MD, PhD (Toulouse)
Chairman, Department of Orthopedic and Traumatology Surgery, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse- France

Professor Pierre Mansat is the Chairman of the Department of Orthopedic and Traumatology Surgery, at Toulouse University Hospital since 2018.

After graduating from Toulouse Medical School, he made his residency at the Toulouse university hospital. He made a one-year clinical fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Adult Reconstruction Surgery (1996-1997) with DRS Cofield, Morrey and O’Driscoll. He then obtained his PhD on “Biomechanical analysis of the implanted glenoid by the finite element method." (2002). He then oriented his surgical practice toward shoulders, elbow and hand surgery. He became Professor of Orthopedics and Traumatology in 2004. He was involved in the residency program at the board of the Dean of Toulouse Medical School since 2005. He is the President of the National Council of Universities for Orthopedic and Traumatology since 2022.

He has published numerous articles and chapters in the main textbooks about shoulder and elbow and hand disorders (182 articles referenced in PuMed). He founded in 2009 the French Society of Shoulder and Elbow (SOFEC), which at that time did not exist and became its first President in 2010. He is a member of SECEC since 2000 and the American Shoulder and Elbow Society since 2007. He is part of the Ex-com of the French Society of Orthopedy and Traumatology since 2022. He is involved with the JSES since 1999 as reviewer, then Assistant Editor in 2006, Deputy-International Editor in 2013 until 2021. Since 2016, he is also the Chief-Editor of the JSES International. He has organized a number of national and international courses over the last 20 years. His main interests are shoulder and elbow arthroplasties and upper limb trauma. He lives with his wife in Toulouse, in the city center. They have 4 children.