Hospitals
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Floyd County Memorial Hospital
Education
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Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Des Moines, IA
Residency
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Florida Orthopedic Institute, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
Fellowship
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A.O. International Trauma Fellowship, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Dr. Clark maintains a busy orthopedic practice focused on enabling patients to overcome their physical challenges—whether they are related to injury or the aging process. In private practice since 2000, Dr. Clark has been at the forefront of adopting hip and knee arthroplasty innovations. One of the first adopters of the direct anterior approach to total hip replacement in the Midwest, he has focused on less-invasive surgical techniques, as well as robotic knee replacement. Among the first to perform MAKOplasty, a partial knee replacement technique that involves a robotic arm, in his home state of Iowa, Dr. Clark has extensive experience in joint care. With a special interest in advanced surgical outcome metrics and rapid recovery protocols, Dr. Clark has become a leader in the UnityPoint Health system in patient length-of-stay, typically discharging his joint patients either same-day or next-day following surgery.
Beginning with his residency at Michigan State University and continuing at the University of Northern Iowa, Dr. Clark has been treating Division I athletes for over two decades, including numerous All-Americans and some who compete currently at the professional level in football and basketball. An expert in sports-related injuries, Dr. Clark has been on the sidelines for more than 500 Division I football, basketball, and wrestling competitions, serving as the Team Physician for the University of Northern Iowa and Wartburg College since 2000.
Highly competitive by nature, Dr. Clark has an intense passion for helping his patients to overcome their injuries or impairments and reach their individual victories.
Philosophy
A former college athlete, Dr. Clark knows what it is like to compete in sports at a high level. After sports, he channeled that drive into the field of orthopedic surgery. For Dr. Clark, surgery is an opportunity to pursue victory for his patients. He encourages every patient, regardless of age or circumstance, to adopt that same competitive approach—to ambitiously pursue victory over injury and the physical effects of aging.
Sports Medicine
Dr. Clark has served as the Team Physician for UNI athletics since 2000. In that role, he has attended more than 400 football and basketball games, including the 2005 Division I FCS National Championship game and UNI Basketball’s 2010 appearance in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen. As the physician for collegiate wrestling’s National Dual Meet Championship from 2005-2011, Dr. Clark treated elite wrestlers from around the country. Additionally, Dr. Clark cares for Wartburg College and Upper Iowa University athletes as Team Physician.
