Gary ‘Dock’ Dockery, DPM, FACFAS
Dr. G. “Dock” Dockery graduated as valedictorian of his class with top honors from the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1976. He did a surgical residency in foot and ankle surgery at the Waldo Podiatric Surgical Residency Program in Seattle and graduated in 1977. He began private practice in Seattle, WA, and maintained an active practice until 2002. He is the founder of the Northwest Podiatric Foundation for Education and Research, USA, and is currently the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Director of Scientific Affairs of this organization.Dr. Dockery is a Fellow and Past Board of Directors of the American College of Foot & Ankle Surgeons. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Foot & Ankle Pediatrics, the American Society of Podiatric Dermatology and the American College of Foot and Ankle Orthopedics and Primary Podiatric Medicine. He is Board Certified in Foot and Ankle Surgery by the American Board of Podiatric Surgery and is Board Certified in Podiatric Orthopedics by the American Board of Podiatric Orthopedics and Primary Podiatric Medicine.
Dr. Dockery was the Director of Medical Education and Residency Training of the Waldo Podiatric Surgical Residency Program for many years and still maintains a close relationship with the current Northwest Podiatric Surgical Residency Program at Swedish Medical Center, Providence Hospital Campus, in Seattle. He has authored several textbooks including: Color Atlas and Text of Forefoot Surgery (Mosby 1992); Cutaneous Disorders of the Lower Extremity (WB Saunders 1997); Color Atlas of Foot & Ankle Dermatology (Lippincott 1999); and, Lower Extremity Soft Tissue & Cutaneous Plastic Surgery (Elsevier 2006). He has also authored numerous scientific articles in peer-reviewed medical journals and other publications.
Dr. Dockery is a nationally and internationally known lecturer and continues to travel extensively throughout the world to scientific seminars to present his diagnostic and surgical techniques and to speak on medical topics regarding the lower extremities.
