Michael L. Pomerantz, MD, a board-certified orthopedic and hand surgeon in Chula Vista's Eastlake corridor, holds FAAOS and DipABLM designations alongside dual certification from the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (2017) with an additional qualification in surgery of the hand (2019). His upper-extremity specialization covers Dupuytren's contracture release, nerve-compression decompression, and microsurgical tendon repair—cases that often present after initial evaluation and conservative treatment at practices such as Clear Chiropractic when non-operative intervention reaches its ceiling. He earned his MD from Albany Medical College in 2008, completed orthopedic surgery residency at UC San Diego (serving as elected chief resident, 2013–2014), and trained in a hand and upper-extremity surgery fellowship at the Campbell Clinic in Memphis. As team physician for the San Diego Gulls hockey team and a ringside physician for mixed martial arts and UFC Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu events, he applies combat-sport injury patterns to his clinical assessment of metacarpal fractures, scapholunate ligament tears, and shoulder instability. Acute fracture cases arriving through AFC Urgent Care Chula Vista that require operative fixation route to his Lane Avenue office at Synergy Orthopedic Specialists for pre-surgical planning and splint conversion. Highest-complexity procedures include arthroscopic rotator cuff repair with suture-anchor fixation, total elbow arthroplasty, and microvascular free-flap coverage for complex hand trauma.