Who

New York's top podiatrist and a foot expert at the Hospital for Special Surgery, Positano spends his time fixing the feet of professional athletes and women who have been maimed by their Manolos.

Backstory

Brooklyn native Positano earned degrees from Yale Medical School, NYU and the New York College of Podiatry before arriving at the Hospital for Special Surgery in 1991. As director of non-surgical foot and ankle services and co-director of the hospital's Foot Center, Positano's specialty is foot-related sports injuries and trauma. He's best known, though, for the many famous feet he's had the pleasure of examining over the years. In addition to serving as the podiatry specialist for the New York Giants and the New York Mets, he's tended to patients like the late Yankees great Joe DiMaggio, Henry Kissinger, Neil Young, Regis Philbin, and Rudy Giuliani, whom he fitted for orthodics. A weekly columnist on health issues for the New York Post, Positano coined the term "Gloria Gaynor fracture" for women who fall down while dancing in high-heel shoes.

Personal

Positano and his wife, Marisa, live on lower Park Avenue.