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Richard S. Davidson, MD

Attending Surgeon

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Specialties and Services

Practice Locations

Education

MD - New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY

Internship

New York University and Bellevue Hospitals, New York, NY

Residency

New York University and Bellevue Hospitals, New York, NY The Hospital for Special Surgery, Cornell University, New York, NY

Fellowship

Pediatric Orthopaedics - Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

Board Certification

Orthopaedic Surgery

Year Appointed

1982

Special Interests

Foot and ankle: clubfoot (Ponseti method), skew foot, vertical talus, tarsal coalition
Limb deformity: correction of lower and upper limb deformities, leg length discrepancy, Ilizarov and other external fixation devices to correct deformity, non-unions of fractures, Blount's disease, bow-leg deformity, knock knees, congenital amputations and limb deficiencies, growth disturbances
Limb deficiencies: proximal femur focal deficiency, tibia hemimelia, fibular hemimelia, radial club hand, ulnar club hand| Fractures of the lower extremity
Hip diseases: slipped capital femoral epiphysis, Legg Perthes, developmental dysplasia of the hip
Arthrogryposis
Spina bifida

Research Interests

Double tibial osteotomy with Ilizarov external fixation for treatment of infantile Blount's tibia vara
McFarland bypass bone graft in the treatment of anterolateral bowing of the follow tibia (per-pseudoarthrosis of the tibia), a two to ten year follow up
Intertrochanteric osteotomy with mono-lateral external fixation to treat severe deformity of slipped capital femoral epiphysis
Retrospective review of gradual correction of adolescent Blount's deformity with hinged external fixators - 60 cases
Tarsal tunnel syndrome associated with pes valgus in adolescents
Pinning of slipped capital femoral epiphysis without a fracture tab
Salvage procedures for the management of residual and recurrent deformities in the older child with club foot
Avascular necrosis in second side acute unstable slipped capital femoral epiphysis
Treatment of combined tarsal coalition and severe pes valgus

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