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Dr. Tim Schrader is a native of Germany. His family moved from Laboe, a costal town in northern Germany, to Corvallis, Oregon when he was seven. After finishing high school, he traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana where he graduated Tau Beta Pi with Summa cum Laude from Tulane University's School of Engineering. He continued at the Tulane University School of Medicine where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. After completing a surgical internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, he began his orthopaedic surgery residency at Tulane University.
It was during his residency that Dr. Schrader was first exposed to pediatric orthopaedics at Children's Orthopaedics of Atlanta. After finishing his residency, Dr. Schrader completed a sub-specialty fellowship in pediatric orthopaedic surgery at the Harvard University Children's Hospital-Boston. Upon completion of his fellowship, he was invited to join the staff at Children's Orthopaedics of Atlanta.
He has also completed a Mueller Foundation Hip Fellowship in Bern, Switzerland under the direction of Professor Reinhold Ganz. Combining the training he recieved in Boston and Bern, Dr. Schrader has developed a special interest in pediatric, adolescent and young adult hip problems including femeroacetabular impingement (FAI) and hip dysplasia (DDH). Dr. Schrader is currently the Medical Director of the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Hip program and is one of a handful of orthopaedic surgeons in the southeast who perform surgical dislocations of the hip (SDH) and Ganz periacetabular osteotomies (PAO). Drs. Schrader also performs hip arthroscopy which is a minimally invasive approach to dealing with certain hip pathologies. Surgery for patients over 21 years of age is performed at either Northside Hospital or at Atlanta Medical Center.
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