Peter J. Millet, MD, MSc
Director of Shoulder Surgery
Steadman Clinic
Vail, CO, USA
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Dr. Peter J. Millett is an internationally recognized orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist who focuses on disorders of the shoulder, knee, and elbow. He is Director of Shoulder Surgery at the Steadman Clinic and serves as Chief Medical Officer of the Steadman Philippon Research Institute. He has been consistently selected as one of the “Best Doctors in America” and has been ranked in the top 1% of Orthopaedic Surgeons by U.S. News & World Reports.
Dr. Millett has treated elite athletes from the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, PGA, Formula One, X-Games, and the Olympics. Board Certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, Dr. Millett is also a member of numerous academic societies including the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, the Orthopaedic Research Society, the Arthroscopy Association of North America, the Herodicus Society, and the German Arthroscopy Association (AGA). Dr. Millett has chaired the Neer Circle, is a member of the Sports Council, and serves on the advisory board of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Dr. Millett previously held a faculty appointment at Harvard Medical School and was Co-Director of the Harvard Shoulder Service and the Harvard Shoulder Fellowship. While in Boston, he also founded and directed the Musculoskeletal Proteomics Research Group at Harvard, where his team discovered and patented the protein profile for osteoarthritis. His clinical practice in Boston was based at Brigham & Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals.
Dr. Millett has authored over 350 peer-reviewed, scientific articles, numerous book chapters, and 4 books on Orthopedics, Sports Medicine, and Shoulder Surgery. His academic work has been recognized with awards from several international societies, including multiple Achievement Awards from the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. He has trained over 100 US and international orthopaedic surgeons and has been honored with the Outstanding Teacher Award from the fellows of the Steadman Clinic and Steadman Philippon Research Institute.
Dr. Millett helped pioneer a number of orthopaedic procedures. He is known for labral repair surgery and bone graft (Latarjet) procedures in elite athletes and is acknowledged as a pioneer and inventor of treatments for advanced and complex rotator cuff tears, such as the linked, bridging, double row repair technique that is now among the most commonly used surgical methods to repair torn rotator cuff tendons worldwide. He also developed an advanced arthroscopic shoulder surgery known as the Comprehensive Arthroscopic Management (CAM) procedure to treat young, active patients with osteoarthritis to delay shoulder replacement. As an inventor, Dr. Millett has over 24 issued patents, more than 60 patent filings of his original inventions, and has developed over 100 medical devices and products that are used to help patients around the world every day.
Dr. Millett serves as Medical Director for Ski and Snowboard Club Vail. He has served as a team physician for the United States Ski & Snowboard Association and as a consultant to the Montreal Canadiens, professional hockey club. He is currently a consultant to the NHL Players Association and the MLB Players Association. He served as Chair of the Research Committee for the Arthroscopy Association of North America and as Chair of the Education Committee of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons. He serves on the board of overseers and the scientific advisory board of the Steadman Philippon Research Institute. He is an Ambassador and Board Member elect for the US Ski & Snowboard Team. He is a board member of the Vail Health Foundation and the Eagle Valley Behavioral Health Initiative. Dr. Millett is a member of the Visionary Research Society of the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation. Dr. Millett also works or has worked as a consultant to a number of medical device, pharmaceutical, and medical education companies including Arthrex, Myos, Ivy, Game Ready, VuMedi, and Joint Preservation Innovations to help advance the treatment of orthopaedic and sports medicine disorders. He was a founding partner of Pivot Medical, an innovative sports medicine company, which was acquired by Stryker.
A native of Pennsylvania, Dr. Millett received his undergraduate degree from the University of Scranton, in Scranton, Pennsylvania and his medical degree from The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (formerly Dartmouth Medical School) in Hanover, New Hampshire. He also studied as a research scholar at the University of Cambridge in England, where he was awarded a master’s degree in science (M.Sc.) for his work in skeletal biology. His work focused on molecular mechanisms of pathologic bone loss and its prevention.
Dr. Millett performed his orthopaedic residency training at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, part of Cornell University’s Medical School. While there, research he co-authored twice received the Lewis Clark Wagner Award for excellence in orthopaedic research. He also won the American Orthopaedic Association – Zimmer Travel Award, a national award for orthopaedic research. Dr. Millett performed additional subspecialty, fellowship training in sports medicine, knee and shoulder surgery with Drs. Richard Steadman and Richard Hawkins in Vail, Colorado. As a fellow, Dr. Millett served as an associate physician for the Denver Broncos and the Colorado Rockies.
Dr. Millett and his wife have four children and are very active philanthropically supporting the Vail Valley Foundation, Vail Health, the Steadman Philippon Research Institute and St. Clare of Assisi Catholic Church and School. An avid outdoorsman, Dr. Millett also enjoys skiing, cycling, and fly fishing. Dr. Millett supports a number of conservation foundations and has served as a board member of the American Museum of Fly Fishing.
Selected Other Published Work
Arner JW, Nolte P-C, Ruzbarsky JJ, Millet PJ, et al. Correlation of Acromial Morphology With Risk and Direction of Shoulder Instability: An MRI Study. The American Journal of Sports Medicine. 2023;51(12):3211-3216. doi:10.1177/03635465231197661
Waltz RA, Brown J, Brady AW, Millet PJ, et al. Biomechanical Evaluation of Posterior Shoulder Instability With a Clinically Relevant Posterior Glenoid Bone Loss Model. The American Journal of Sports Medicine. 2023;51(9):2443-2453. doi:10.1177/03635465231177957
Dey Hazra R-O, Dey Hazra ME, Hanson JA, Millet PJ, et al. Minimum 10-Year Outcomes After Arthroscopic Repair of Partial-Thickness Supraspinatus Rotator Cuff Tears. The American Journal of Sports Medicine. 2023;51(9):2404-2410. doi:10.1177/03635465231176557
Dey Hazra R-O, Dey Hazra ME, Hanson JA, Millet PJ, et al. Minimum 5-Year Clinical Outcomes of Arthroscopically Repaired Massive Rotator Cuff Tears: Effect of Age on Clinical Outcomes. The American Journal of Sports Medicine. 2023;51(8):1979-1987. doi:10.1177/03635465231174430
Hoang LQ, Vaish B, Izuagbe S, Millet PJ, et al. Histological Analysis of Regenerative Properties in Human Glenoid Labral Regions. The American Journal of Sports Medicine. 2023;51(8):2030-2040. doi:10.1177/03635465231171680
Foster MJ, Hanson JA, Dornan GJ, Millet PJ, et al. Use of Computed Tomography in the Evaluation of Anterior Shoulder Instability: Possible Effect on Surgical Management. The American Journal of Sports Medicine. 2023;51(6):1588-1595. doi:10.1177/03635465231163148
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