A surgeon's judgment, an engineer's discipline.
Dr. Mark Reed spent fourteen years as a practicing orthopedic surgeon in Seattle, specializing in the surgical and non-surgical care of foot and ankle disorders — from sports injuries and complex trauma to arthritis, deformity correction, and joint replacement. Over that career he evaluated and treated thousands of patients and performed the full range of reconstructive procedures of the lower extremity.
That clinical depth is now the foundation of Reed Orthopedic Institute, where Dr. Reed applies the same rigor to the medical-legal questions that attorneys, carriers, and employers must answer: What happened? What caused it? What does the record actually support? And what does the future hold for the injured party?
The engineering foundation
Before medical school, Dr. Reed earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University. It is an uncommon pairing, and a meaningful one: questions of injury mechanism, force and load transfer, implant fixation, and device failure are, at their core, engineering questions. That training lets him reason about the biomechanics of a claimed injury — and the performance of the hardware used to treat it — from first principles.
Training & lineage
Dr. Reed earned his medical degree at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, completed his orthopedic surgery residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, and pursued subspecialty foot & ankle fellowship training at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore — a nationally recognized center for foot and ankle reconstruction. He is board-certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.