Overview
Dominic L. Van Nielen, MD, completed his undergraduate degree at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX. While there, he competed on the multiple national championship winning MSU cycling team. Following graduation, he spent a year racing in Europe before returning for his medical training at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA and orthopedic surgery residency at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA. Following graduation, Dr. Van Nielen served as a general orthopedic surgeon in the U.S. Navy for five years, providing world class musculoskeletal care to active-duty service members and their dependents in Japan, Southern California, and Spain. He separated from the Navy in 2022 to complete his fellowship training in total joint replacement at the Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics in Baltimore, Maryland.Outside of work, Dr. Van Nielen enjoys staying active, photography, and spending time with his family. He is happily married to his wife Brittany, a physical therapist, and together they have four children. They love spending time outdoors as a family and are avid hikers, skiers and lovers of the National Park System.
Dr. Nielen is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Osteotomy. His top areas of expertise are Osteoarthritis, Bursitis, Tenosynovitis, Osteotomy, and Knee Replacement.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 2 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 1 article in the study of Osteotomy.
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Locations
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Nielen has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Robert Hart is an Orthopedics provider in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Hart is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Osteotomy. His top areas of expertise are Kyphosis, Lordosis, Scoliosis, Osteotomy, and Spinal Fusion. Dr. Hart is currently accepting new patients.
Proliance Surgeons
Grant Garcia, MD, is a board-eligible orthopedic surgeon with advanced accredited fellowship training in sports medicine and shoulder surgery. Dr. Garcia’s primary focus for his practice is sports medicine, having a great interest in returning athletes safely to their sport after shoulder, knee and elbow injuries and surgeries. During residency and fellowship, Dr. Garcia trained in numerous advanced sports procedures and techniques. These include cartilage regeneration, meniscus transplantation, multi-ligamentous knee reconstruction and complex limb realignment procedures. In addition, many minimally invasive shoulder procedures, including stemless arthroplasty, stabilization procedures, and rotator cuff revision surgery are part of his expertise. He has special elbow training in ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction and repair procedures. Dr. Garcia is also fellowship trained in orthobiologic treatments, including stem cell transplantation and PRP, to assist in these surgical procedures, as well as non-operative treatments. Dr. Garcia has authored over 50 publications found in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery and Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. He has presented more than 60 academic sports papers worldwide, in addition to authoring book chapters on advanced techniques in sports medicine. He has also published over a dozen papers on sports medicine that have been featured in ESPN.com, Orthopedics Today and AAOS Now. Dr. Garcia was an assistant team physician for the Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox. During residency, he cared for players on the New York Giants, New York Mets, US Tennis Team, New York Rangers, New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets, as well as many collegiate athletes. Dr. Garcia is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Osteotomy. His top areas of expertise are Osteochondritis Dissecans, Osgood-Schlatter Disease, Tendinitis, Osteotomy, and Tenotomy.
Burt Yaszay is an Orthopedics specialist and a Pediatric Orthopedics provider in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Yaszay is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Osteotomy. His top areas of expertise are Scoliosis, Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis, Kyphosis, Spinal Fusion, and Osteotomy.
Areas of Expertise
MediFind evaluates expertise by pulling from factors such as number of articles a doctor has published in medical journals, participation in clinical trials, speaking at industry conferences, prescribing and referral patterns, and strength of connections with other experts in their field.
Learn more about MediFind’s expert tiers
- Advanced
- OsteoarthritisDr. Nielen isAdvanced. Learn about Osteoarthritis.
- OsteotomyDr. Nielen isAdvanced. Learn about Osteotomy.
- Experienced
- BursitisDr. Nielen isExperienced. Learn about Bursitis.
- Knee ReplacementDr. Nielen isExperienced. Learn about Knee Replacement.
- TendinitisDr. Nielen isExperienced. Learn about Tendinitis.
- TenosynovitisDr. Nielen isExperienced. Learn about Tenosynovitis.