Dr. David Peeler Green, MD

A native Texan, Dr. Green grew up in El Paso, but went to New York City for his orthopaedic and hand surgery training.

In 1970, he joined the full time faculty of the Department of Orthopaedics at the Medical School in San Antonio. For eight years he was the Coordinator of Resident Training, serving also as Chief of the Hand Surgery Service.

While at the medical school, Dr. Green co-authored, with Dr. Charles A. Rockwood, a two volume textbook on fractures that is now in its 7th edition and is the standard reference book on this subject. It is used in all orthopaedic residency training programs throughout the country.

In 1978, he left the medical school and became the first surgeon in San Antonio to devote his practice entirely to hand and upper extremity surgery.

Dr. Green has a special interest and extensive experience in treating athletic injuries of the hand and wrist. He was team physician for the Clark High School football team, and continues to treat high school and college …athletes from the San Antonio area and surrounding communities.

He is the hand surgery consultant for the San Antonio Spurs, and has treated numerous professional athletes, including members of the Dallas Cowboys, major league baseball players, world class gymnasts, elite polo players, professional rodeo cowboys, and golfers on the PGA tour.

Dr. Green has edited a comprehensive textbook entitled Operative Hand Surgery (now in its 6th edition), which is used not only throughout the entire United States, but by hand surgeons in virtually every country in the world. Because of this book, Dr. Green has an international reputation in hand surgery and has been invited as a guest speaker to many foreign countries. He is also a past president of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, and in 1997 was named the Distinguished Alumnus of his own residency training program, The New York Orthopaedic Hospital. In 2010 he was among a dozen hand surgeons from around the world to be named a “Pioneer in Hand Surgery” by the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (www.ifssh.org).

Dr. Green is an enthusiastic skier, a drop-out bluegrass banjo picker, and a student of the "what ifs" of history. He has published two non-medical books: 1) Taking Stock (1995) and 2) Place Names of San Antonio (2002), which reveals stories behind the names of over 1000 streets, parks, schools, buildings, etc. in Bexar and surrounding counties. A revised and updated 3rd edition is due out in early 2011. Learn more about this book by visiting its website - www.sanantonionames.com. As he slowly transitions into retirement, he has also written a book called Planning Ahead: Successful Retirement for the Type A Personality. (https://www.typearetirement.net).