Thomas Burns, MD

Thomas Burns, MD, is Medical Director of Westlake Sports Medicine. He is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with sports medicine fellowship training. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin and earned his medical degree from UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He completed an orthopedic residency and a sports medicine fellowship at the Steadman-Hawkins Institute in Vail, Colorado. Drawing on more than thirty years of orthopedic surgical practice, he sets the framework for care across surgical and non-surgical orthopedics, guiding clinical standards, treatment sequences and quality review. He also works with the provider team on advanced joint preservation, regenerative medicine and recovery cases following injury.