Biennial Meeting Faculty Details

Nick Mohtadi, MD MSc FRCSC DRCPSC

Medical Director University of Calgary Sport Medicine Centre
Calgary, Alberta CANADA

Nick Mohtadi MD, MSc, FRCSC, DRCPSC, Dip. Sport Med. Dr. Mohtadi is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Surgery, Cumming School of Medicine and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary. He is a clinical epidemiologist and surgeon-scientist who has been operating in the field of sport medicine and arthroscopy for 34 years. He graduated from the University of Calgary medical school in 1981, interned at Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, B.C. and finished his residency in 1987 in Calgary. He did three fellowships, in Pediatric Orthopedics (Alberta Children’s Hospital), and then with Peter Fowler (Knee surgery and sport medicine) and Richard Hawkins (Shoulder surgery) in London, Ontario. He completed his formal training with an MSc in clinical epidemiology under the supervision of Dr. Gordon Guyatt, at McMaster University in Hamilton. He has been developing patient-reported outcome measures since 1990 (ACL-QOL, RC-QOL), most recently the lead author in the development of the International Hip Outcome Tool (iHOT). He has been involved in multiple Randomized Clinical Trials as the principal investigator and collaborator. He has authored hundreds of publications and given invited talks on 5 different continents. In 1994 he represented the AOSSM as one of the travelling fellows to Europe. He was the past president (1995-96) of the Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine in (CASEM). He is presently the Chair of the Credentials Committee of CASEM and the past Chair of the Hip Groin and Thigh committee of ISAKOS. In 2017 he was part of the International Olympic Committee Consensus Meeting on ACL Injuries in Children. He has been a physician for the Canadian Olympic Team in 1996 and 2002. He was the Chief Medical Officer at the Pan Am Games in 2003. He has participated as a team physician in multiple international sporting events including Davis Cup Tennis, World Hockey Championships; Volleyball World League and World Championships, World Figure Skating and Speed skating Championships. He was with the Calgary Flames of the NHL for 20 years. He is currently the Co-Medical Director of the University of Calgary Sport Medicine Centre, a member of the Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, the McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health and Director of the Acute Knee Injury Clinic. In 2018 received the Calgary Booster Club Honoured Athletic Leader award and 2020 he was made a Life Member of CASEM. In 2024 he became the first orthopaedic surgeon in Canada to receive the designation Diplomat of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Canada with a Added Focused Competency in Sport and Exercise Medicine (DRCPSC). Also, in 2024 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Orthopaedic Association. In a former life he was a professional tennis player competing at Wimbledon in 1982 but currently is a recreational golfer and avid fly fisherman. He has been married to Anne for 40 years and has three children aged 38, 35 and 33 and two grandchildren.

10/21/2024 08:20 - 08:27	General Session	Session I: Knee ACL Lecture Long-term Follow-up of ACL Surgery Faculty
10/22/2024 11:30 - 11:37	General Session	Session VII: Knee Issues and Meniscus Case Presentations Repairing Lateral Root Meniscal Tears to the Ligament of Humphrey Faculty
10/23/2024 11:30 - 12:40	General Session	Session XI: Mixture of Topics Moderator