Dr. T. Sean Lynch is serving as the team physician for the U.S. Men’s National Team for the first time in 2022.

The Omaha, Neb., native is currently a senior staff surgeon at Henry Ford Health in Detroit and vice chair of academic affairs for the department of orthopedic surgery. He specializes in the nonoperative and operative treatment of hip and knee disorders in athletes of all levels, and is an expert in hip surgery and knee ligament reconstruction with minimally invasive and arthroscopic techniques.

A past competitive ice hockey player, Lynch is currently the head team physician for the Detroit Lions and has previously served as a team physician for the New York Yankees, New York City Football Club (Major League Soccer) and Fordham University. He has also served as team physician for Four/Five Nations Cup tournaments in Russia in 2017 and 2020 for the U.S. Under-17 National Team part of USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program.

He received a bachelor’s degree in biology and his medical degree from Georgetown University. Lynch was a resident in orthopedic surgery at Northwestern University in Chicago and completed his orthopedic sports medicine fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic where he received the prestigious Herodicus Society North American Traveling Fellowship. The Fellowship allowed him to work with hip arthroscopists and knee ACL and articular cartilage specialists across the United States.

Lynch has won numerous research and education awards and lectures nationally and internationally on sports hip and knee injuries.