CURRICULUM VITAE
SOHEIL NAJIBI, M.D., Ph.D.
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
1000 West Carson Street, Box 422
Torrance, California 90509
(310) 222-2716
EDUCATION
College of Marin
University of California, Berkeley
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
University of Iowa
Hip and Pelvis Institute(Joel M Matta)
1986-1989
1989-1990
1990-1995
1990-1997
1997-1998
1998-2002
2002-2003
2008-2009
B.A.
Ph.D.
M.D.
Internship
Residency
Fellowship
Fellowship
Molecular Cell Biology
Physiology
Medicine
General Surgery
Orthopaedic Surgery
Sports Medicine
Pelvic and Acetabular Trauma
Anterior Total Hip
Reconstruction
LICENSING
Full License in state of Massachusetts, #205486 (expired)
Full License in state of Iowa, #34524 (current)
Full License in state of Michigan, #4301082734 (current)
Full License in state of Arizona, # 33241 (current)
Full License in state of California, # A88147 (current)
Full License in state of Nevada # 11120 (current)
DEA #BN6947355
NPI # 1215003686
UPIN No: H99138
Medicaid No: 4557985-10
CERTIFICATION
USMLE Part I
USMLE Part II
USMLE Part III
Orthopaedic Surgery Written Boards
Orthopaedic Surgery Oral Boards
Diplomat, American Board of Orthopaedics
Passed
1996
Passed
1997
Passed
1999
Passed
2002
Passed
7/28/06
July 28, 2006 – December 31, 2016
AFFILIATIONS
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery, Fellow
American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine, Member
Orthopaedic Trauma Association, Member
American Medical Association, Member
CLINICAL APPOINTMENTS
Head team physician, Men’s Ice Hockey, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts,
2001-2002
Fellow team physician, Football, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 2002
Fellow team physician, Basketball, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 2002-2003
Fellow team physician, Men’s and Women’s Gymnastics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 2003
Senior Staff Surgeon, Department of Orthopedics, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, 2003-present
Head team physician, Motor City Mechanics, Professional Hockey (UHL) team 2004-2005
Associate Orthopaedic Residency Director, Henry Ford Health Systems, 2006- 2008
Hip and Pelvis Fellow, Saint John’s Hospital 2008-2009.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Effects of nitric oxide on fracture healing, cartilage and ligament injury.
Epidemiology of non-military gunshot wounds in the musculoskeletal system
Anterior Cruciate ligament allograft biomechanical testing.
Effects of Bone-morphogenic proteins on bone healing in large defects.
CLINICAL INTERESTS
Sports Medicine: Arthroscopic and open shoulder reconstruction, shoulder arthroplasty; arthroscopic
and open knee ligamentous reconstruction, and cartilage procedures including OATS, OCT and
osteochondral allografts; knee osteotomies and limb deformity correction.
Orthopaedic Trauma: Pelvic and acetabular reconstruction. Fracture care. Management of polytrauma patients. Management of gunshot wounds to the extremities. Management of articular and periarticular fractures, knee dislocations and fracture dislocations. Shoulder fractures and fracture
dislocations.
Reconstruction: Minimally invasive anterior approach for total hip arthroplasty . peri-acetabular
osteotomies. Shoulder arthroplasty.
