Wudbhav N. Sankar, MD
Attending surgeon
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Wudbhav N. Sankar, MD, is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed his orthopaedic surgical training at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by two pediatric orthopaedic fellowships at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Shriners Hospitals for Children in Los Angeles. He then pursued advanced training in the area of adolescent and young adult hip reconstruction at the Children’s Hospital of Boston.
Dr. Sankar currently heads up the pediatric and adolescent hip program at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The program cares for patients with a host of pediatric hip conditions including developmental dysplasia of the hip, Legg-Calve-Perthes disease, slipped capital femoral epiphysis and avascular necrosis.
In addition, Dr. Sankar’s clinical area of expertise includes spine disorders such as scoliosis, kyphosis and spondylolisthesis as well as pediatric orthopaedic trauma.
Dr. Sankar is one of a small group of surgeons in the country who perform complex hip procedures such as the Ganz periacetabular osteotomy, surgical dislocation of the hip, and head realignments following slipped epiphyses.
He is a member of several multi-center research groups, including the International Perthes Study Group. His active areas of research include hip conditions in Trisomy 21, the optimal management of slipped epiphysis, and the genetic factors responsible for pediatric hip disease.
Dr. Sankar has published more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles, reviews or textbook chapters, and has written or edited two books.
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