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Rhett Hobgood, MD
It was during his high-school years in Vicksburg that a football injury sent him to a Jackson orthopedist for treatment on a pars defect spinal injury. "He was very influential to me and helped me get better," Hobgood said. "I think that kind of directed my attention to medicine and probably orthopedics as well. "I enjoy doing things with my hands as well as the technical aspect of orthopedic surgery, so this was my focus even before going into medical school." Today, Hobgood is one of 10 orthopedists in practice at Mississippi Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center in Jackson. The 24-year-old group includes specialists in the areas of hip and knee replacement; hand surgery; shoulder, elbow and wrist surgery; foot and ankle procedures; as well as anterior cruciate ligament procedures. Each is Board Certified or Board Eligible by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. The group practices in its main center on Jackson's Fortification Street and operates satellite clinics in Clinton, Brookhaven, Cleveland, Magee and Yazoo City. Its physicians treat both orthopedic problems and athletic injuries, and are affiliated with several area schools and as team physicians for colleges in Jackson and around the state. Hobgood joined the group in August 2007 after completing a fellowship in arthroscopy and arthroplasty at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, Calif. His tenure there was under Eugene Wolf, MD, and Jim Kelly, MD. Hobgood attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and completed his undergraduate work at Mississippi State University, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology in 1995. He received a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson in 2001, followed by an orthopedic surgery residency at UMC which he completed in 2006. While in residency, he took part in an AO International Fellowship with the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. He completed his one-year fellowship in San Francisco in July 2007. Along the way, Hobgood earned honors including membership in Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, the Society of Scholars in the Arts and Sciences and Alpha Epsilon Delta Pre-Med Honor Society. He earned first place overall in the 19th Annual Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference in 2000, and was noted for Best Resident Presentation by the Mississippi Orthopaedic Society in 2004. Throughout his training, he had hoped to return to Mississippi to begin his practice. "Jackson is a great medical community and it's been a pleasant place to practice orthopedics — especially here with this group," he said. "To have nine different specialists surrounding me offers a level of specialization and expertise." The team of partners often collaborates on cases and bounces ideas off one another when it comes to dealing with more-complex cases, Hobgood said. "It's certainly helpful to have that level of collaboration right at hand, rather than having to seek out other surgeons in different areas. You have them all under one roof." In his own area of practice, Hobgood focuses chiefly on shoulder surgery, the most common of which are arthroscopic procedures for rotator-cuff repair and for shoulder instability. He also performs a significant amount of shoulder-replacement surgery, including total shoulder arthroplasty and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty. The latter version of the procedure allows the restoration of normal motion for those patients suffering from an irreparable rotator cuff tear as well as advanced degenerative joint disease of the shoulder. In addition, Hobgood frequently performs revision procedures for total shoulder arthroplasty for patients, who come to the clinic from across the state. His balance of clinical and surgical time is divided among weekday mornings and afternoons, as his schedule sends him to the operating room on Tuesday and Friday mornings, Wednesday afternoons and all day Thursdays. He spends Friday afternoons in clinic at the group's Madison branch. Outside of work, Hobgood's outlet for stress is the road cycling he enjoys on his own and as part of the riding group Jackson Metro Cyclists. The club is more than a decade old and is affiliated with the United States Cycling Federation among other national associations. The Jackson group often takes part in century rides — 100-mile road treks defined by self-challenge rather than competitive racing. Among recent ventures in which Hobgood took part was a scenic century ride through the mountains of northern Georgia. At home, he spends time with his wife, Shane, and supports her musical endeavors. A singer and Jackson native, she performs country music locally and around the state alongside guitarist Frazier Riddell. Bookmark:
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