James Calder (surgeon)

James Calder (born 22 February 1968) is an English orthopaedic surgeon specialising in sporting injuries. He has built a reputation for treating foot and ankle injuries in top international athletes - soccer players from the English Premier League and European clubs including AC Milan, Barcelona FC, Real Madrid, Olympique de Marseille FC in addition to rugby players from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, GB Olympic team, England and Indian cricket teams and UK Athletics.^[1] He is the Medical Advisor to Dance UK and has often treated members of the Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet as well as artists from Cirque du Soleil.^[2]

After the Leys School in Cambridge, Calder graduated from The London Hospital Medical College in 1991 and passed FRCS in 1995. He was awarded the Laming Evans Research Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons in England and awarded a Doctorate of Medicine from London University in 2001 and FRCS(Tr & Orth) the same year.^[3] He worked in Australia for a year and subsequently in the USA following the award of a travelling Fellowship. He was made a Fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 2007.

He has been actively involved in research and teaching collaborating with universities in USA, Europe and Singapore.^[4] Calder was appointed a consultant at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London and he was made Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London.^[5] He has authored and edited several books, chapters and original papers related to the advancement of understanding sporting foot and ankle, tendon and cartilage injuries. Calder is vice-president of AFAS in the European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA), chairman of the International Achilles Tendon Study Group and co-founder of the Fortius Clinic, London.^[6][7] He is Associate Editor of the Bone and Joint Journal and former Associate Editor of Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology and Arthroscopy (KSSTA) Journal.^[8][9]

Calder saw active military service in Northern Ireland, the Balkans and Middle East. He continued an interest in humanitarian aid through the Leonard Cheshire Centre for Conflict Relief and he worked in Sri Lanka following the tsunami in 2004 and subsequently assisted medical aid workers in the Pakistan earthquake of 2005.^[10] He has a keen recreational interest in sports and outside pursuits in remote and challenging environments (he contributed to the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine, 2009). He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and keeps a small herd of Dexter cattle in Hampshire.

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