Dr. Jobe was co-founder of the Kerlan-Jobe Sports Medicine Orthopedic Group. He is best known for the “Tommy John” surgery. Tommy John was a MLB pitcher who reaped the benifits of Dr. Jobes’ first surgery followed by thousands of athletes.
Dr. Jobe was intimately involved in planning the Wright Balance® research. He provided his Biomechanics lab and 4 biomedical technicians at Centinela Hospital in Los Angeles for the four years the study ran.