Dror Paley (born March 25, 1956) is a Canadian-trained orthopedic surgeon, who specializes in limb lengthening and deformity correction procedures.
[2][3] Paley has been licensed with the Province of Ontario, Canada, since 1980,[4] the Maryland Board of Physicians since 1986,[5] and with the Florida Department of Health since 2009.
[3] In 1991, Paley co-founded the Maryland Center for Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction at James Lawrence Kernan Hospital with Dr. John Herzenberg.
[8] In 2013, Smith & Nephew released a new Modular Rail System for external fixation and limb deformity correction, in collaboration with Paley.
Paley is credited with bringing the Ilizarov method to the West and claims to have performed the first recorded Western attempt at it in April 1987.