Seattle Orthopedic and Fracture Clinic also welcomes Dr. Maxine Weyant as a sports medicine physician. Dr. Weyant has practiced in Seattle as a family physician with a subspecialty in sports medicine since completing 1989. She received her residency training in family medicine at Swedish Hospital in Seattle, and is a board-certified family physician with additional Certification of Qualification in Sports Medicine awarded jointly by the American Boards of Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics.

Originally from Highland Park, Illinois, Dr. Weyant graduated from Southern Illinois University with high honors (Phi Beta Kappa.) She attended medical school at the University of Iowa where she was awarded a fellowship in medical journalism as well as a fellowship to study medicine at Oxford University. She also received awards for both creative writing and for journalism.

In addition to her sports medicine interests, Dr. Weyant has also had a strong interest in international health and tropical medicine. In medical school, she was president of the local chapter of the American Medical Student Association and active in the International Health Task Force both locally and nationally. She travelled to Central America in 1983 as part of a public health tour and spent two months working with the White Mountain Apache Tribe in Arizona in 1985. During her time at Oxford she also studied at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

A former dancer and choreographer, experienced rock and alpine mountaineer, and avid runner, Dr. Weyant brings to her practice a keen understanding of sport-specific injuries, strength and flexibility training, and conditioning issues. She is also Team Physician for the Reign, Seattle's professional women's basketball team.

Her sports medicine practice addresses not only the musculoskeletal but also the "medicine" side of sports medicine, which includes a wide array of problems such as asthma, endurance, amenorrhea, eating disorders, and nutrition in both adults and children. As a non-surgical practitioner of sports medicine, she approaches musculoskeletal injuries utilizing a wide array of conservative options and treatment strategies. As a family physician, she performs pre-participation screening exams for school sports and is quite experienced in searching for and ruling out occult causes of musculoskeletal symptoms, such as infection, immune and inflammatory diseases, and cancer. She also addresses the psychosocial issues that may serve as factors in and barriers to patients' recovery.

She is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Sports Medicine, Puget Sound Spine Interest Group, King County Medical Society, among others.

She is married to Jackson Schmidt, an attorney, who is co-president of the Pike Place Market Foundation and active in several other non-profit organizations. They have lived in Seattle since 1986.