Specialties: Sports Medicine, Orthopedic Surgery, Orthotripsy

Dr. Gary Waslewski is currently in his eighth year as orthopedic surgeon for the Phoenix Coyotes Hockey Team.  This duty entails being present at each home game to provide orthopedic care for both the home and visiting teams.  He also accompanies the team on several road trips per year.  He attends the NHL team physicians meetings annually.

This is the third year that Dr. Waslewski is team orthopedic surgeon for the Arizona Cardinals.  For the Cardinals Dr. Waslewski is present at every game, home and away, in addition to holding injured player clinics twice per week at the Cardinals Tempe training facility.  He also evaluates the future professional football players at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis in the spring and attends the preseason Cardinals training camp in Flagstaff, Arizona each August.

Dr. Waslewski also travels with the USA Hockey team providing both orthopedic and medical care for the players, coaches and staff.  He was selected to accompany the team to Germany in 2007 for the Deutschland Cup and to Switzerland for the Men’s World Championships in 2009.

Dr. Waslewski serves as spring training and minor league orthopedic consultant for the Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants.  He works with head team physicians Dr. Gryzlo from the Cubs and Dr. Akizuki from the Giants to coordinate local care, surgery and rehabilitation of each teams injured players.  Both teams run their rehabilitation programs for the minor league players out of Mesa and Scottsdale respectively.

In addition,  Dr. Waslewski acts as co-Medical Director for the Scottsdale High School District Athletic Program with Dr. Erik Dean.  They provide on-site coverage for the 5 Scottsdale High School football games on Friday nights.

Prior to the relocation of the tournaments to Las Vegas, Dr. Waslewski provided medical coverage for the Franklin Templeton ATP/WTA Tennis Tournaments held annually at the Scottsdale Princess Resort.

Dr. Waslewski  instructs hip arthroscopy teaching labs for other orthopedic surgeons from across the country at the Arthrex Hip Arthroscopy Center.