James J. Mccarthy MD, MHCM

Dr. McCarthy is a professor for the Department of Orthopedics Surgery at the University of Cincinnati as well as the director of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery and the Alvin L. Crawford chair in pediatric orthopedics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. He is a former president of the Pediatric Orthopedics Society of North America (POSNA) and Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society (LLRS).

He was initially trained as an engineer at the University of Wisconsin, attended medical school at the University of North Carolina and completed his residency in at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He recently completed his master’s degree in health care management at Harvard School of Public Health. He has over 150 publications, including chapters in every major textbook, he has won numerous grants awards, including funding from the NIH and is currently the medical director of the motion analysis laboratory.