Emilio Calvo is the Director of the Shoulder and Elbow Reconstructive Surgery Unit and Professor of Orthopedics at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, a teaching hospital affiliated to the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain). After terminating his residency program, he completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. Actually and since 1998, he is in charge of the Shoulder and Elbow Reconstructive Surgery Unit. During his tenure, new and innovated techniques have been introduced, like complex prosthetic procedures and arthroscopic Latarjet or arthroscopic treatment of proximal humeral malunions. In addition, a number of research projects in shoulder surgery have been initiated and developed. Several communications and publications to national and international meetings and journals have been presented and published.

He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery.

Emilio Calvo is also an active member of national and international scientific societies, like the European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and Elbow (ESSSE), the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES), the European Society for Sports, Knee and Arthroscopy (ESSKA), and the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS). He has now member by appointment of the Program Committee of the European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and Elbow (ESSSE) and the Upper Limb Committee of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS). He has been the President of the 22nd Meeting of the European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and Elbow hold in Madrid on September 2009.