ORTHOPAEDIC COURSES AND MEETINGS
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AO Basic Fracture Course, Charlotte, NC 1998
Boston Orthopaedic Trauma Symposium 1999
Boston Orthopaedic Pathology Course 1999
Boston Orthopaedic Trauma Symposium 2000
Boston Orthopaedic Trauma Symposium 2001
AAOS 17th Annual Comprehensive Review Course March 2001
New England Resident’s Spine Symposium 2001
Zimmer National Orthopaedic Resident Meeting 2001
Boston Orthopaedic Pathology Course 2002
Maine Comprehensive Orthopaedic Review Course 2002
AAOS 69th Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX 2002
AAOS 70th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA 2003
AAOS 71st Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA 2004
Taylor Spatial Frame and Ring External Fixation Course, Columbus, OH 2004
Current Solutions in Orthopaedic Trauma, Tampa, FL, Nov 2004
Advances in Locked Plating, Birmingham, MI, March 2005
AOSSM Annual Meeting, Keystone Colorado, July 2005
AAOS 73rd Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA 2006
Osteoarthritis Symposium, Dearborn, MI, April 2006
AAOS/ASES: Completing the transition from open to arthroscopic rotator cuff tears. Los Angeles
CA 2006
Boston Orthopaedic Trauma Symposium 2006
Reverse Shoulder Prosthesis Course, Tornier, Boston 2007
Orthopaedic Trauma Association, Boston 2007
Henry Ford Sports Medicine Symposium, Dearborn , MI 2008
AAOS 75th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA 2008
AO Fourteenth Pelvic and Acetabular Fracture Management Course, Toronto Canada, May 1-4,
2008
27. AOSSM Annual Meeting, Orlando FL, July 2008
28. 20th Emile Letournel Institute Course and Workshop. Fractures of the Acetabulum and Pelvis,
Santa Monica, CA. September 2008
29. Orthopaedic Trauma Association, Denver October 2008
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Henry Ford Health Systems
10/03 to 08/08
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Several projects involving the epidemiology of extremity gunshot wounds, prevalence of gunshot wounds
to the joints, biomechanical studies on fixation of olecranon with FiberWire tension band, biomechanical
studies of load to failure of multiple tissue grafts used for ACL reconstruction, and study of risk factors
influencing simultaneous bilateral extensor mechanism rupture, and a study of bone healing in opening
wedge osteotomies with use of pone morphogeneic protein.
Boston Medical Center and Lahey Clinic
7/98 to 6/02
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Three projects involving the efficacy of non-reamed tibial nailing in tibial fractures, efficacy and feasibility
of all-polyethylene tibial components in total knee arthroplasty, pros and cons of foley catheter utilization
in total joint arthroplasty were studied.
Boston University School of Medicine
5/92 to 9/95
Department of Physiology and Vascular Biology
Several projects involving endothelium-dependent relaxation in normal and hypercholesterolemic rabbit
arteries, as well as mechanisms of vascular smooth muscle contraction were studied.
Boston University School of Medicine
5/91 to 8/91
Department of Physiology and Vascular Biology
The effects of extracellular matrix on endothelial cell attachment and growth in cell cultures were studied.
The effects of fibronectin and laminin on the rate of growth and differentiation of endothelial cells were
investigated in the cell culture model.
University of California, Berkeley
9/89 to 5/90
Department of Molecular Cell Biology
Senior honors research project at U.C. Berkeley. The effects of L-Propionylcarnitine on myocardial
ischemia and reperfusion injury were studied in the isolated Langandorff rat heart.
College of Marin
2/88 to 6/88
Department of Chemistry
Design of a multistep purification process to reclaim silver from heavy metal waste.
DOCTORATE THESIS
Regulation of vascular smooth muscle tone via endothelium-derived nitric oxide via two distinct
mechanisms.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Leipala JA, Bhatnagar R, Pineda E, Najibi S, Massoumi K and Packer L: Protection of the
Reperfused Heart by L-propionylcarnitine. J. Appl. Physiol. 1991; 2471(4): 1518-1522.
2. Cowan CL, Palacino JJ, Najibi S and Cohen RA: Potassium Channel-Mediated Relaxation to
Acetylcholine in Rabbit Arteries. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 1993; 266(3): 1482-1489.
3. Najibi S, Cowan CL, Palacino JJ and Cohen RA: Enhanced Role of Potassium Channels in
Relaxations to Acetylcholine in Hypercholesterolemic Rabbit Carotid Arteries. Am. J. Phsiol. 1994; 266:
H2061-H2067.
4. Bolotina VM, Najibi S, Palacino JJ, Pagano PJ and Cohen RA: Nitric Oxide Directly Activates
Calcium-dependent Potassium Channels in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells. Nature 1994; 268: 850-853.
