Dr. Jesse DeLee

Dr. DeLee is an expert in sports medicine, hip and knee replacement, and reconstructive surgery. He is board-certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and subspecialty-certified in sports medicine by the American Orthopedic Society of Sports Medicine. He has performed countless total hip and knee replacements and arthroscopic knee procedures, including meniscectomy, meniscal repair, ligament repairs, reconstructions, and articular cartilage procedures over a thirty-five year period. Dr. DeLee is currently a Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at UT Health San Antonio (formerly The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio); he has been in this position for thirty years.

Dr. DeLee was raised in Port Arthur, Texas and graduated from high school in 1964. He attended college for three years and then entered the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He graduated from UTMB after three years and was elected to the prestigious AOA Medical Honor Society his junior year. Dr. DeLee completed an Orthopedic Residency at The University of Texas Health Sciences Center in 1975. He then served a six-month fellowship in joint replacement surgery with Sir John Charnley in England, the founder of total knee and hip replacement surgery. In 1976, when he returned from England, Dr. DeLee joined an Orthopedic Surgery private practice in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for two years. In 1978, he returned to San Antonio and joined the faculty of the Orthopedic Department at The University of Texas Health Sciences Center, where he remained on the faculty until 1983, attaining the position of Professor of Orthopedic Surgery. In 1983, he was awarded the prestigious ABC Traveling Fellowship in Orthopedic Surgery. In 1983, he entered private practice in Orthopedic Surgery in San Antonio, Texas, specializing in Sports Medicine and Joint Replacement Surgery.