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Washington University School of Medicine,
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery,
One Barnes-Jewish Hospital Plaza,
Suite 11300 West Pavilion
St. Louis MO USA 63110
Tel: 314-747-2507

Keith Bridwell, MD

Dr. Keith Bridwell is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine. He is the founder and Director of the Washington University (St. Louis) Spine Fellowship program, which was initiated in 1991 and to-date has trained 16 fellows. Dr. Bridwell is also the Chief of Pediatric and Adult Spinal Surgery in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and is the Asa C. and Dorothy W. Jones Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery. He holds hospital appointments at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children's Hospital, and St. Louis Shriners Hospital for Children.

Following a medical degree at Washington University Medical School, Dr. Bridwell did his orthopaedic internship and orthopaedic surgery residency at Washington University School of Medicine. He completed a spinal deformity research fellowship at Rush Medical College, the University of Illinois, and Chicago Shriners Hospital for Children. Since that time, Dr. Bridwell has limited his practice to spinal surgery, mostly complex spinal disorders and spinal deformity surgery.

In 1985, Dr. Bridwell received board certification from the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Bridwell is an active member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the North American Spine Society, the Scoliosis Research Society and the American Orthopaedic Association. He was the local host for the Scoliosis Research Society meeting in St. Louis in 1997.

He has been the chairman of the program and the membership committees for the Scoliosis Research Society and has served on its board of directors. Since 1982, Dr. Bridwell has been an active researcher in the spine field. He has contributed 34 chapters to medical textbooks, 83 articles to scientific peer-reviewed journals, and 172 scientific abstracts/presentations. He is a deputy editor for Spine. Dr. Bridwell is co-editor-in-chief of The Textbook of Spinal Surgery, editions 1 and 2 with the third currently under development.

Dr. Bridwell's clinical practice includes all aspects of spinal surgery, both pediatric and adult. However, the emphasis has been spinal deformity, in particular idiopathic adolescent scoliosis and adult idiopathic scoliosis with superimposed degenerative changes, fixed sagittal and coronal imbalance syndromes and high-grade spondylolisthesis.

Dr. Bridwell is listed in The Best Doctors in America.

Dr. Bridwell is a member of the SpineUniverse Editorial Board.