Dr. F.Scott Gray of Ridgefield was elected president of the Connecticut Orthopaedic Society (COS) at the organization’s annual meeting on May 8.

Gray will serve as president of the 250-member Society from May 2015 to May 2017.

A founding partner of Connecticut Family Orthopedics, with offices in Danbury, Ridgefield, Southbury, and Bridgeport, Gray is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon and a member of the Connecticut State Medical Society and Fairfield County Medical Association. He is a foot and ankle surgical specialist at Danbury Hospital, and served as the Orthopaedic Trauma coordinator for many years.

Among his innovative and pioneering contributions to the surgery department at Danbury Hospital, Gray was the first to perform cartilage transplant surgery in the ankle, and the first to perform a total ankle replacement in western Connecticut. He co-founded the Danbury Foot and Ankle Center and, along with his partners at CT Family Orthopedics in 2011, opened up the first orthopedic only urgent care walk-in facility in Connecticut, called, OrthoPrompt.

He received his medical degree from Georgetown University Medical School and completed his orthopaedic residency at Tufts Medical Center.

The father of six, Gray’s wife is Cantor Deborah Katchko-Gray of Temple Shearith Israel in Ridgefield.