Roger F. Widmann, MD

Appointments

Chief of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery

Co-Chief of Limb Lengthening Service, Hospital for Special Surgery

Associate Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon, Hospital for Special Surgery

Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Specialty

Pediatrics
Pediatric Orthopedic Service
Orthopedic Surgery

Subspecialty

Limb Lengthening, Pediatrics, Scoliosis, Trauma, Orthopedic Surgery

Special Expertise

Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery

Scoliosis

Hip Dysplasia

Pediatric Orthopaedic Trauma

Pediatric Limb-Lengthening

Awards

Phi Beta Kappa, Yale College, 1985. Sigma Xi, 1985

Donjoy Prize for M.D. thesis, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, 1989. "Effects of Prefracture Irradiation on the Biomechanical Parameters of Fracture Healing."

Kilfoyle Award, for best resident/fellow paper at New England Orthopaedic Society, November, 1994. "Complications of closed treatment of distal radius fractures in children."

Louis A. Goldstein Award, for the best Clinical Poster presentation at the Scoliosis Research Society Annual Meeting, September 25, 1999. "Routine Preoperative MRI in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Prospective Study of 327 Patients."

AOA-JOA Traveling Fellowship Award to Japan from the American and Japanese Orthopaedic Associations, May – June 2002

Affiliations

American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

American Academy of Pediatrics

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery

American Medical Association

Education

MD, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, US

Residency

Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Surgery Program, Massachusetts, US

Fellowship

Children’s Hospital, Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, US

Certification

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery

State Licensure

New York  

Roger F. Widmann, MD is the author of the following articles on HSS.edu:

Selected Publications

Willis, A. A.; Widmann, R. F.; Flynn, J. M.; Green, D. W.; and Onel, K. B.: Lyme arthritis presenting as acute septic arthritis in children. J Pediatr Orthop, 23(1): 114-8, 2003.

Laplaza, F. J.; Widmann, R. F.; Fealy, S.; Moustafellos, E.; Illueca, M.; Burke, S. W.; and Boachie-Adjei, O.: Pancreatitis after surgery in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: incidence and risk factors. J Pediatr Orthop, 22(1): 80-3., 2002.

Widmann, R. F.; Laplaza, F. J.; Bitan, F. D.; Brooks, C. E.; and Root, L.: Quality of life in osteogenesis imperfecta. Int Orthop, 26(1): 3-6, 2002.

Flynn, J. M., and Widmann, R. F.: The limping child: evaluation and diagnosis. J Am Acad Orthop Surg, 9(2): 89-98, 2001.

Bae, H.; Widmann, R. F.; and Hotchkiss, R. N.: Extreme rotational malunion of the humerus. A case report. J Bone Joint Surg Am, 83-A(3): 424-7., 2001.

For more publications, please see the PubMed listing.