James Calder - UK

As a founding member of the Fortius Clinic, Professor Calder has an internationally recognised reputation in the expert treatment of sports injuries. James works with international athletes and sports professionals including Barclays Premier League soccer eams, Paris St Germain, FC Barcelona, AC Milan and Aviva Premiership rugby clubs in addition to the British Olympic team, British athletics, gymnastics, hockey, netball and sailing, England cricket, rugby and soccer. Furthermore, he regularly provides care for patients from the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden and Birmingham Royal Ballet and is Medical Advisor to Dance UK. James spent a year as foot ankle fellow to Dr Terry Saxby in Brisbane and was awarded a travelling sports orthopaedic fellowship in the USA. He was appointed Consultant at the North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke in 2002, moved to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in 2010 and is a Professor in the Department of Bioengineering Imperial College, London.James remains actively involved in research projects at the Imperial College and the Fortius Clinic. He is President of ESSKA-AFAS and immediate Past-Chairman of the Achilles Tendon Study Group. He is Specialty Editor at the Bone and Joint Journal and was Associate Editor of Knee Surgery, Sports, Traumatology and Arthroscopy (KSSTA) Journal until 2014. James served on the Clinical Studies Group for Arthritis Research UK and has done since 2011, his main areas of research include Achilles tendon, articular cartilage and sports-related ankle and foot injuries. He has developed a major clinical interest in the arthroscopic treatment (keyhole surgery) of ankle conditions and sports-related foot and ankle injuries. 

Jesse Doty - USA

Jesse Doty M.D. is a Tennessee native who grew up in Rogersville. He attended four years of medical school at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis where he graduated in 2007 with honors, including election into the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He spent the next five years completing his surgical internship and orthopaedic surgery residency at The University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga. In 2013, he completed a one-year foot and ankle surgical fellowship under the direction of renown surgeon Dr. Michael Coughlin at the Saint Alphonsus Foot and Ankle Clinic in Boise, Idaho. His experience during this fellowship year also included participation in surgery with Dr. Coughlin’s partners, Chris Hirose M.D. and Travis Kemp M.D. In the summer of 2013, after the completion of his fellowship, he spent time in Los Angeles, California with Richard Ferkel, M.D. to gain additional insight into foot and ankle sports injuries and small joint arthroscopy. His clinical interests include complex lower extremity deformities and the use of external fixation for gradual surgical correction. He has undergone training in the use of multiple external fixation systems including the Taylor Spatial Frame, and he participated in the 1st annual Taylor Spatial Frame Global Masters Forum in London, UK. His surgical interests also include sports injuries, foot and ankle arthroscopy, lower extremity fractures, chronic foot and ankle deformities, and ankle replacement. Particular to ankle replacement, he participated in the STAR Ankle Replacement Masters Forum in Chicago, IL in 2013.  Dr. Doty and Dr. Andrew Murphy of Memphis, TN are the principle investigators of a multi-center study including 15 sites across the U.S. publishing on total ankle replacement outcomes with the Infinity total ankle replacement.  Dr. Doty takes emergency call and is experienced in the treatment of orthopaedic trauma. He has published multiple peer reviewed articles and chapters in the orthopaedic literature and has participated as teaching faculty at several surgeon instruction courses.He loves to practice in Chattanooga and has partnered with the faculty of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. He strives to provide advanced and compassionate care to his patients, while contributing to the educational training of the next generation of orthopaedic surgeons. He currently serves as Director of Foot and Ankle Surgery for Erlanger University Health System and Assistant Program Director for the orthopedic surgery residency program.

Mark Glazebrook - Canada

Mark Glazebrook is a full time Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Dalhousie University with a cross appointment to the School of Biomedical Engineering. He completed his medical training in 1994 and completed specialty training in Orthopaedic Surgery in 1999 at Dalhousie.  He then went on to  complete  a  fellowship  in  Orthopedic  Foot  &  Ankleand Sports Medicine at the University of Western Ontario. This was followed with a PhD in Achilles Tendon Disease at Dalhousie University. Dr. Glazebrook devotes 80% of his working time to clinical practice focusing on Orthopedic Foot & Ankle Reconstruction and Sports Medicine During research time focus is on outcome studies on Evidence Based Medicine, Ankle Arthritis, MTP Arthritis, Bone Graft Substitutes and Achilles tendon rupture care.  He is currently President of the Canadian Orthopedic Association (COA)