David Erpenbach, Dmsc, Pa-C Email and Phone Number

• Take 12-24 hour orthopaedic primary call at UT Medical Center.• Assess, triage, and appropriately treat all orthopaedic injuries that come to the Level 1 Trauma Center while on call.• Perform and dictate ER and inpatient operative and non-operative orthopaedic consults.• Round daily, chart, and manage all inpatients on Dr. Tonne’s service.• First assist and routinely close various trauma and elective surgical procedures. • Complete various office responsibilities such as answer patient questions, refill prescriptions, pre-op and book patients for surgery, and dictate discharge summaries.• Serve as a board member on a multi-disciplinary Trauma board for UT Medical Center.• Regularly assist in new hire PA training teaching EHR, hospital and clinic responsibilities.

• Independent clinic schedule seeing a variety of operative and non-operative spine conditions including radicular symptoms, discitis/osteomyelitis, metastatic disease involving the spine, fractures, and stenosis.• First assisted in surgery with Dr. Merrill White on a various spinal decompressions, fusions, and scoliosis corrections.• Rounded on inpatients on the service of Dr. White and participated in their perioperative care. • Performed hospital consults, dictated discharge summaries, and answered patient questions called into the office.

Same role as current position description.