Roy Carls, MD – Chief Medical Officer

Roy Carls, MD – Chief Medical Officer

Education

  • Medical School
    Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  • Residency
    National Naval Medical Center – Orthopedic Surgery
  • Fellowship
    Union Memorial Hospital – Foot & Ankle Fellowship

About

Roy Carls, MD, a San Diego, CA, native, trained at UCLA as a scholarship track and field decathlete, going on to earn a BS in kinesiology pre-med. He serves as Precision’s Chief Medical Officer.

Dr. Carls joined Navy and earned an MD degree at USUHS Bethesda, MD. After his Portsmouth Naval Hospital surgical internship, he became a Naval flight surgeon and was stationed with the Marines at Cherry Point, NC. He completed his orthopedic surgery residency at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, and his foot and ankle fellowship at Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, MD with Drs. Mark Myerson and Lew Schon.

After fellowship, he was an attending orthopedic surgeon at NNMC teaching hospital in Bethesda, and then his last duty station in the Navy was as a team orthopedic surgeon, stationed at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD.

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Board Certification

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery

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