Dr. Trousdale is currently a consultant in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic and professor in orthopaedic surgery at the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota. He graduated from the St. Louis University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, completed a fellowship as a Mayo Foundation Scholar in Berne, Switzerland, and was an ABC Traveling Fellow. He is also a Fellow at American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and a member of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, the American Medical Association and the Knee Society and Hip Society.