Edward D. Re, MD

Edward D. Re, MD, is a pediatric sports medicine specialist with the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Sports Medicine and Performance Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

Dr. Re earned his medical degree at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and his undergraduate degree at Brown University. He completed an internship in Emergency Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania before joining CHOP as a pediatric resident, then a primary care sports medicine fellow. 

During Dr. Re’s tenure at CHOP. he has also worked as a primary care attending physician at the Nicholas and Athena Karabots Pediatric Care Center in West Philadelphia. At Karabots, Dr. Re cared for children and adolescents at the high-volume, primary care and academic practice, as well as taught pediatric residents’ best practices in musculoskeletal care and sports medicine.

For the past two years, Dr. Re has served as team doctor for both West Chester University, West Chester, Pa., and Penn Charter High School in Philadelphia. At West Chester, he helped design and implement safety guidelines and practices related to COVID-19. At Penn Charter, Dr. Re provided sideline medical care at football games, weekly training room sessions, and guided coaches and team leadership about best practices during COVID-19.

Dr. Re’s research interests include concussion care and management for young athletes and youth, as well as investigating ways that clinical informatics can improve outcomes for patients with orthopaedic conditions or sports medicine injuries.\

In addition to Dr. Re’s educational and clinical experience, he spent three years as a research assistant, first at Brown University Liver Research Center, and later at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, both in Providence, RI. These experiences followed his undergraduate and medical degrees at Brown University.