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EDUCATION:
- College: Tulane University, 1991
- Medical School: Tulane University, 1995
- Orthopaedic Surgery Residency: Tulane University, 2000
- Fellowship: Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard University, Children’s Hospital of Boston, 2001
- Fellowship: Mueller Foundation Fellowship with Professor R. Ganz, Hip Reconstruction, 2004
HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS:
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston
- Northside Hospital
BOARD CERTIFICATION:
- American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
LICENSURE:
- Medical License - State of Georgia
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
- American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Atlanta Orthopaedic Society
- Georgia Orthopaedic Society
- Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America
AREAS OF CLINICAL INTEREST:
- Treatment of pediatric, adolescent, and young adult hip disorders
- Developmental Hip Dysplasia
- Femoroacetabular Dysplasia
- Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis
- Perthes Disease
- Hip Problems in Athletes
- Muscular Dystrophy
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Pulmonary function in children with muscular dystrophy
- Outcomes after hip surgery in adolescents and young adults
- Treatment of Perthes disease using core decompression and bone marrow aspirate
- Assessing femoral head perfusion in SCFE patients
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| Tim Schrader, M.D. |
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Dr. Tim Schrader is a native of Germany. His family moved from Laboe, a coastal 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 received in Boston & Bern, Dr. Schrader has developed a special interest in pediatric, adolescent & young adult hip problems including femeroacetabular impingement (FAI) & 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 performs surgical dislocations of the hip (SDH) & Ganz periacetabular osteotomies (PAO). Dr. 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.
Dr. Schrader sees patients at the following locations: Meridian Mark, Alpharetta and Marietta.
To schedule an appointment, call 404-255-1933 or schedule online now. |
