Funeral will be Wednesday for Dr. Robert W. Metcalf, known as a pioneer in the field of arthroscopic surgery and a professor in the University of Utah School of Medicine.
Dr. Metcalf, 54, who became involved in the early 1970s in the development of arthroscopy and who was well-known in conducting seminars in the field, died June 2, 1991, in Salt Lake City of complications following surgery.The funeral will be held at 1 p.m. in the Big Cottonwood 14th Ward chapel, 5165 S. Highland Drive. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Mackay Cottonwood Mortuary, 4670 Highland Drive, or from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday before the service at the church.
Dr. Metcalf received his medical degree from the U. in 1962 and completed orthopedic residencies in various area hospitals.
He began his private practice in 1969 in Provo, where he was an attending orthopedic surgeon at Utah Valley Hospital until 1979. He was consulting orthopedic surgeon for Brigham Young University from 1969 to 1975 and team orthopedic surgeon at BYU from 1969 to 1978. He was chief of the department of orthopedic surgery at Utah Valley Hospital from 1975 to 1977.
Dr. Metcalf was appointed assistant clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at the U. School of Medicine in 1972 and was subsequently named associate clinical professor and professor, a position he held at the time of his death.
Because of health problems the physician retired from clinical practice in 1986 but continued conducting seminars in arthroscopy, which attracted surgeons from throughout the world.
He served an LDS mission in California and had been bishop of the Provo Edgemont 6th Ward, a high councilor, gospel doctrine teacher and was serving in the high priests group leadership of the Big Cottonwood 14th Ward at the time of his death. (Please see obituary on B4.)