Prof Dr Carlos Leal
Orthopedic Surgeon MD from El Bosque University in Bogotá. Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomechanics and Orthopedic Research at Harvard University. Knee surgeon at the Hospital for Joint Diseases at NYU and Aspen Valley Clinic, specializing in arthroscopic and reconstructive knee surgery for sports injuries. ISMST instructor and international leader in regenerative orthopedics, focused on mechanotransduction and osteoarticular orthobiologic therapies. Full professor at the School of Medicine at El Bosque University. Former president and board member of the Colombian Society of Arthroscopy and Sports Traumatology SOCARTD. Former president and current Scientific Secretary of the International Society for Medical Shockwave Treatments (ISMST). Former president and board member of the Hispano American Association of Football Medicine HISPAMEF. Director of the Fenway Medical Center for Regenerative Orthopedics in Bogotá. A pioneer of ESWT in Latin America, he was the first physician to apply shockwave treatments on an orthopedic patient in August 2000 in Bogotá.