About Vert Mooney, MD

Dr. Vert Mooney passed away in October 2009. For more than 40 years, Dr. Mooney was highly respected by his peers as an orthopaedic surgeon and leader in orthopaedic research. Most of his work was considered ground-breaking, particularly in the area of restorative exercise and physical medicine.

Dr. Mooney received his Orthopedic Surgery training at the University of Pittsburgh between 1960 and 1964, after earning his Medical Doctorate in 1957 from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Mooney was Board Certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1967 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

He was named one of the 20 most distinguished Orthopedic Surgeons in the Town & Country Magazine Annual Survey in 1989. Among other academic positions, he was professor and Chairman of the Division of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas, TX and Professor in the Department of Orthopedics at the University of California, San Diego.

He also served an appointment by Governor Pete Wilson to the California Industrial Medical Council and was integral in developing the functional capacity evaluation standards for the state. Dr. Mooney was the recipient of the 2008 Wiltse Lifetime Achievement Award in Lumbar Spine Research from the International Society for the Study of Lumbar Spine presented in Geneva, Switzerland. He was Medical Director and a founder of MDRS / Spine and Sport and the President of the Spine and Sport Foundation.