Ronald O. Royce, D.O. is Board Certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and a Fellow in the American Osteopathic Academy of Orthopaedics. He graduated from the University of Michigan and the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. He had special training at the Harvard Medical School for pediatric orthopaedics, total joint replacement, and an AO/ASIP fellowship at Visp, Switzerland. His special interests are arthritis surgery, and sports medicine.

Dr Royce is the Clinical Coordinator of the Cartilage Care Clinic at Front Range Orthopaedics. In 2004, after 15 years of practice, Dr. Royce returned to Boston to complete the Adult Joint Reconstruction and Biologic Resurfacing Arthroplasty Fellowship in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital. The fellowship consisted of special study in cartilage care as well as total joint replacement surgery. Dr Royce studied with one of the foremost experts in cartilage repair, Director of Cartilage Repair Center, Tom Minas, M.D. For more information about Dr. Minas, go to his Website at www.cartilagerepairclinic.com.

Dr. Royce traveled in February, 2006 to Russia with the United States Select Hockey team for a championship tournament. Staff and Dr. Royce annually coordinate medical coverage for hockey tournaments in Colorado Springs.

In November the Colorado Symposium on Biological Repair Methods for Cartilage was hosted by Dr. Ronald O. Royce at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. The symposium had leading experts in the repair and care of cartilage and other bone disorders.

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