John A. Reister, M.D.

“I believe the most important thing is to take compassionate, appropriate care of my patients. I would rather have people understand that I would like to help people rather than that I trained well. Medicine is fun, because you can have relationships with people.

"It was great to serve as a military field surgeon before entering my residency at Fitzsimmons hospital. One can still feel a little altruism about serving our country.”

Dr. John Reister completed his undergraduate studies at Towson State University in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from East Tennessee State University.

After completing his surgical internship at FitzsimonsArmy Medical Center, he served a year a field surgeon before entering his orthopaedic residency at Fitzsimons. His orthopaedic program also included specialty training in children’s orthopaedics at The Children’s Hospital in Denver.

After completing his residency, Dr. Reister went on to serve as a staff orthopaedic surgeon at Fort Hood, Texas and Associate Clinical Professor of Orthopaedics at Brooke Army Medical Center, before concluding an 11-year Army career at Sky Ridge Medical Center.

He is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. He is also a member of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society, the Colorado Medical Society, the Western Orthopaedic Association, and the Society of Military Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Dr. Reister is a general orthopaedic surgeon, whose interests focus on sports medicine arthroscopy, in particular knee and shoulder surgery.

Dr. Reister is on Staff at Swedish Medical Center, Porter Adventist Hospital, and Littleton Adventist Hospital. He works primarily out of the Swedish Southwest Healthpark location in Littleton but also has scheduled office hours at the Swedish Medical Center campus and the Littleton Adventist Hospital campus.

His non-professional interests include family, golf, swimming, skiing, and the arts.