Travis Gardner Maak MD

Travis Gardner Maak, Associate Professor and Director of the Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowship, specializes in the surgical treatment of pediatric, adolescent, and adult sports injuries, focusing on the hip and knee. He is the Head Orthopaedic Team Physician for the Utah Jazz, Team Physician for the University of Utah Athletics, and Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Utah. Dr. Maak is originally from Salt Lake City and a graduate of Stanford University. He completed his medical school at Yale School of Medicine and a surgical internship at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical College. His orthopedic surgery residency training occurred at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, where he continued his training with a fellowship in sports medicine. During his fellowship, Dr. Maak served as an Assistant NFL Team Physician for the New York Football Giants. Dr. Maak practices at the University Orthopaedic Center, South Jordan Health Center, and Primary Children's Hospital. Dr. Maak specializes in arthroscopic hip and knee surgery and has a specific interest in the preservation of the athletic hip and knee.

His hip practice includes hip arthroscopy and preservation surgery, femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), labral repair and reconstruction, hip instability requiring capsular repair and/or reconstruction, cartilage restoration including transplantation, gluteal tendon repairs, and reconstruction, and proximal hamstring repairs and/or reconstruction. Dr. Maak has developed, performed, published, and teaches a new, arthroscopic cartilage transplantation procedure (AMECT) that restores early cartilage injuries in the hip.

His knee practice focuses on ACL reconstruction, patellar instability including MPFL reconstruction and tibial tubercle osteotomy, complex knee joint restoration and reconstruction (including meniscus transplantation, cartilage repair, osteotomy, and multi-ligament (ACL/PCL/LCL/MCL repair and reconstruction). He also has an extensive pediatric focus including tibial spine repair, osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) repair, and treatment of knee injuries complicated by open growth plates.

He has been actively involved in research throughout his medical career and has published numerous scientific and clinical articles in the areas of hip and knee reconstruction. His research interests include hip and knee joint preservation, femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), meniscus and articular cartilage injury, and knee joint biomechanics.