Albert W. Pearsall

Albert W. Pearsall was born in Wiesbaden, Germany to a military family. His father worked tirelessly and used his grandmother’s inheritance to send his 4 sons to Phillips Academy Andover for high school. Dr. Pearsall attended Northwestern University and Case Western Reserve Medical School, and performed an orthopaedic surgery residency and sports medicine fellowship at the University of Chicago and Duke University. He performed a mini-trauma fellowship in Hannover, Germany, under the tutelage of famed surgeon Harald Tscherne, MD. Dr. Pearsall was tenured Professor and Director of Sports Medicine at the University of South Alabama until he briefly retired in 2020 to undergo liver transplantation at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York.