Dr. Christine Goodbody
Attending Surgeon
MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Background
Christine M. Goodbody is an Attending Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon at CHOP's Orthopedic Center, specializing in complex lower-limb deformities, cerebral palsy surgery and limb lengthening. She earned a combined MD/Master of Bioethics from the Perelman School of Medicine, served as a Benjamin Fox Orthopaedic Research Scholar at CHOP, completed an orthopaedic surgery residency at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York and a pediatric orthopaedic fellowship at CHOP, then a six-month Limb Lengthening & Reconstruction fellowship at the International Center for Limb Lengthening, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore (2022), focused on novel techniques for pediatric lower-limb deformity and congenital deficiency correction. Her clinical interests include cerebral palsy, gait disturbance, limb-length discrepancy, spina bifida and post-traumatic deformity.
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