Meet our Physician

Gustavo Garcia, MD

Board Certification

• Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon

Education

• Undergraduate:
  Columbia University, New York City
  B.S., Chemical Engineering
• Medical School:
  Keck School of Medicine
  University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USC)
• Orthopedic Surgery Residency:
  University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) – Fresno Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program
• Fellowship Foot and Ankle Surgery Training:
  Desert Orthopedic Center (DOC) Foot and Ankle Fellowship Program, Las Vegas, Nevada

Dr. Garcia is an orthopedic surgeon who has obtained his medical and surgical training at the best universities and programs in the world. He is an Ivy League graduate who earned his bachelor of science from Columbia University, New York City, majoring in chemical engineering. After graduating from Columbia, Dr. Garcia continued to live in Manhattan to manage a molecular biology lab in Mount Sinai Hospital, NYC. He worked as a researcher and lab manager for several years before deciding to move to the west coast, where he completed medical school at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USC), Keck School of Medicine. He then completed his orthopedic surgery training at the UCSF- Fresno Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program, and additional fellowship subspecialty training, in foot and ankle surgery, at Desert Orthopedic Center in Las Vegas.

Dr. Garcia’s special interest are in total joint replacement, extremity trauma, fractures, shoulder/knee/ ankle arthroscopy, arthritic pain, and all conditions of the foot and ankle.

An outdoorsman at heart, Dr. Garcia moved to Juneau to take advantage of the all the amazing hiking, boating and adventures offered. His other interests include strength training, botany, yoga, and meditation.

Surgeries Performed

• General Orthopedics
• Total hip/knee/replacement
• Trauma and extremity fracture care
• Arthroscopic procedures (rotator cuff repair, ACL reconstruction, meniscal repair ect)
• Carpal tunnel and cubital tunnel surgery
• Trigger finger
• All procedures of the foot and ankle