Rebecca A. Cerrato MD is a highly skilled orthopedic surgeon at The Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction at Mercy Medical Center. Patients throughout Baltimore and the surrounding region seek Dr. Cerrato’s expertise and experience in offering some of the best treatments for foot and ankle injuries and conditions.

Experienced Orthopedic Surgeon, Foot and Ankle Specialist Dr. Rebecca Cerrato is Board Certified in Orthopedic Surgery and brings years of experience to her practice. She was one of the first orthopedic surgeons in the United States to perform advanced minimally invasive bunion surgery. She offers specialized care for a wide variety of foot and ankle conditions as well as advanced treatment options for complex injuries and disorders, such as:

Ankle injury, fractures and Achilles tendon problems Foot injury, flat feet and conditions affecting the heel and toes Complex conditions requiring foot and ankle reconstruction.

Dr. Chaytor graduated from Memorial University Medical School in 1986. She completed a Mixed Internship at the Montreal General Hospital in 1987 and an orthopaedic residency at Dalhousie University in 1992.

She then completed a 5 month clinical fellowship in Trauma and reconstruction at Dalhousie University, a 1 year fellowship in Foot and ankle surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and a 3 month fellowship in Orthotics and Prosthetics at the University of Montreal.

She has been an attending orthopaedic surgeon at the Jewish General Hospital since 1997. She is the Fellowship Director for the Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Teaching Unit and Fellowship. She is an Associate Professor of Surgery at McGill University and Chair of the Orthopaedic Competency Committee.

She is currently the Chief of Surgical Services at the Jewish General Hospital.

She has won many awards including the Kathryn Rolph Award in 2000 in recognition of her contribution to the advancement of women in the department of surgery; The Harvey H. Sigman Award in 2014 in recognition of excellence in undergraduate teaching; and the Robert Turcotte Award in 2018 for Altruistic Physician Care.

Dr. Da Cunha obtained her medical education at the University of Calgary where she completed both medical school and Orthopaedic Surgery residency training. After graduating from residency, Dr. Da Cunha pursued fellowship training in Foot and Ankle Surgery at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Following this, she completed further subspecialty fellowship training in Limb Lengthening and Complex Deformity Reconstruction Surgery at Hospital for Special Surgery. Dr. Da Cunha is currently in practice at Kingston Health Sciences Centre, and an assistant professor at Queen’s University, where she specializes in Foot and Ankle Surgery, as well as Trauma Reconstruction Surgery and Complex Deformity Reconstruction.

Dr. Christopher Del Balso attended medical school at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He completed his orthopaedic residency at Western University in London, Ontario. Following residency, Dr. Del Balso completed subspecialty fellowship training in Foot and Ankle Reconstruction at the University of Toronto, and Orthopaedic Trauma at Western University.

Dr. James K. DeOrio is currently a Professor of Orthopedics at Duke University. He is currently the Director of the Foot and Ankle Fellowship at at Duke University and was Chairman of the Orthopedic Department at the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida for over 15 years. He is a 1977 graduate of the George Washington University Medical School, trained at the Mayo Clinic and performed an AO fellowship in Chur, Switzerland.

Dr. DeOrio is a frequent contributor to orthopedic research with over 140 original articles and book chapters and is Associate Professor of Orthopedics at the Mayo Clinic (Emeritus). He is also coauthor of the textbook, Technique Manual for Total Ankle Arthroplasty. From the AOFAS he is the recipient of the J. Leonard Goldner Basic Science Award and is a two time winner of the Roger Mann Award for Clinical Science.

He does the full complement of foot and ankle surgery from bunions and hammertoes to ankle replacements. In recognition of his achievements he has been recognized as being in the Top 1% in the nation in the foot and ankle specialty and Top 20 Surgeons in North Carolina, Feb 2012 and elected by his peers in US News as one of the The 23 Top Foot & Ankle Surgeons in the U.S., 2012. A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1970 and proud former member of the Falcon football team, Dr. DeOrio is also a retired Colonel in the US Air Force.

Orthopedic Residency University of British Columbia. Foot and ankle fellowship University of Toronto with Dr. Daniels. Practices in Victoria, B.C. Current section head, division of orthopedics, Victoria. Active with the Canadian Orthopedic Association and The British Columbia Orthopedic Association.

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 & Ankle and 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)

Dr. Gordon Goplen is currently appointed as Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry.

Dr. Meulenkamp completed his medical studies at the University of Calgary, followed by his residency training at the University of Ottawa. He then undertook a year of fellowship training in both Orthopaedic Trauma and Foot and Ankle reconstruction. Dr. Meulenkamp joined The Ottawa Hospital-Civic Campus, focusing his patient care on a full range of forefoot, hindfoot and ankle pathology as well as acute fracture care and post-traumatic reconstruction. Dr. Meulenkamp is concurrently completing a Masters of Clinical Epidemiology through the University of Ottawa with a focus on research methodology, clinical trials, and knowledge translational research.

