Brent Andrew Ponce, M.D.

Brent A. Ponce, MD, is Professor and Vice Chair of Faculty Development in the MUSC Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and PM\&R. He is from Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Cincinnati. He attended Vanderbilt University School of Medicine on an Air Force scholarship and completed a surgical internship at Wright State University \& Wright Patterson Air Force Base. After serving as a flight surgeon in Columbus, Mississippi, he went to Boston, MA for orthopaedic surgery residency at the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program. He completed his shoulder fellowship at Harvard at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham \& Women's Hospitals under the mentorship of Drs. JP Warner and Peter Millett. He fulfilled his military commitment at the Air Force Academy where he also served as the team physician for the men's basketball program and was deployed to Iraq as part of OEF/OIF. In 2006, Dr. Ponce joined the faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he rose to Professor and Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs and Director of the Orthopaedic Skills Lab. In 2021, he joined the Hughston Clinic where he was Chair of Research for the Hughston Foundation. In October 2025, he joined the MUSC Shoulder and Elbow Service. Dr. Ponce currently serves as the Chair of AO Sports helping to educate surgeons all over the world. He is also the founder of the Collaborative of Orthopaedic Educational Research Group (COERG), a large multi-center collaborative focusing on resident education and faculty development research. Academically, Dr. Ponce has published \~200 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Ponce is a member of several orthopaedic societies including the: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Orthopaedic Association, and American Shoulder and Elbow Society. Dr. Ponce specializes in all conditions involving the shoulder including: fractures, arthritis/replacements, rotator cuff tears, and shoulder dislocations.