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Michael T. Busch graduated from the accelerated Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. He continued his education at Northwestern University completing his orthopaedic surgery residency in 1985. During this time, he spent a year at the Children'’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, developing his interest in pediatric orthopaedics and an expertise in children with myelodysplasia. The Myelomeningocele Clinic at Children'’s Memorial Hospital is directed by Luciano Dias, M.D. and is the largest in North America.
After his residency, Dr. Busch completed a fellowship at the Scottish Rite Children's Medical Center in Atlanta. Following this, he pursued a six month traveling fellowship in sports medicine. Dr. Busch then joined Children's’ Orthopaedics of Atlanta in 1987.
As one of the few pediatric orthopaedic surgeons in the country with an interest in Sports Medicine, Dr. Busch is the director of Sports Medicine and Arthroscopic Surgery at the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite. As a member of the American College of Sports Medicine, Dr. Busch has authored several publications on young athletes. He is the author of a chapter in "Athletic Injuries in Young Children," one of the definitive textbook in pediatric sports medicine. He has written on cartilage tears in young athletes and presents annually at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery’s Instructional Course Lecture on knee problems in youths. Dr. Busch served as one of the Sports Medicine Team Physicians during the 1996 Summer Olympic games in Atlanta.
Aside from his work with competitive athletes, he has applied his arthroscopic techniques to the joint problems of hemophiliacs. His work has led to recognition of Chilren's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite as a national referral center for arthroscopic synovectomies, a procedure that limits the destructive effects of repetitive joint bleeding in hemophiliacs. Dr. Busch is a member of the National Hemophilia Foundation’s Musculoskeletal Committee with an expertise in arthroscopic and radionuclide synovectomies. He has presented results of his application of arthroscopic techniques in the hemophiliac population to the Arthroscopy Association of North America, The Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and the National Hemophilia Foundation. Dr. Busch is actively involved with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite where he has served on and chaired numerous committees. He also served as the Vice Director of Surgery and two terms as Director of Surgery. Dr. Busch was a member of the committee that developed the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Health Care Alliance and he served three years on the Board of Directors of this organization that brings together over 500 pediatric primary care physicians and pediatric specialists. Dr. Busch’s current research projects include:
- Complications associated with the treatment of slipped capital femoral epiphyses
- Intramedullary fixation of childrens’ forearm fractures
- Results of arthroscopic synovectomy for hemophilia
- A new technique for arthroscopic surgery of the ankle
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