Dr. Richard Santore is a Harvard University-trained orthopaedic surgeon with fellowships in total hip, total knee, and osteotomy surgery from Harvard University and AO of Switzerland. He served as Chief Resident of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been affiliated continuously, since completion of post-graduate and fellowship training, with the Orthopaedic Medical Group of San Diego. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the first medical school to train doctors in the United States. Dr. Santore is the Chief of Staff-Elect of Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego and a Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, President of the California Orthopaedic Association, President of the Western Orthopaedic Association, President of the San Diego Surgical Society, Division Chief of Adult Reconstruction of UCSD, Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery of Sharp Memorial Hospital, and President of the San Diego Chapter of the Western Orthopaedic Association. He is also the co-director of the San Diego Fellowship in Adult Reconstruction Surgery.