Dr. Mel Nutig, a Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon, has held academic appointments in Orthopedic Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and at UCLA Medical School. He was on the Attending Staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, a member of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, the California Orthopedic Association, the Western Orthopedic Association, the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, the American Telemedicine Association and the Healthcare Informatics and Management Systems Society.

As an early champion of Telemedicine, Dr. Nutig was selected as the first chairman of Cedars-Sinai's Telemedicine Committee. He was a member of the California Telehealth/Telemedicine Coordination Project, where he worked on their final publication, "Telehealth & Telemedicine: Taking Distance Out of Caring." He was chosen to testify before the California Senate's Health Committee, which eventually passed the nation's first law recognizing the legitimacy of Telemedicine. He has spoken at Telemedicine symposia across the nation.

Dr. Nutig served as team physician at the US Olympic Training Centers in Squaw Valley and Colorado Springs. He also was a daily on-air expert in sports medicine at KFWB-AM radio, where he wrote, researched, edited, and recorded all the episodes, five days each week for six months.

Originally from Coney Island, Dr. Nutig earned his undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College. He attended medical school at the University of Bologna in north-central Italy, where he arrived not knowing one word of the language. Back home with his M.D. degree, he completed his Orthopedic Surgical residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in the Bronx, New York and then did a fellowship in joint replacement surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Upon the completion of his training, he moved to Beverly Hills and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he had a long and successful practice spanning more than four decades. He retired from clinical practice at the end of 2018.

He has published extensively in the field of Telemedicine in "Telemedicine," "Telehealth Network," the "Bulletin of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons," and many others; in the field of General Medicine and Sports Medicine in "LACMA Physician Review," "Orthopedic Review," and a sports medicine resource guide from KFWB was compiled from his on-air talks. CODE BLUES: A Surgeon's Journey with Depression is his first long-form manuscript.

A four-time marathon runner, Dr. Nutig enjoys long distance walking and hiking, including several adventure trips to Spain, Italy, New Zealand, and Rwanda to see the mountain gorillas.