Dr. Kathleen Rickert-Madden
Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatric Orthopaedics
MD, FAAOS
Duke Health — Durham, North Carolina, USA
Background
Kathleen Rickert-Madden is an Associate Clinical Professor in Duke's Pediatric Orthopaedics division, board certified and a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. She earned her MD from the University of Arizona (2011), completed her orthopaedic surgery residency at Duke University Medical Center, and a pediatric orthopaedic fellowship at Rady Children's Hospital (2017). Her practice covers trauma, lower-extremity deformity, leg-length discrepancy, skeletal dysplasia, neuromuscular conditions and complex congenital abnormalities; before returning to Duke she held faculty roles at UC San Diego/Rady Children's Hospital and at Central Texas Pediatric Orthopedics/UT Austin, where she was previously the designated limb-lengthening surgeon.
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