Dr. Franck Accadbled, MD, Ph.D. is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Hospital Center University De Toulouse. His clinical interests are in pediatric orthopedics and trauma, especially in the lower limb, sports injuries, limb lengthening, and growing spine deformities. His research interests are focused on biomechanics.
He qualified from the Toulouse School of Medicine and he became Specialist Registrar at Toulouse University Hospital. He was trained as an Orthopedic surgeon specializing in Knee Arthroscopy, then accomplished a clinical fellowship in pediatric orthopedics and trauma at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaïde, Australia. He then started as an assistant professor and was appointed as a professor in Toulouse in 2012. He is currently the treasurer and chairman of the Scientific Committee of SOFOP, French Pediatric Orthopedics Association, chairman of EPOS Sport’s medicine Study Group, and member of EPOS (European Pediatric Orthopaedics Society) Scientific Committee.