Ronald A. Navarro, M.D. is the Director for Clinical Affairs at the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine (KPSOM), where he aids the medical students, with many partners, in the clinical integration of their studies into the Southern California Permanente Medical Group (SCPMG) practice via longitudinal integrated clerkships. He also has attained the academic rank of Full Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Department of Clinical Sciences at the KPSOM. He is separately also the southern California Regional Orthopaedic Chief with responsibility for orthopaedic clinical care in all of SCAL KP, in collaboration with 13 different Medical Center Ortho Chiefs since 2013. He is also now Inter-regional chief of Ortho for all the Regions of KP. He joined KP as an Orthopaedic Shoulder & Sports Medicine specialist in 1997 after a fellowship in shoulder surgery, arthroscopy, and sports medicine at University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Navarro is a proud Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and is currently a member of the AAOS Shoulder and Elbow Registry Steering Committee, the AAOS Central Instructional Course Committee, the AAOS Leadership Institute Mentoring group, and is a Member at Large for the AAOS Now Editorial Board. He is a well published author in shoulder and knee surgery and is an Active Member of the prestigious American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES). He is also proudly a member of the American Orthopaedic Association and the Twentieth Century Orthopaedic Association, with board certification and maintenance from the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (and is an examiner for the ABOS). He was honored to be appointed Member at Large of the Board of Directors of the AAOS from 2017 to 2019. He was the President of the California Orthopaedic Association (COA) for the 2019-2020 year as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded. Within KP, he was the Regional Assistant Medical Director in the Business Management Line for Retail Strategy in SCPMG where he worked to help oversee the Target Clinics operated by Kaiser Permanente (KP) as well as many other duties from 2019-2021. He was also Assistant Area Medical Director overseeing all Surgical Services at his home Medical Center in South Bay for 10 years, after having been Chief of the Department of Orthopaedics at the same Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center, for 8.5 years.