Dr. Greg DeSilva is an associate professor in the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and has served as a faculty member in the department since 2007. He has served as the residency program director at the University of Arizona since 2009.

Dr. DeSilva attended the University of Michigan for both his undergraduate and medical degrees. He stayed in Ann Arbor where he completed his orthopaedic surgery training while he served as a resident team physician for the University of Michigan. He completed a hand surgery fellowship in Baltimore at Union Memorial Hospital, the Curtis National Hand Center, in Baltimore, Maryland.

He has been active in the Council of Orthopaedic Residency Directors, American Orthopaedic Association, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Orthopaedic Trauma Association serving on numerous committees. Also, he has served as President of the Detroit Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the Southwest Orthopaedic Trauma Association (SWOTA). With his colleagues from SWOTA, he is co-director of the annual Intern Motor Skills Course.

Dr. DeSilva's academic interests include athletic injuries of the hand, wrist and elbow, management of bone loss, soft tissue coverage, and surgical education. He is the author of numerous scientific journal articles in orthopaedics, which have focused on scaphoid fractures and wrist injuries in athletes, and elbow dislocations in wrestlers, in particular.

Dr. DeSilva is board certified through the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery with additional ABOS certification in the sub-specialty of hand surgery.

DEGREES                                                                                       
BA: University of Michigan, Biomedical Sciences, 1990
MD: University of Michigan, 1994

RESIDENCY
Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Michigan

FELLOWSHIP
Hand Surgery, Union Memorial Hospital, Curtis National Hand Center, Baltimore, MD

BOARD CERTIFICATIONS
American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery
American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hand Surgery