Dr. Murray J. Penner, MD, FRCSC is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of British Columbia and the Head of the Regional Department of Orthopaedics, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority & Providence Health Care. He is also the Head of the Department of Orthopaedics at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver and a Past-President of the Canadian Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (COFAS). His full-time academic subspecialty practice is focused on adult orthopaedic foot and ankle reconstruction with particular interests in complex deformity correction and total ankle replacement design.

Areas of specialty: Sport Medicine, Knee, Foot and Ankle

Dr. Andrea Veljkovic is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia. She is the Fellowship Director for the Adult Foot and Ankle Reconstruction Fellowship program and Research Director of the UBC Orthopaedics training program. Dr. Veljkovic has been in full time academic subspecialty surgical practice for more than ten years. Her particular interests are in joint preservation and lower extremity sport injuries and arthroscopy. She maintains a sport knee and sport foot and ankle affiliation with the UBC varsity sport teams. Her particular interests are in cutting edge surgical techniques, realignment procedures, and biologics interventions joint preservation of the knee, foot and ankle through the use of minimally invasive techniques.

Professional Highlights

Dr. Veljkovic has received numerous awards for teaching and education, including the UBC Teaching Award. She was the recipient of two prestigious orthopaedic travelling fellowship awards from the Canadian and American Orthopaedic Associations. She has published over 60 scientific papers and has lectured extensively. Recently, her research was nominated as a finalist for the AOFAS Leonard Goldner and Roger Mann Awards.

Post-Secondary Education

• University of Alberta
  B.Comm (Hons)
  1999
• University of Alberta
  MD
  2004
• QE II Health Sciences Centre
  Orthopaedic Residency
  2008
• University of British Columbia
  Postgraduate Fellowship Training: Arthroscopy and Athletic Injuries (Knee and Shoulder)
  2010
• Postgraduate Fellowship Training: Lower Extremity Sports and Foot & Ankle Reconstruction
• Harvard University
  MPH
  2015

Research Interests:

• Joint preservation techniques and arthroscopy,
• Early knee and ankle arthritis epidemiology,
• Foot and Ankle surgery clinical outcomes.

Dr. Volesky completed medical school and Orthopaedic residency in 2003 at McGill University in Montreal. This was followed by a year of fellowship in Sports and Arthroscopic Surgery at the University of Ottawa and another fellowship year in Foot and Ankle Surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, NY. Dr. Volesky started her Foot and Ankle/Lower extremity Sports Orthopaedic Surgery practice at the Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, in 2005. She is Assistant Professor of Surgery at McGill University, Montreal, and co-director of the McGill Orthopaedic residency Foot and Ankle Rotation and the Foot and Ankle Fellowship. Her clinical interests include foot & ankle Arthritis, deformity reconstruction, foot & ankle arthroscopy and sports injuries. In addition to her clinical practice, she has been involved in teaching surgical skills to learners and attending surgeons across Canada and North America, including yearly lab courses run by the Arthroscopy Association of North America and the Canadian Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society, as well as founding and co-directing the Annual Remembrance Day McGill University/Universite de Montreal Arthroscopy Course since 2005. Dr. Volesky is currently president of the Canadian Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (COFAS) and has previously been involved in the COA nominating and membership committees. She is also president of the Medical Education Committee of the Quebec Orthopaedic Association, responsible for all the educational content and continuing medical education of her Quebec Orthopaedic colleagues. For the past 7 years, Dr. Volesky has been an Examiner at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Orthopaedics), and more recently, has been a reviewer of manuscripts for the American Journal of Sports Medicine and Foot and Ankle International.

I am full time academic adult foot and ankle surgeon. As a founding member of the Canadian Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society research team evaluating the outcomes from the surgical treatment of endstage anklke arthritis, I have had a longstanding interest in how we evaluate patients health states both before and after surgery.

More recently I have had the pleasure of working closely with Dr Jason Sutherland at the UBC school of public health and have been a successful CIHR funded co-investigator with him (CIHR 2014).We have numerous publication that carefully explore how patient reported outcomes can help us better understand the patient experience around surgery.

Our collaborative research into how patient reported health states change while undergoing surgery for degenerative foot and ankle conditions has added high quality peer reviewed evidence to the body of literature that demonstrates the importance of reconstructive surgery for foot and ankle conditions in our society.

Dr. Alastair Younger grew up near St. Andrews in Scotland and completed his medical degree in Aberdeen in 1985 and trained for a short time in the National Health Service before moving to Canada to do a Masters in Kinesiology at Simon Fraser University. He completed his residency at the University of British Columbia and a Masters in Surgery at the same time between 1990 and 1995. After a fellowship in Arthritis surgery at Harvard in Boston in 1997, Dr. Younger went to Seattle to do a fellowship in foot and ankle. He then returned to UBC and St. Pauls in 1998 to take over the role of teaching residents foot and ankle surgery.

