Biography
Dr. Vincent Mosca is a Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Washington School of Medicine and an academic full-time pediatric orthopedic surgeon. He has worked for his entire career in Seattle, Washington along with his close friend and mentor Dr. Lynn Staheli, the founder of Global HELP. Vince completed his orthopedic surgery residency at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, and did a one-year fellowship in pediatric orthopedics at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada before starting his practice in Seattle.
Approximately 70% of his clinical work and most of his publications and lectures pertain to the understanding of, and treatment for, deformities of the child’s foot. Dr. Mosca has authored or co-authored 30 articles, 26 book chapters, and four monographs. He has been an invited guest speaker in approximately 100 medical centers and conferences in the U.S., and forty internationally.
Vince is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics (U.S.) and the Journal of Children’s Orthopaedics (Europe). He is listed in twelve national/international “Who’s Who” directories and has been listed in the book “The Best Doctors in America” since 1996.
Dr. Mosca was the Director of the Department of Orthopedics at Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center, and the Chief of Pediatric Orthopedics at the University of Washington in Seattle for thirteen years. He stepped down from his administrative responsibilities eight years ago to devote more time to research and writing, while maintaining his very busy clinical practice.
