After growing up in Pittsburgh, PA, and Annapolis, MD, Dr. Peter G. Mangone graduated magna cum laude from Davidson College in Davidson, NC, where he was a varsity letterman in baseball as well as a premed student. He attended and graduated cum laude from Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA, in 1989. He completed his internship and his orthopedic residency at Emory Affiliated Hospitals and then went on to complete his fellowship in orthopedic foot and ankle surgery at the Center For Orthopaedic Care in Cincinnati, Ohio with Dr. G. James Sammarco. Since 1999, Dr. Mangone has been in private practice with EmergeOrtho: Blue Ridge Region in Asheville and Hendersonville, NC. He is the co-director of the EmergeOrtho: Blue Ridge Region Foot and Ankle Center, which is the sole provider of fellowship-trained orthopedic foot and ankle specialists in the western North Carolina region. Dr. Mangone has been active in the AOFAS and AANA as well as local and regional medical societies throughout his career. He is the current Coding committee chairman for the AOFAS. He is the upcoming president of the North Carolina Orthopaedic Society. He serves as the marketing director for his 21 member orthopaedic group. He has served as a volunteer faculty member at the annual AANA Masters in Foot and Ankle arthroscopy course for the last five years. He is a founding member of the Ankle Instability Group, an international group of twenty orthopaedic surgeons who have devoted themselves to advancing the diagnosis, classification, and surgical treatment of ankle instability through study and publication. He is also the co-inventor of the ArthroBrostrom technique for arthroscopic lateral ankle ligament instability. He has spoken and taught numerous times both nationally and internationally about the ArthroBrostrom technique, and he is regarded as an international expert in arthroscopic ankle ligament repair and reconstruction. Dr. Mangone is an avid golfer as well as enjoys continually learning about history and political science.