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Dr. Garrigues is shoulder and elbow specialist in the sports medicine division of orthopaedic surgery, Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard, a research degree from MIT, completed his orthopaedic residency at Duke University, and a shoulder and elbow fellowship at The Rothman Institute. He was the Head of Shoulder Reconstruction and Co-Director of the Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery Fellowship at Duke for a decade before being recruited to Rush.

Currently, he is co-team physician for the Chicago White Sox (Major League Baseball) and formerly also of the Chicago Bulls (National Basketball Association). Dr. Garrigues has been honored with multiple awards, including the 2017 ASES European traveling fellowship, a prestigious 2018 OREF grant, an ASES research grant, an NIH R01 grant, and the 2025 Charles S. Neer Award for outstanding clinical science in shoulder surgery.

He has authored over 200 publications, multiple textbooks, and was the Co-Chair of the International Consensus on Periprosthetic Joint Infection Shoulder Task-force. Additionally, he has been involved in the design of multiple, successful, FDA-approved shoulder replacement systems.

Dr. Garrigues’ clinical practice is based in Chicago, Oak Brook, and Naperville, Illinois at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush and Rush University Medical Center where he focuses on the management of any and all shoulder and elbow conditions.

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Dr. Garrigues is a Shoulder and Elbow specialist at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush and co-team physician for the Chicago White Sox.  Dr. Garrigues has been honored with multiple awards, including the 2017 ASES European traveling fellowship, 2025 Neer Award, and grants from OREF and NIH.  He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard, a research degree from MIT, and was the Head of Shoulder Reconstruction at Duke before joining MOR in 2018.