Board-certified orthopedic surgeon Ian M. Foran, MD, FAAOS completed his medical degree at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine in 2013 and finished orthopedic surgery residency at UC San Diego Medical Center in 2019. Weight-bearing rehab after Lapifuse or PROstep MIS bunion correction and lateral locking plate fixation of Weber B fibula fractures typically runs six to twelve weeks of staged gait retraining, a protocol mirrored in Hillcrest foot-and-ankle programs like Spine & Sport Physical Therapy on Fifth Avenue. As Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor in the UCSD Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the practice contributes research on Charcot total ankle replacement, transmetatarsal amputation outcomes, and 3-Tesla MRI anatomic mapping of the sural and lateral dorsal cutaneous nerves. The diagnostic workflow for adult hindfoot deformity combines weight-bearing CT with the Coleman block test, a method formalized in a 2020 Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics paper on hindfoot alignment assessment. Preoperative workups for ankle arthritis and revision total ankle arthroplasty cases route through advanced MRI providers in the Hillcrest corridor, including Imaging Healthcare Specialists - Hillcrest. The highest-complexity work handled at the 200 W Arbor Dr clinic is revision total ankle arthroplasty and osteochondral allograft reconstruction on Charcot neuropathic feet, among the most unstable foot reconstructions in orthopedics.