5. Stegeman JJ, Hahn ME, Weisbrod R, Woodin BR, Joy JS, Najibi S and Cohen RA: Induction of
Cytochrome P4501A1 by Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Agonist in Porcine Aorta Endothelial Cells in Culture
and Cytochrome P4501A1 Activity in Intact Cells. Mol. Pharmacol 1995; 47:296-306.
6. Najibi S and Cohen RA: Enhanced Role of Potassium Channels in Relaxations of
Hypercholesterolemic Rabbit Carotid Artery to Nitric Oxide and Sodium Nitroprusside. Am. J. Physiol
1995; 269: H805-811.
7. Cohen RA, Plane F, Najibi S, Huk I, Malinski T and Garland CJ: Nitric Oxide is the Mediator of Both
Endothelium-Dependent Relaxation and Hyperpolarization of the Rabbit Carotid Artery. Proc Natl Acad
Sci, April 1997, Physiology; Vol 94: 4193-4198.
8. Pagano PJ, Griswold MC, Najibi S, Marklund SL and Cohen RA. Resistance of endotheliumdependent relaxation to elevation of O 2 levels in rabbit carotid artery. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol,
277: H2109-H2114, 1999.
9. Najibi S, Scherl SA and Cramer KE: Pediatric Femur Fracture. J Ortho Trauma, 2000 Aug; 14(6):449450.
10. Adachi T, Matsui R, Weisbrod RM, Najibi S and Cohen RA: Reduced Sacro/Endoplasmic Reticulum
Ca2+ Uptake Activity can Account for the Reduced Response to NO but not Sodium Nitroprusside in
Hypercholesterolemic Rabbit Aorta. Circulation, 2001; 104:1040-1045.
11. Bhandari M, Tornetta P 3rd, Sprague S, Najibi S, Petrisor B, Griffith L and Guyatt GH: Predictors of
Reoperation following Operative Management of Fractures of the Tibial Shaft. J Ortho Trauma. 2003
May; 17(5):353-61.
12. Najibi S, Iorio R, Surdam JW, Whang W, Appleby D and Healy WL: All-Polyethylene and MetalBacked Tibial Components in Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Matched Pair Analysis of Functional Outcome. J
Arthroplasty. 2003 Oct; 18(17 Suppl 1): 9-15.
13. Iorio R, Whang W, Healy WL, Patch DA, Najibi S and Appleby D. The Utility of Bladder
Catheterization in Total Hip Arthroplasty. Clin Orthop Relat Res. March 2005; 432: 148-52.
14. Najibi S and Albright JP. The use of knee braces, part 1: Prophylactic Knee Braces in Contact
Sports. Am J Sports Med. 2005 April; 33(4):602-11.
15. Dougherty PJ, Silverton C and Najibi S. Urban Gunshot Wound Ballistics. Tech Ortho Trauma.
2006 Oct; 21(3):181-185.
16. Najibi S, Dougherty PJ and Morandi M. Management of Gunshot Wounds to the Joints. Tech Ortho
Trauma. 2006 Sept; 21(3):200-204.
17. Dougherty PJ, Najibi S and Morandi M: Gunshot Humerus Shaft Fractures. Tech Ortho Trauma.
2006 Sept; 21(3):214-217.
18. Dougherty PJ, Vaidya R, Silverton CD, Bartlett C, and Najibi S. Joint and Long-Bone Gunshot
Injuries. JBJS Am, 2009 April; 91:980-997.
19. Dougherty PJ, Najibi S, Silverton CD, Vaidya R. Gunshot Wounds: Epidemiology, Wound Ballistics,
and Soft-tissue Treatment. ICL 2009, 58:131-139.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Richard A. Cohen, Soheil Najibi and Victoria Bolotina.
The Other Role of Nitric Oxide as an Endothelium-Derived Hyperpolarizing Factor, 1995.
