Kenneth Estrera, MD

Kenneth Estrera, MD is an adult joint reconstruction surgeon with Apex Orthopedics and serves as the Medical Director of Orthopedic Surgery at Medical City Frisco. Prior to joining Apex Orthopedics, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center where he served as Medical Director for the Joint Reconstruction Service. He specializes in hip and knee replacement, minimally invasive knee replacement, anterior hip replacement, partial knee replacement, and complex and revision joint reconstruction with additional expertise in the management of periprosthetic joint infections.

He was born and raised in Dallas, Texas where he graduated from Lake Highlands High School. He was recruited to play football at Yale University where he received a degree in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology while earning All-Ivy League honors as an inside linebacker. He received his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, where he was also awarded a National Institutes of Health research grant and the C. Frank Webber Prize for his research on diabetes and orthopaedic injuries in college athletics. Dr. Estrera completed an orthopaedic surgery residency at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and received the Vert Mooney Award for Academic Achievement. During his residency he served as a specialist registrar on the joint arthroplasty service at Norfolk and Norwich University in England. He completed his adult joint reconstruction fellowship at the nationally recognized Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. While in fellowship he trained with world-renowned surgeons and he received specialized training in minimally invasive joint replacement and complex joint reconstruction. Dr. Estrera returned to Dallas to join the UT Southwestern faculty before starting Apex Orthopedics with Dr. Mohammed Khaleel. His wife Sarah practices Maternal Fetal Medicine at UT Southwestern/Parkland Memorial Hospital and they have two young boys named Sam and Charlie. Dr. Estrera is the 2007 World Hog Wrestling Champion.