Jonathan A. Forsberg, M.D., is an associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an orthopedic oncologist at Sibley Memorial Hospital, part of the Johns Hopkins Health System. He specializes in treating children and adults with bone and soft tissue sarcomas, including osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma.

Dr. Forsberg also has considerable expertise in managing metastatic bone disease and metabolic bone disease, as well as blast- and other combat-related wounds, and limb-sparing surgery. He developed the first validated model to help guide surgical treatment of metastatic bone disease and completed research to further the understanding of soft-tissue sarcomas of the extremities.

Dr. Forsberg earned his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University’s F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine. He completed a residency in orthopedic surgery at the National Naval Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in orthopedic oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Dr. Forsberg also earned a doctorate in clinical bioinformatics at Karolinska University in Stockholm, Sweden. 

He is an active researcher and principle investigator focusing on applying precision medicine to oncologic surgery, preventing combat-related heterotopic ossification and developing next-generation osseointegration techniques for patients with amputations. He is a regular contributor and previous guest editor for Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, the specialty’s premier peer-reviewed journal, and previously served as a guest editor for the Journal of Surgical Orthopaedic Advances. 

Dr. Forsberg is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and a member of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society, the Orthopaedic Surgery Osseointegration Society, the Orthopaedic Research Society, the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons, and the American Orthopaedic Association.