Lisa Cannada, MD

Dr. Cannada is an Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon affiliated with Novant health, where she is the Director of Faculty Integration for the UNC School of Medicine Charlotte Campus, Medical Student Clerkship Director and Professor. She completed a 3-year term on the AAOS BOD in 2018 as the first female Chair of the Board of Specialty Societies. She was responsible for developing the current fellowship match process for orthopaedics. She is a member of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association and served on the BOD and received the first OTA DEI and Health Disparities Leadership Award in October 2022. She served as a president of the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society and received the inaugural “She for She “ Award in 2022. Dr. Cannada has made it her mission to make the path better for those that follow, by her work and leadership roles. Her clinical interests and research include both upper and lower extremity fractures and outcomes. She is also completing multiple studies in geriatric fracture fixation. She has over 220 publications and 250 presentations at national meetings. She could not do this without the support of her family, her husband Jeff and daughter Annalise and her parents, the late John W. Metcalf MD and her mom, Theresa Metcalf. Her favorite role is “soccer mom”, but now she is helping her daughter, a collegiate soccer player, recover from an ACL reconstruction.