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Paavo R. Zakin, MD is a highly regarded orthopaedic surgeon in North Texas.   Recently retired from his private practice, his specialties include trauma, sports medicine, arthroscopy and total joint replacements, since 1982. Dr. Zakin is also a recipient of the 1992 Certificate of Achievement for his work with the United States Olympic Team Experience; A Model for Sports Medicine.  Dr. Zakin is not a "silver-spoon" surgeon; he worked on cars, professionally, for over 5 years, before medical school training, and , as a family man, continued to supplant his training stipends, by building and modifying high performance cylinder heads and engines.  In addition, Dr. Zakin spent close to three years touring with NHRA Pro Stock teams, much of that time as crew for a major, professional chassis builder.

Throughout his academic career, Dr. Zakin received numerous scholarship awards, including the Robert A. Welch Pre-doctoral Fellow and Scholarship Award from the University of Texas at San Antonio. A graduate of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, he served his internship and residency in Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas. He has published articles on sports safety and physical therapy alternatives to hip and knee replacements for senior citizens.

Dr. Zakin has been an active member of the  Texas and Southern Medical Associations, Texas and Southern Orthopedic Associations and Grayson County's Medical Society and has been an active surgical consultant to the Grayson County Rehabilitation Center Advisory Board.  He possesses Texas active medical license #H3294, as well as Oklahoma active medical license #19305, and continues an unbrokened record of over 100 Category 1 AMA credit hours/year of continuing medical education.

He is the past, 1999 "National Businessman of the Year", awarded by Congressman Ron Clark, representing the National Republican Congressional Committee.

He is also the  Past Chair-1999, of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Chapter 051.  He was most recently honored by SME, as the President's Award winner, and
honored with inclusion in the "Who's Who of Small Business Professionals".

Dr. Zakin is also the current Vice-Chair for Internal Combustion, SAE-Texas Section, where he is an active member.  He is actively co-developing a continuously variable transimission for high-powered motorsports and heavy equipment hauling, and is researching head-neck driver safety devices for race cars.  Dr. Zakin is certified in three areas of motor vehicle accident reconstruction, which is a strong avocational interest of his, especially in relation to motorsports safety issues.

He has served, since 1993, as an orthopaedic consultant and credentialed team physician, to the National Hod Rod Association, and has previously been a team physician or consulting team surgeon for numerous high school and college athletic teams in Texas, Oklahoma, and earlier in his professional career, in rural Wyoming.  From the inaugural racing event, at Texas Motor Speedway, through 2002, Dr. Zakin participated as a pit row safety and security personnel, and provided emergency trauma support services, to injured pit crew, media workers, and spectators, at the American LeMans series race, in 2001, during one of the most severe pit row accidents in motorsports history. 

Please contact Dr. Zakin at paavo@zakin.com or call #(903)815-2515