Medial Compartment Unicondylar Arthroplasty: A Single-Center Study of 443 Knees Replaced between 1984 and 1998.”  Presented at the Knee Society Interim Meeting, September 9, 2005.

Eickmann T, Collier M, Sukezaki F, McAuley J, Engh G:  “Factors Influencing Survival of Medial Unicondylar Arthroplasties.”  Presented at the Engh Society Fellowship Seminar, Alexandria, VA February 22, 2005.

Eickmann T: “Squeaking Total Hips Past, Present, and Future.”  Presented at the 12^th Annual Orthopaedic Research Seminar, Loma Linda, CA May 14, 2004.

Eickmann T, Green D, Donaldson T, et al: “Front and Backside Wear in Hylamer Liners.”   Presented at the 12^th Annual Orthopaedic Research Seminar, Loma Linda, CA, May 13, 2004.

                                    Eickmann T, Green D, Donaldson T, et al:  “Backside Wear in Retrieved                                              Hylamer Liners.” Presented at The 16th Annual Symposium of the                                                        International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty, San Francisco, CA,                                          September 24-27, 2003.                        

                                    Eickmann T, Green D, Donaldson T, Clarke I:  “Backside Wear of Hylamer                                               Liners in Duraloc Cups.”  Presented at 11th Annual Orthopaedic Research                                       Seminar, Loma Linda, CA, May 16, 2003.

Eickmann T, Gustafson A, Clarke I:  “Squeaking and Metallosis in a Ceramic on Ceramic Hip Arthroplasty.”  Presented at Current Issues in Orthopedics, Mammoth Lakes, CA, September 12-14, 2002.                         

                                    Eickmann T, Donaldson T, Green D, Clarke I:  “Mechanisms of Backside                                               Wear in Hylamer Liners.”  Presented at Current Issues in Orthopaedics,                                                           Mammoth Lakes, CA, September 12-14, 2002.

                                    Eickmann T, Hopkins G, Donaldson T, Clarke I:  “Alarming Wear of Hylamer                                               Liners in a Low Demand Elderly Population.”  Presented at Current Issues in                                       Orthopaedics, Mammoth Lakes, CA, Sept.12-14, 2002.         

                                    Gustafson A, Clarke I, Eickmann T:  “Squeaking Ceramic on Ceramic Total                                        Hip Replacement.”  Presented at Masters Series in Ceramic Hip Arthroplasty,                                              Costa Mesa, CA, August 30, 2002.

Kirsch WM, et al., Eickmann T, et al:  “Facilitated Vascular Anastomosis:  The Non-Penetrating Arcuate-Legged Clip.”  Presented at Harvard Medical School, 1996.

POSTER  PRESENTATIONS                                                                                                    

Engh G, Collier M, Eickmann T:  “Lateral Compartment Radiographic Narrowing after Medial Unicondylar Arthroplasty.”  Presented at AAHKS meeting Dallas, 2006.

Collier M, Eickmann T, Engh G:  “Radiographic Assessment of the Lateral Compartment with a Minimum of 10 Years follow-up after Medial Unicompartmental Knee Arthoplasty.”  Presented at AAOS March 22-24, 2006.

Eickmann T, Green D, Donaldson T, Clark I:  “Pistoning and Rotation as mechanisms of Backside Wear in Retrieved Hylamer Liners.”   Presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, San Francisco, CA, March 7-10, 2004.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS                                                                                                       

Kirsch WM, et al:  Contributors: Steckel D, et al., Eickmann T, et al.: “Vascular Reconstructions with Non-Penetrating Arcuate-Legged Clips.” Techniques in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. Yao JST, Pearce WH. Eds. chapter 6, Appleton and Lange 1998.

PERIODICALS                                                                                                                               

Eickmann T:  “Common Myths about Joint Replacement.”  Neighborhood Gazette, March, 2014.

Featured in Vigor Magazine, Winter 2008

Eickmann T:  Ask the Experts “Two orthopedic surgeons answer your spine and joint questions.”  Vigor Magazine Summer 2007.

Stephanie Phillips:  “New Bodies” quoted Thomas Eickmann in the article as an expert.  Boulder Valley MD Medical & Wellness Directory 2006.

BOARD STATUS                                                                                                                      

2007-2027                    Board Certified/ Recertified 2016

LICENSURE                                                                                                                             

2005-present                 Colorado Medical License – 43506, begin 4/19/2005

2001-present                 D.E.A. License – BE7334977

MEMBERSHIP                                                                                                                        

Fellow of American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery

                                    Fellow American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons

Engh Society               

            President 2015-2017

Colorado Medical Society

            Delegate 2011

Society of Physician Entrepreneurs

Colorado Orthopedic Society

            Council on Legisl