Education

8/1987-6/1991 Gainesville High School
Gainesville, GA

8/1991-5/1995 Emory University
Atlanta, GA
BS (Biology), May 1995

8/1995-5/1999 Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, GA
MD, May 1999

Postdoctural Training

7/1999-6/2000 Vanderbilt University Medical Center
General Surgery Internship

7/2000-6/2004 Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Orthopaedic Surgery Resident

8/2004-7/2005 OrthoCarolina Foot and Ankle Institute (Charlotte,NC)
Foot and Ankle Fellow
Assistant team physician with Dr. Robert Anderson with the Carolina Panthers

Honors / Awards

Gainesville High School
• Salutatorian

Emory University
• Phi Beta Kappa (elected as junior in 1993)
• Alpha Epsilon Delta (premedical honor society)
• Honor Council: member 1993-1995, chairman 1994

Medical College of Georgia
• Medical College of Georgia Honors USMLE Part 1 and 2
• Regents’ Scholarship 1998-1999
• Alpha Omega Alpha

Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Representative, Orthopaedic Class of 2004

Predoctural Employment

Summer 1992 & 1993 Northeast Georgia Medical Center
Operating Room Assistant

Summer 1996 Family Medicine Preceptorship (Gainesville, GA)

Employment

8/2005 – Present Elite Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center, PLC (Nashville, TN)

Volunteer Experience

8/1995-5/1996 Students for Community Involvement (SCI)
Member/Volunteer Teacher

7/1997-5/1997 Medical College of Georgia
Sophomore Advisor

7/1997-6/1998 Clinical Mentorship Program (MCG)
Clinical Mentor

Certification

Board Certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery

Organization Memberships

American Medical Association (AMA)
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)
American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS)
North Carolina Medical Society

Research Experience

“Willers,Jeffrey (2006). “Ankle Ligament Injury and Instability” in D. Johnson and S. Mair (Eds.), Clinical Sports Medicine (pp 673-680). Philadelphia, PA: Mosby Elsevier

Willers, J; Richardson, D; Jones, C; Cohen, B; Davis, WH; Anderson, R: Results of proximal metatarsal-Akin double osteotomy for hallux valgus correction. American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society, 21st Annual Summer Meeting Program 21:42,2005

Willers, J; Richardson, D; Jones, C; Cohen, B; Davis, WH; Anderson, R: Evaluation of the morbidity of flexor hallucis longus tendon transfer. American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society, 21st Annual Summer Meeting Program 21:9,2005. Presentation published in Orthopaedics Today: 25:10, October 2005

2002-2004 Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Limb Salvage Surgery: Reconstruction with Custom Tantalum Implants—accepted by Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

1998-1999 Medical College of Georgia, Dept. of Plastic Surgery
Mechanotransduction and its role in the external force-induced change in calvarial morphology

1994 Emory University Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Enzymes involved in post-translational processing of proglucagon

Hobbies and Special Interests

Running, home renovation, and spending time with his wife and their twins.