Dr. Richard S. Davidson
Attending Orthopedic Surgeon; Professor, Perelman
MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Background
Richard S. Davidson is an Attending Orthopedic Surgeon at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, where he has practiced since 1982. He earned his MD from New York University School of Medicine, trained in general surgery at Bellevue Hospital, completed an orthopaedic surgery residency at Hospital for Special Surgery/Cornell University, and a pediatric orthopaedics fellowship at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. He is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, is a past president of the Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society, and focuses on limb deformities and foot disorders including clubfoot correction, arthrogryposis and limb-length inequalities.
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