Annunziato (Ned) Amendola, MD, FAAOS, FRCSC, DABOS
Published 3/24/2025
AAOS announced Annunziato (Ned) Amendola, MD, FAAOS, FRCSC, DABOS, as its new president. Dr. Amendola, professor of orthopaedic surgery and chief of sports medicine at Duke University, assumed the role following the AAOS 2025 Annual Meeting.
Dr. Amendola leads Duke’s sports medicine program, a position he has held since 2015, while serving as executive director of the James R. Urbaniak, MD, Sports Sciences Institute in Durham, North Carolina. As the Virginia Flowers Baker Distinguished Professor, he also maintains his role as head team physician and chief medical officer for Duke Athletics. He brings nearly 3 decades of leadership experience in orthopaedic medicine to his new role as AAOS president. His dedication to AAOS continues to make a lasting impact:
He served as chair of the AAOS 2011 Annual Meeting Program Committee and chair of the AAOS Central Program Committee and was a member of the Orthopaedic Research Society-AAOS Co-Programming Committee.
He was elected as a member-at-large to the AAOS Board of Directors in 2012, serving on several Board Project Teams, including the Strategic Plan team.
Following his Board service, he was elected to the AAOS Nominating Committee and also represented the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) on the AAOS Fellowship Accreditation Project Team.
In addition to his committee service, Dr. Amendola was appointed deputy editor of the Journal of the AAOS®.
Beyond AAOS, Dr. Amendola’s career has been defined by a commitment to advancing patient care through strategic collaboration across major orthopaedic organizations, including on the Board of Trustees of the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation, as president of the AOSSM and the Herodicus Orthopaedic Society, and on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, and the Arthroscopy Association of North America.
Throughout his distinguished career, Dr. Amendola has consistently pushed the boundaries of orthopaedic medicine through groundbreaking research and clinical innovation. His contributions to arthroscopic and biologic repair techniques for cartilage replacement and repair have transformed treatment approaches for ankle and knee injuries.
A respected researcher and mentor, Dr. Amendola has secured numerous peer-reviewed grants and authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications. His exceptional contributions have been recognized with prestigious honors, including the Excellence in Research Award, the Cabaud Memorial Award, the O’Donoghue Award, and the distinguished Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughn Award.
Dr. Amendola began his career in Canada and is a past president of the Canadian Academy of Sports Medicine and a Diplomate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada. He earned his medical degree and completed his orthopaedic residency at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. He completed post-graduate fellowships in orthopaedic sports medicine, foot and ankle surgery, and hand surgery. He was on faculty at Western Ontario until 2001, when he was recruited to be the director of sports medicine at the University of Iowa until 2015. While there, he held the Kim and John Callaghan Endowed Chair in Sports Medicine before leaving for Duke University.