{"id":3888,"date":"2026-04-27T21:53:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vailhealth.org\/staff\/william-sterett\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:19:31","slug":"william-sterett","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.vailhealth.org\/es\/about\/doctor-directory\/william-sterett\/","title":{"rendered":"William Sterett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Especialidad: Reconstrucci\u00f3n de LCA, Lesiones Deportivas de Rodilla y Hombro, Preservaci\u00f3n Articular, Traumatolog\u00eda Ortop\u00e9dica<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00bfC\u00f3mo es ser uno de los cirujanos de ligamento cruzado anterior (LCA) m\u00e1s solicitados del pa\u00eds en un lugar como Vail? Digamos que para el Dr. William Sterett no existen los horarios de consulta. Durante los \u00faltimos 14 a\u00f1os, ha dedicado las noches de los viernes a ofrecer miles de horas de servicios m\u00e9dicos gratuitos en las canchas de los partidos de la escuela secundaria del condado de Eagle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El Dr. Sterett fue socio y socio director en The Steadman Clinic en Vail durante 18 a\u00f1os y ha sido el m\u00e9dico jefe del equipo de esqu\u00ed femenino de EE. UU. desde 1997. Como era de esperar, el Dr. Sterett est\u00e1 de guardia todos los fines de semana de invierno, sin importar las llamadas telef\u00f3nicas de emergencia a mitad de la noche desde el extranjero. Preg\u00fantenle a Lindsay Vonn y sus compa\u00f1eras de equipo. Tambi\u00e9n tiene una larga trayectoria devolviendo atletas a la NFL, NHL, ligas de b\u00e9isbol profesionales, ligas de f\u00fatbol europeas y pr\u00e1cticamente a todos los deportes recreativos conocidos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El Dr. Sterett le dir\u00e1 que tiene el mejor trabajo del mundo y que realmente se divierte. \u00bfQu\u00e9 podr\u00eda ser mejor que arreglar cosas, especialmente cuando esas \u201ccosas\u201d son las personas con las que ha compartido su vida durante los \u00faltimos 18 a\u00f1os? El \u00fanico inconveniente podr\u00eda ser que es dif\u00edcil pasar por el supermercado cuando encuentra un par de pacientes entusiastas en cada pasillo. Pero, en verdad, el Dr. Sterett no lo querr\u00eda de otra manera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aterrizar en Vail no fue un error. Y no, no fue por su pasi\u00f3n de toda la vida por el esqu\u00ed. Su motivaci\u00f3n ten\u00eda que ver puramente con obtener la mejor formaci\u00f3n en medicina deportiva disponible. Como uno de los principales solicitantes del pa\u00eds, el Dr. Sterett rechaz\u00f3 oportunidades de becas en algunas de las mejores instituciones del pa\u00eds para formarse en la Steadman-Hawkins Clinic de Vail en 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tras completar su formaci\u00f3n de becario, decidi\u00f3 buscar una segunda beca en traumatolog\u00eda ortop\u00e9dica, estudiando en Suiza y Alemania. \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 dos becas? El Dr. Sterett deseaba tener la capacidad de tratar la lesi\u00f3n completa de rodilla y hombro, y no solo los tejidos blandos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poco despu\u00e9s, sus mentores, el Dr. Richard Steadman y el Dr. Richard Hawkins, le ofrecieron la oportunidad de hacer crecer la Cl\u00ednica Steadman-Hawkins, de dos personas, hasta su tama\u00f1o actual y estatus de renombre mundial. Para 2011, el Dr. Sterett hab\u00eda sido socio director en la Cl\u00ednica Steadman Hawkins durante 12 a\u00f1os y era uno de los cirujanos de LCA y rodilla compleja m\u00e1s ocupados del pa\u00eds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fiel a su amor por esta comunidad de monta\u00f1a, el Dr. Sterett rechaz\u00f3 algunos de los centros de medicina deportiva m\u00e1s importantes del pa\u00eds para unirse a Vail-Summit Orthopaedics. Vio en VSO la misma pasi\u00f3n por la comunidad que ha definido su carrera desde el primer d\u00eda. Reconoci\u00f3 que sus nuevos colegas en VSO son algunos de los cirujanos ortop\u00e9dicos mejor capacitados del mundo y que compart\u00edan su devoci\u00f3n por poner las necesidades de los pacientes por encima de todo. El Dr. Sterett admiraba el ambiente de equipo en VSO y sab\u00eda que su experiencia con deportes de equipo (tanto jugando en equipos como sirviendo a equipos con experiencia m\u00e9dica) lo har\u00eda una opci\u00f3n \u00fanica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Si el Dr. Sterett quisiera que entendieras una cosa sobre sus \u00e1reas de especializaci\u00f3n, ser\u00eda que la investigaci\u00f3n, la tecnolog\u00eda y las t\u00e9cnicas est\u00e1n cambiando r\u00e1pidamente. Lo que se consideraba cierto hace dos a\u00f1os, puede que ya no lo sea. Ser innovador y creativo con la pr\u00f3xima generaci\u00f3n de t\u00e9cnicas de preservaci\u00f3n de la actividad es lo que ha mantenido al Dr. Sterett a la vanguardia de la medicina deportiva ortop\u00e9dica en este pa\u00eds.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":3889,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"tags":[],"staff-specialties":[36],"class_list":["post-3888","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","staff-specialties-orthopaedics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>William Sterett - Vail Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"William Sterett - Vail Health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Speciality: ACL Reconstruction, Sports Injuries to the Knee and Shoulder, Joint Preservation, Orthopedic Trauma What&#8217;s it like being one of the busiest ACL surgeons in the country in a place like Vail? 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