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Schedule An Appointment Request William G. Clancy, Jr., M.D. William G. Clancy, Jr., M.D., graduated from Brooklyn Preparatory in 1959, where he earned the title Eastern States Champion for his achievements in track. His education continued at Manhattan College, where he won the United States National Track and Field Championship in 1960. After graduating with honors in 1963, he received the prestigious Jasper Award for academics and athletics. While a student at Downstate College of Medicine, he won the gold medal as the United States Track Champion before graduating in 1967. Dr. Clancy completed his orthopaedic residency in 1972 at Columbia University's St Luke's Hospital in New York City. For the following two years, he served as a lieutenant commander at the United States Naval Academy, where he was chief of orthopaedic surgery and the head team physician for all Naval Academy athletic teams. In 1974, he was recruited by the University of Wisconsin to develop a sports medicine program; the only one of its kind at a major university at the time and a model for future sports medicine programs. While at the University of Wisconsin, he invented and perfected the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction and posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction procedures, which are used by virtually all knee surgeons throughout the world today. The vast majority of NFL, NBA and NHL players requiring surgery for their ACL tears have had the 'Clancy Procedure.' His other athletic accomplishments include service as team orthopaedist for the 1980 gold medal-winning U.S.A. Hockey Team at the 1980 Olympics at Lake Placid and the U.S. Ski Team Nordic at the Olympic Games in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, head team physician for the U.S.A. Hockey Team at the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway, medical director for the U.S. Ski Nordic Jumping Team for 10 years, medical director for U.S.A. Hockey for the past 11 years, co-medical director for the LPGA Tour during the last nine years and the PGA TOUR since 1999 and team orthopaedist for Jacksonville State University since 1989. Dr. Clancey also provides sports medicine coverage for the University of Alabama and Georgia Tech University. Dr. Clancy and his wife, Kathy, have three children. Their daughter Elise was a bronze medal-winner in the NCAA as a soccer player for the University of Virginia and is now an attorney. Their son Chris was an Academic All-American in ice hockey at Dartmouth College and is now a psychiatry resident at Harvard University. Their youngest daughter Kerry was a four-year varsity letter winner in soccer for the University of Virginia and now works for an Internet company in Buenos Aires. Dr. Clancy is an avid golfer, fly fisherman and racer of vintage sports cars. Click Here For Additional Contact Information |
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