USA Health welcomes new orthopaedic surgeon
Price Sessums, M.D., will provide orthopaedic surgical care with a focus on sports medicine; arthroscopic surgery of the knee, shoulder, and hip; and shoulder arthroplasty.
By Carol McPhail
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USA Health has expanded its orthopaedic and sports medicine practices with the addition of Price Sessums, M.D., a fellowship-trained orthopaedic and sports medicine surgeon.
He will provide orthopaedic surgical care with a focus on sports medicine; arthroscopic surgery of the knee, shoulder, and hip; and shoulder arthroplasty. He will see patients at USA Health Sports Medicine on the Providence Hospital campus.
USA Health is the official provider of sports medicine services to the South Alabama Jaguars, many Mobile County public high schools, the Mobile Ballet and St. Luke’s Episcopal School. Sessums served as head team physician at Chickasaw High School in 2023 and Faith Academy in 2024.
“I bring with me the relationships developed with players, parents, athletic trainers and coaches from around the Mobile high school and college sports landscape,” he said. “I have had diverse orthopaedic training opportunities throughout the country covering sports ranging from Little League to Division I collegiate athletes.”
Sessums holds a faculty appointment as an assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama. “I look forward to working with, teaching and training orthopaedic surgery residents at USA Health,” he said.
A native of Brookhaven, Mississippi, Sessums earned his medical degree from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in Jackson. He completed residency training in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Florida / Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville and a fellowship in orthopaedic sports medicine at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
He is an author of several publications and has presented orthopaedic-related research at regional and national conferences.
Sessums describes the field of orthopaedics – and specifically, sports medicine – as ever changing. “Keeping up with the latest surgical techniques and orthopaedic literature will continue to guide my practice both now and into the future,” he said.
