Roy Sanders, MD

Dr. Sanders has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board since January of 2013. He specializes in trauma and post-traumatic reconstruction, as well as foot and ankle surgery.  Since January of 1995, he has been the President and Chairman of the Board of the Florida Orthopedic Institute (an organization he co-founded). Since 1991, he has also been the Director of Orthopedic Trauma Service, Director of the Fellowship in Orthopedic Trauma, and Chief of the Department of Orthopedics at Tampa General Hospital. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Florida Institute of Surgical Subspecialties since January of 1993.

Dr. Sanders assisted in the development of instruments and implants (plates) for calcaneal fractures, fractures of the distal tibia and the fibula, as well as a complete lower extremity intramedullary nailing system in conjunction with Dr. Toney Russell, MD of Memphis, Tennessee.  His name appears on over 20 issued patents, with additional patent submissions pending.  Dr. Sanders is the past President of the Orthopedic Trauma Association and past Chairman of the Committee on Trauma for both the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society.

Dr. Sanders attended medical school at the New York University School of Medicine in New York City.  He then performed his residency at the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopedic Institute in New York City.  Dr. Sanders received fellowship training in musculoskeletal trauma at Vanderbilt University Medical School, and then went on to obtain the AO/ASIF Jack McDaniels Memorial Trauma Fellowship, which he completed under the tutelage of Thomas Ruedi, MD in Chur, Switzerland.  Upon his return, he spent several months with Sigvard Hansen as a foot and ankle fellow at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington.

Dr. Sanders has authored over 100 articles and abstracts on orthopedic trauma and is presently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Orthopedic Trauma.  He has served as faculty for over 160 courses and has given over 200 lectures.  In addition, he serves as course chairman for 41 courses to train orthopedic surgeons.  He has been an investigator in research studies, including a National Institute of Health investigation on limb salvage, for which he received the prestigious Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughan Award for Outstanding Orthopedic Research in February of 2003.