Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery Fellowship

Our program has 12 fulltime fellowship trained pediatric orthopedic surgeons and four fulltime non operative pediatric sports specialists serving a large Midwest region with over 40,000 outpatient visits a year and a very busy trauma center.

The fellow would learn in a variety of settings including a tertiary care level 1 trauma center, a pediatric satellite hospital and multiple clinics throughout the greater Kansas City area.

Program highlights

• Fellow would learn contemporary spine care with O-arm navigation, Video-assisted Transthoracic Vertebral Body Tethering, Magnetically Controlled Growth Rods, Mehta casting and use of the EOS radiography with Stereos

• Busy operative and non-operative sports group with exposure to a state of the art 26,000 sq ft sports assessment and rehab facility housed next to Sporting KC staffed by our group

• Training in current trauma reconstruction methods with our trauma specialists

• Opportunity to develop subspecialty interests in CP including gait lab, upper extremity, child and adolescent hip reconstruction, clubfoot

• Opportunity to rotate through amputee, spina bifida, brachial plexus, skeletal dysplasia clinics

• Research support and opportunities with a research coordinator and databases in trauma, sports and spine from which to launch studies