Dr. Sanders is a pillar in the OTA and has influenced generations of Orthopaedic Trauma surgeons. He is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of South Florida (USF), and President of Florida Orthopaedic Institute (FOI), a group he helped found. Dr. Sanders attended medical school at New York University School of Medicine in New York City, and performed his residency at the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute, also in New York City, graduating in 1985.
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 direction of Thomas Ruedi, M.D. 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.
Dr. Sanders is a Past President of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association (2004-5) and in his clinical role, is Chief of the Department of Orthopaedics at Tampa General Hospital. He has been involved in resident and fellowship training for over thirty (30) years, culminating in being named Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at USF. He has been a past Chairman of the Committee on Trauma for both the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and for the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society. Dr. Sanders has authored over 150 articles on orthopaedic trauma, published several textbooks on orthopaedic trauma, and is previous Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma.
He has served as faculty for over 150 courses, has given over 250 lectures, and served as course Chairman for over 40 courses to train other orthopaedic surgeons, including originating the AO/ASIF Course in Foot and Ankle Trauma with Sigvard Hansen, and the Current Solutions in Orthopaedic Trauma Course, now in its 16th year. He has been an investigator in over 20 funded research studies including a landmark National Institutes of Health investigation on limb salvage, for which he was a recipient of the AAOS prestigious Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughan Award for Outstanding Orthopaedic Research in February of 2003. His special areas of expertise include acute fractures as well as reconstructive surgery of the lower extremity (complex fractures, mal/nonunions, deformity correction, post-traumatic arthritis, total ankle replacements and bone infections).
