Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Mitchell Larsen: A Tragic Departure from Utah’s Orthopedic Community: Mitchell Larsen, MD was a Provo orthopedic surgeon with Revere Health. Social media sites reported his death. Provo, Utah native Dr. Mitchell Larsen died this morning, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Official word of his cause of death has not yet been made public. Christine Partin Honeycutt said it has been a very difficult day for the orthopedic family as she announced Mitchell Larsen’s death.
Notes on Mitchell Larsen
Provo, Utah, was the place of his birth and childhood. Doctor Larsen attended Brighton High School. He continued on to BYU to study Physics after high school. Using MESS, Dr. Larsen trained and looked after US Ski Team players. 2012 saw Daily Herald readers name him Utah County’s best orthopaedic surgeon. 2011 saw him ranked among the top three orthopedic surgeons. Doctor Larsen worked as a physician for the US Ski Team. At international meets, he tends to injured professional athletes alongside the squad.
2009–2011 saw Dr. Larsen serve as a team physician for the Utah Flash. His specialities are shoulder and knee repair and sports injuries. Three Utah County orthopaedic surgeons are board-certified in sports medicine, including Dr. Larsen, the chief of the orthopaedic department at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center.
Top universities including Duke, Georgetown, and UT were where he studied medicine. He was trained by a number of internationally recognized surgeons. Dr. Larsen has had articles published in numerous prestigious orthopedic journals. He has written on cartilage injuries, knee ligament injuries, huge rotator cuff tears, and adolescent ACL tears treated with arthroscopic surgery.
Dr. Larsen presented on proximal humerus fractures and cartilage loss from shoulder arthroscopy twice at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons National Meeting. His fellowship at Duke University was on shoulder and elbow surgery as well as sports medicine. As a medical staff member, Dr. Larsen sat on the sidelines, treated every Duke player, and accompanied the football and basketball teams on trips. In San Antonio, with the Spurs medical staff.
He offers his Utah patients the most recent surgical methods reserved for elite athletes. It gives Dr. Larsen great pleasure to spend enough time with each patient to fully discuss their condition and provide options for therapy. He uses up all non-operative treatment before, if needed, surgery.