Dr. Richard Hinton, MD, MPH is the director of the MedStar Union
Memorial / Washington Hospital Sports Medicine Fellowship, medical director for
MedStar Sports Health, and attending orthopaedic surgeon at Union Memorial
Hospital where his practice focuses on knee and shoulder surgery in athletes
and other active individuals.
Dr. Hinton serves as team physician for the Tigers' men's and
woman's lacrosse teams, adjunct teaching faculty for the athletic training
program, and coordinates program development in the areas of sports health
between Towson University and MedStar Health.
Dr. Hinton also serves as head team physician for the Women's US
National Lacrosse Team, assistant team physician for Baltimore Ravens NFL
Football Team, and is an executive member of the US Lacrosse Sports, Science
and Safety Committee.
He is the
orthopaedic liaison to the Maryland Board of Physician Quality Assurance for
athletic trainer's licensure, past president of the Maryland Orthopaedic
Society, and current member of the American Orthopaedic Society, publications
committee.
His research interests
include sports injury epidemiology, adolescent knee conditions, and
biomechanical aspects of sports, knee and shoulder surgery.
Prior to returning to medical school, Dr. Hinton had a
previous career as a physical therapist and athletic trainer and continues to
be active in education for these health professional groups.
He attended physical therapy school at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He obtained his master's in athletic training at the University of Virginia, medical doctorate at the Johns Hopkins
Medical Institutions, and Masters of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health. His orthopaedic residency and sports
medicine fellowship were at the Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore and
Pediatric Orthopaedic Fellowship at Johns Hopkins. He is an assistant professor
of orthopaedic surgery at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Hinton is married to Dr. Endrika Hinton, who practices
reproductive endocrine and infertility/general gynecology at Greater Baltimore
Medical Center and the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. They have been long time residents of the
Towson area and have four children: Ella, Ada, Wiatt, and Webb.