Annunziato Amendola, Soheil Najibi.
Foot and Ankle Injuries in Athletes. Orthopaedic Knowledge Update, Sports Medicine, third edition.
Paul J. Dougherty, Soheil Najibi
Gunshot and wartime injuries. Rockwood and Green, seventh edition, In press.
ABSTRACTS and SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
1. Soheil Najibi and Manaus Monroe. Reclamation of Silver from Heavy Metal Waste. 7th Annual
Meeting of the Association of North Bay Scientists, Sonoma, CA 1987.
2. Conrad L. Cowan, James J. Palacino, Soheil Najibi, and Richard A. Cohen. Nitric oxide-Independent
Endothelium-Dependent Relaxation to acetylcholine in Rabbit Arteries. FASEB #4436, 1993.
3. Soheil Najibi, Conrad L. Cowan and Richard A. Cohen. Hypercholesterolemia Enhances the
Contribution of Calcium-dependent Potassium Channels to Endothelium-dependent Relaxation in Rabbit
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Carotid artery. American Heart Association's 66 scientific session. Circulation 88(4), Part 2, #37, 1993.
4. Soheil Najibi and Richard A. Cohen. Nitric Oxide Inhibits Contractions due to Calcium Influx by a
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Potassium Channel-dependent Mechanism. American Heart Association's 67 scientific session.
Circulation 90(4), Part 2,#1903, 1994.
5. Robert Weisbrod, Soheil Najibi, and Richard A. Cohen. Decreased Cyclic GMP-dependent Smooth
Muscle Cell Calcium Regulation by Nitric Oxide in Hypercholesterolemia. American Heart Association's
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67 scientific session. Circulation 90(4), Part 2, #3100, 1994.
6. Soheil Najibi and Richard A. Cohen. Hypercholesterolemia Enhances Contribution of Calcium
Activated Potassium Channels to Endothelium Independent Relaxation in Rabbit Carotid Artery. AFCR,
1995.
7. Soheil Najibi and Richard A. Cohen. Nitric Oxide Mediates Endothelium-Dependent Relaxation in
the Presence of Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitors Independently of Cyclic GMP. American Heart
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Association's 68 scientific session. Circulation 1995, 92(8), #2682.
8. P.J. Pagano, M.C. Griswold, Joseph Fiorillo, Soheil Najibi, and R.A Cohen. Resistance of
Endothelium-Dependent Relaxation to Superoxide Anion in the Rabbit Carotid Artery, Evidence for a Role
of Peroxinitrite. Oxygen 95, Second Annual Meeting of the Oxygen Society 1995.
9. Soheil Najibi. Lasers in shoulder and knee surgery. 18th Annual Hawkeye Sports Medicine Symposium.
University of Iowa; December 6-7, 2002.
10. Richard Iorio, Soheil Najibi, William Healy. All-Polyethylene and Metal-Backed Components in
Total Knee Arthroplasty: a Matched Pair Analysis of Functional Outcome. AAOS 70 th Annual Meeting,
P149, New Orleans, MO. 2003.
11. Soheil Najibi. Instructional Course lectures, Treatment of peri-articular gunshot wounds. AAOS 74th
Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. 2007.
12. Soheil Najibi. Instructional Course lectures, Treatment of peri-articular gunshot wounds. AAOS
75th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. 2008
13. William Hakeos MD, Christopher Wybo MS, Major Shane A. Knighton, Ph.D., Paul Dougherty MD.,
and Soheil Najibi MD PhD. The Use of Fiber Wire Suture for Fixation of Olecranon Fractures: A
Biomechanical Comparison of Various Fixation Techniques. Orthopaedic Trauma Association Annual
Meeting, Denver, CO. 2008.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Life-time Member of Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society
American Heart Association Medical Student Research Fellow of 1992-1993
Henry Russek Research Award 1995
American Federation of Research Council Scholarship 1995
Lahey Clinic Orthopaedic Research Award 2002
Detroit Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Research Award, First Place 05/12/2008