Northern Kentucky University Sports Medicine

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is a proud partner of Norse Nation, bringing the best care to students, athletes and fans. Providing athletic training services to Norse Athletics, as well as throughout campus, is just the start. That same knowledge and care that drives our athletic training care for NKU Athletics and students are available to all of Norse Nation through St. Elizabeth Healthcare Sports Medicine and our affiliated orthopaedic surgeons from OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine. Norse up!

Dr. Bilbo treats a wide range of orthopaedic problems of the shoulder, elbow, arm, knee, leg, ankle and foot. He has extensive experience with sports injuries to those areas. He specializes in treatment of knee injuries especially ACL and meniscus damage and shoulder injuries including dislocation and labral tears in the athlete and non-athlete using advanced techniques in minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery. His specialization includes comprehensive care of athletes and whenever possible provides nonsurgical treatment and rehabilitation of injuries. He applies the same “state of the art” approach to the everyday athlete and injury as he does to his highly competitive athletes.

Dr. Forest T. Heis was raised in Cincinnati, OH. He received his B.A. degree from Stanford University and his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He completed his internship in general surgery and a residency in orthopaedic surgery at Duke University. He also completed a fellowship in sports medicine at the Orthopaedic Specialty Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT. He is certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.