Chief Medical Officer
Christopher J. Centeno, M.D. is a specialist in regenerative medicine and the new field of Interventional Orthopedics. He is board certified in physical medicine/rehabilitation and in pain management through the American Board of Anesthesia.
Dr. Centeno is one of the few physicians in the world with extensive experience in the culture expansion of and clinical use of adult stem cells to treat orthopedic injuries. He is CEO of Regenerative Sciences. His medical group, operates the world’s largest and oldest stem cell treatment registry focused in the field of orthopedic and musculoskeletal injuries. His clinic incorporates a variety of pain management techniques and he treats patients from all over the world who travel to Colorado to under-go innovative, non-surgical treatments. Dr. Centeno’s clinical practice in Colorado (The Centeno-Schultz Clinic) has a state of the art cell biology research lab and a clinical research arm. He runs clinical and lab based cell biology research teams that are privately funded through the funding of high net worth individuals.
Dr. Centeno has chaired multiple international research based conferences. He also maintains an active research based practice, producing multiple publications per year that are listed in the US National Library of Medicine. Dr. Centeno has also served as editor-in-chief of a medical research journal dedicated to traumatic injury and serves as a peer reviewer for multiple research publications. He has lectured all over the world on regenerative therapies including twice at the Vatican in Rome.
Dr. Centeno trained at the Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Medical Center and the Institute for Rehabilitation Research. He hails from both Florida and New York and currently resides in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and three children.