Dr. Thomas is a Board-Certified and Sports Medicine Fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon, who holds an additional Certificate of Added Qualification (CAQ) in Orthopedic Sports Medicine. He has been voted one of Austin Monthly’s “Top Doctors” in Austin for the past 6 years. He was the Chief of the Sports Medicine Department at Baylor Scott & White – Round Rock from 2007-2012. He is also a local semi-professional, university, and high school team physician and performs surgery on all major orthopedic and sports-related injuries, including knee ligament reconstruction, meniscus repair, cartilage restoration, shoulder reconstruction, and rotator cuff repair. His recent area of focus includes robotic knee replacement, leading to more accurate placement and longer-lasting implants. His goal is to preserve and repair a patient’s own tissue whenever possible, and to augment or replace tissue that has suffered extensive trauma. Overall, he aims to return patients to their pre-injury activity level.

Dr. Thomas was born and raised in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area and graduated as Class Valedictorian, National Achievement Scholar, and National Merit Scholar-semifinalist from his high school in Columbia, MD. After high school, Dr. Thomas attended Princeton University in Princeton, NJ on a 4-year full-tuition Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship. While a Biology/Pre-med major, Dr. Thomas spent all 4 years on the Varsity Track & Field Team and earned the Kean-Fitzpatrick Award for the most outstanding highhurdler, and the Caldwell Fund Scholar-Athlete Award, a $2000/year scholarship for medical school education.

Dr. Thomas continued his training by attending medical school and orthopedic surgery residency at the world famous Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. While there, he was the recipient of several medical research awards including those from the National Medical Fellowships and the National Institutes of Health. He then pursued further specialized training by completing a 2-year sports medicine fellowship as a Team Physician for the Division I Varsity and Intramural Athletic Programs at the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY. This prestigious fellowship included training at the internationally known Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York, NY and the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic in Vail, CO. During his fellowship, he also worked with several professional athletic teams including the New York Giants, the New York Mets, the Denver Broncos, the Colorado Rockies, in addition to athletes on the USA winter and summer Olympic Teams, and USA Gymnastics.