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Chief of Pediatric Surgical Services
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Biography
Dr. Brian Grottkau is the Shriner’s Endowed Professor of Pediatric Orthopaedics with dual appointments in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Healthcare. He serves as the Chief of Pediatric Surgical Services and the Chief of Pediatric Orthopaedics at the Holtz Childen’s Hospital. His practice interests include the treatment of scoliosis in children, adolescents, and young adults, as well as the treatment of general pediatric orthopaedic conditions. Additionally, Dr. Grottkau is Board certified in orthopaedic surgery. He is a developer of a novel surgical treatment for idiopathic scoliosis called Anterior Vertebral Body Tethering, a minimally invasive, motion-preserving therapy that allows children normal spinal function.
He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He went to Medical School at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He then completed his Orthopaedic Surgery Residency at the Harvard University Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital. He then completed a fellowship in orthopaedic trauma at the Massachusetts General Hospital, an Adult spine surgery fellowship at the New England Baptist Hospital/Tufts Medical School, and then a combined pediatric orthopaedic fellowship at Children’s Hospital Boston and the University of California Davis Medical Center/Northern California Shriner’s Hospital. He then returned to Boston where he worked as Chief of Pediatric Orthopaedics for 27 years until moving to South Florida to join the faculty of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
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