Dr. Fortunato G. Padua is an orthopaedic surgery resident in his fifth year of training at Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio. Dr. Padua received a Master's Degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2015. He then went on to receive his medical degree from Tulane University in 2019. Following medical school, he completed a one-year research fellowship at Rothman Orthopaedics in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is contracted to complete a Sports Medicine fellowship at Mississippi Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center in Jackson, Mississippi in 2026.