In 2000 Dr Younger began a fellowship training program for foot and ankle surgery, and worked with the hospital to secure funds to start the foot and ankle clinic. In 2004 the team and Dr. Younger was awarded the 3 M award for quality improvement in health care for the foot and ankle clinic development and pathways. Dr. Younger was a founding member of the Canadian Orthopaedic Foot and ankle society in 2002 and president between 2006 and 2008. He started the Orthopaedic research office at Providence in 2002 has been actively involved in research since. Dr. Younger was the founding head of the division of distal extremities at the University.

Dr. Younger has been a North American Travelling Fellow, an American British Canadian (ABC) travelling fellow, and has been awarded the Roger Mann award by the AOFAS as well as obtaining the 3 M award. Dr. Younger is active in foot and ankle surgery and has been working on developing foot and ankle arthroscopy. He teaches as a Master instructor for the Arthroscopy Association of North America and gives talks nationally and internationally on foot and ankle surgery

Dr. Tim R. Daniels obtained is an alumnus of University of Saskatchewan who went on to complete a F&A fellowship with Drs. J. Smith and L. Fleming at Emory University and an additional 3 months at the Milwaukee County Medical Complex with Drs. J. Gould and G. Harris in their gait mechanics lab. In 1993 he began his F&A practice at Wellesley Hospital in Toronto and, in 1994, established a multi-disciplinary Foot Clinic.

Presently, he is Full Professor, Head of the U of T F&A Program, and Head of Orthopaedic Division at St. Michael’s Hospital. He serves as Associate Editor at Foot and Ankle International and Reviewer for JBJS (Am) and Journal of American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.

As Canada’s top Orthopaedic F&A surgeon, other orthopaedists send their most complex and challenging foot and ankle cases to him and he trains students from all over the world. His surgical skills and research publications have placed him in the top 16 of World’s best F&A surgeons by Orthopaedics This Week.

Dr. Sagar J. Desai is a certified orthopaedic surgeon with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC). He began his education at Western University in London, Ontario, where he completed his Honours Bachelor of Science (HBSc) degree in Kinesiology. He then completed his Medical Degree (MD) at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario.

Dr. Desai subsequently attended Western University for his Orthopaedic Surgery residency. He completed his residency in 2013 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada (FRCSC). During his residency, Dr. Desai concurrently completed a Masters in Science (MSc) in Medical Biophysics. This Masters focused on orthopaedic biomechanics, joint kinematics and surgical implant design.

Following his residency Dr. Desai completed two accredited sub-specialty fellowships. His first fellowship was completed in Foot and Ankle Reconstruction at the University of Toronto. His second was an AO Trauma accredited fellowship in Orthopaedic Trauma at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto.

Dr. Desai is currently a Trauma/Foot and Ankle surgeon at Humber River Hospital in Toronto.

Mansur Halai is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto. He specialises in Major Trauma and Foot & Ankle Reconstruction. He has completed Trauma Fellowships in Calgary, Cape Town and Blantyre, Malawi. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, along with other academic appointments held at the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee. His research interests are in ankle arthroplasty, minimally invasive surgery and database collaboration.

Dr. Sam Park is Assistant Professor and Surgeon-Investigator in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. His specialized clinical focus is in the management of adult foot and ankle conditions. These include the early to end-stage arthritis, deformity correction, cartilage lesions, tendon disorders, athletic injuries, factures and trauma, and the foot and ankle sequelae from systemic conditions and neurological disorders. Academic interests include clinical epidemiology and outcomes research on the treatment of various foot and ankle disorders and pathology; and translational science research related to foot and ankle arthritis and joint preservation.

Dr. Xing is a subspecialty trained orthopaedic surgeon with special interest in foot and ankle surgery. As an active staff surgeon at Orillia Soldier’s Memorial Hospital, his clinical practices covers general adult and paediatric orthopaedic trauma as well as adult hip and knee arthritis. Dr. Xing’s clinical interests in foot and ankle pathology includes hindfoot deformity and arthritis, ankle instability, forefoot deformity, minimally invasive foot and ankle surgery, sports injuries, diabetic feet, and complex foot and ankle trauma.

His journey in foot and ankle education started in the University of Toronto Orthopaedic Residency training program and continued on to the Sydney Foot and Ankle Orthopaedic Surgery Fellowship. After a year abroad learning how international surgeons approached orthopaedic foot and ankle problems, Dr. Xing came back to Toronto and spent another year with his mentors in the University of Toronto Foot and Ankle Fellowship Program. Dr. Xing continues his life-long orthopaedic education as an active member of the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society, Canadian Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society, and Canadian Orthopaedic Association.