Tamarack Spine & Sports Medicine

Tamarack Spine and Sports Medicine was founded in 2008 by Timothy Doerr, MD and Jared Tadje, MD. Dr. Doerr had the opportunity during his training to work near the ski resorts in Colorado, and Dr. Tadje had a similar experience working in South Lake Tahoe. They discovered satisfaction from working not only with elite athletes, but also everyday people who enjoy staying active. Tamarack Spine and Sports Medicine was established to provide excellent orthopaedic care to the people of all ages and athletic ability in close proximity to a premier resort destination. It is conveniently situated to provide care to all the patients in Valley County for their general orthopaedic needs.

Timothy E. Doerr, M.D. was raised in Basin, Wyoming, which is located between the Rocky Mountains and the Tetons. He has been an active athlete throughout his life. As a four sport letterman he received All-Conference Football Honors, All-State Track Honors and won the Wyoming State Wrestling Championship. He was awarded the Wyoming Outstanding Student Athlete (Mower) Award in 1983. He has been an avid freestyle skier since the inception of the sport and has continued to compete to this day.

Dr. Doerr graduated as Valedictorian of Basin High School in1983, after which he attended the University of Wyoming on a Superior Student Scholarship. He received his Bachelor of Science at the University of Wyoming, graduating with Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi Honors, in 1987. He received his M.D. from the University of California, Davis where he graduated in the top five percent of his class in 1991.

Dr. Doerr completed a General Surgical Internship at the University of Colorado in 1992. He completed his Orthopaedic Surgery Residency at the University of Colorado in 1996 where, as Chief Resident, he scored the highest score in the nation on the Orthopaedic In-Training Examination. Dr. Doerr's Orthopaedic Residency Training was heavily weighted towards adult reconstruction (joint replacement) and sports medicine where he trained with the team doctors for the Denver Broncos, Colorado Rockies, Colorado Avalanche, University of Colorado and Denver University. He completed a one-year spine fellowship at the University of Colorado in 1997 which focused on complex spinal surgery.

Dr. Doerr has been in practice at Orthopaedic Associates in Boise since 1997. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He is also a member of the North American Spine Society and the Idaho Orthopaedic Society. Dr. Doerr co-founded Tamarack Spine and Sports Medicine in 2008 with Dr. Jared Tadje, satisfying a life-long dream to provide top-notch orthopaedic care at a premier ski resort in the Northwest.

Dr. Doerr's practice concentrates on minimally invasive orthopaedic surgery, including arthroscopic treatment of sports injuries of the shoulder and knee, microscopic treatment of spinal disorders of the neck and lower back, as well as minimally invasive joint replacement surgery.

Jared Tadje, MD was born and raised in Utah, just minutes away from several Olympic-class ski resorts. He developed a love for the outdoors at a young age, and spent countless days in the Utah mountains and reservoirs hiking, climbing, and enjoying snow and water sports. He became interested in sports medicine at a young age when he injured his shoulder waterskiing.

After graduating from Brigham Young University Cum Laude with University Honors, he attended medical school at the University of Virginia. There, he performed and published research on sports injuries of the shoulder and knee. He published an innovative approach to increasing the strength of arthroscopic repair of shoulder and knee injuries.

After graduating from University of Virginia, Dr. Tadje received 5 years of orthopaedic training at the University of Michigan. This gave him a unique opportunity to work closely with Big-10 college athletes. He trained with the University of Michigan team physician for the football, basketball, and hockey teams, and was able to assist with the treatment and surgery of their sports injuries. He also performed several research projects and published original research in the Journal of Knee Surgery. In addition to his sports medicine experience, he also received comprehensive training in all aspects of orthopaedic care, including arthritis treatment and joint replacement.

After his training, Dr. Tadje returned to the West and his love of outdoors. He worked at the base of Heavenly Resort in South Lake Tahoe treating skiing injures. There he worked with several current and former US Ski Team physicians, and spent a significant amount of time skiing and participating in water sports. He desired additional experience treating spine injures, so he then performed a spine surgery fellowship at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Dr. Tadje lives with his wife and 5 boys in Boise. He stays busy with his children's sporting events, and he is very involved with community education and church events. Working at Tamarack allows him to work with motivated patients while satisfying his love of outdoor recreation. He specializes in fractures, ligament and cartilage injuries, arthroscopy and spine surgery.

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