Sierra Park Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Service

We understand what it takes to meet the special needs of athletes of all ages and levels.  Our sports medicine team specializes in athletic injuries, arthroscopic surgery, and fractures. We offer a wide array of medical services and management for the following conditions:

- General orthopedics
- Fellowship specialty training in athletic injuries, shoulders and knees
- ACL reconstruction
      - Arthroscopic surgery
- Fracture care
- Joint replacement

 
Our Clinicians

Jack Perry, M.D., joined the Mammoth Hospital team in 2000.  Dr. Perry received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan; in 1991, he graduated
summa cum laude from the University of Michigan Medical School.  He completed a specialty fellowship in athletic injuries, focusing on shoulders and knees, and completed his surgical internship from the San Diego Naval Medical Center.  His tour of duty included Flight Surgeon training in Pensacola, Florida, before being assigned for one year as the Senior Medical Officer and Flight Surgeon at 29 Palms. During his four years with the Navy, Dr. Perry worked as a family practitioner in the emergency department. After completing his time with the Navy, he moved to Hawaii to attend the University of Hawaii Orthopedic Residency training program. He finished his fellowship training in sports medicine with an emphasis in shoulder and knees at Duke University. Dr. Perry is a team physician for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team. He is also a designated physician faculty member for the University of Nevada School of Medicine training medical students in trauma and sports medicine.

Mike Karch, M.D., joined the Sierra Park Orthopedics and Sports Medicine clinic in 2003. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Delaware where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. He received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine where he was inducted to the Alpha Honor Medical Society. Dr. Karch completed his orthopedic surgical residency at the Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. following a general surgical internship at Loma Linda University Medical Center, in Loma Linda, California. He then completed his orthopedic fellowship training in sports medicine at the Taos Orthopedic Institute in Taos, New Mexico, where he specialized in advanced arthroscopic surgery of the shoulder and knee as well as the treatment of ski and snowboard trauma. Dr. Karch is a designat3ed physician faculty member for the University of Nevada School of Medicine training medical students in orthopedic trauma and sports medicine. In addition, he currently serves as a team physician for both the United States Ski and Snowboard Teams.

On September 11, 2001, Dr. Karch uniquely experienced both the Pentagon and World Trade Center terrorist attacks. After triaging patients from the Pentagon disaster at Georgetown that fateful morning, he boarded a train for New York City and became one of the first physicians on-site at Ground Zero. In addition to search and rescue, he helped establish "Ground Zero MASH Unit West," an ad-hoc, on-site emergency unit. HE manned that post from September 11-14, 2001. He has become a written authority on mass disaster medical triage.

Dr. Karch true passion in life is ultra-distance athletics. He has competed in over 50 regular-length marathons, numerous 50-mile footraces and Ironman distance triathlons, and completed numerous 100-mile
ultra-marathons. He is a two time finisher in the Badwater Ultramarathon, a 135-mile extreme footrace across Death Valley to Mount Whitney. In addition to ultra-distance running, he enjoys competitive Nordic skiing, mountain bike racing, and whitewater kayaking. He is accompanied by his wife Kim Escudero, M.D.,
board-certified pediatrician practicing at the Sierra Park Pediatric clinic. The couple resided in Mammoth Lakes and have a Mammoth-born daughter, Mia Rose.

Richard Price, M.D., joined the Sierra Park Orthopedics and Sports Medicine clinic as well as the Sierra Park Family Medicine clinic at Mammoth Hospital in 2004. Dr. Price moved to Mammoth from Salt Lake City, Utah. He earned his bachelor's degree in science with an emphasis in biology from Colorado State University, and completed his residency and fellowship training at the University of Utah. He received his medical degree from Georgetown University. His area of focus is family practice and non-operative sports and medicine and orthopedics. "I look forward to becoming a part of the community and building a long-term doctor/patient relationship for years to come," says Dr. Price. He is accompanied by his wife Katie Price, M.D., a pediatrician at Sierra Park Pediatric Clinic.