ISAKOS 2023 Congress Faculty

Jon Olav Drogset, Prof.

Trondheim University Hospital
Trondheim NORWAY

Professor Jon Olav Drogset is Chair at the Institute of Orthopedics and Rheumatology at the Medical Faculty of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Professor Drogset is also an Orthopedic Surgeon at the Section for Arthroscopy and Sports Traumatology at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Trondheim University Hospital in Norway. He has US high school diploma from Concord High School, Wilmington Delaware, USA, 1977, graduated from medical school at the University of Oslo in 1985 after premedicine in Bochum, Germany. He is a specialist in General Surgery from 1995, Sports Medicine from 1995 and Orthopedic Surgery from 1998. His thesis was on results after surgical treatment of anterior cruciate ligament injuries at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2006. His main research interests are on knee injuries with several publications on ACL injuries and cartilage repair. Professor Drogset is the former President of the Norwegian Arthroscopy Association, the Norwegian Association of Sports Medicine, Scandinavian Foundation of Medicine and Science in Sports and the Norwegian Orthopedic Association. Professor Drogset is also a member of the ACL Study Group and he is the Team Doctor for Rosenborg FC. Professor Drogset was elected the KSSTA reviewer of the year 2016. He is a member of ESSKA and ISAKOS. Professor Drogset was the Scientific President of the Centennial Congress of the Nordic Orthopedic Federation in Trondheim, Norway 2020. Professor Drogset is the Chair of the Steering Group of the Norwegian Knee Ligament Register.