James L. Carey, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the Director of the Penn Center for Advanced Cartilage Repair and Osteochondritis Dissecans Treatment. He is the Fellowship Director for the Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowship at Penn. He serves as the Head Team Orthopaedic Surgeon for the Philadelphia Flyers professional ice hockey club.
Since 2014, Dr. Carey has served as Associate Editor for Epidemiology and Statisticsfor the American Journal of Sports Medicine. In 2016 and 2017, he served as
President of the Research in OsteoChondritis of the Knee (ROCK) group, which includes about three dozen orthopaedic surgeons and scientists at centers across
the United States, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Japan, and Singapore. He has given more than 75 national and international presentations, authored more than 125
scientific articles and book chapters, and edited a text on osteochondritis dissecans. He is honored to have served on the workgroups that formulated the American
Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Clinical Practice Guidelines that guide the treatment of two conditions — osteochondritis dissecans and anterior cruciate ligament injury.