Dr. Jessica L. Hughes

Ozgur Dede, MD, is a double fellowship trained, board-certified pediatric orthopaedic and spine surgeon at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Dede earned his medical degree from Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey where he also completed his orthopaedic surgery residency training. He pursued subspecialty training in pediatric orthopaedic surgery and spine surgery in the United States and completed 4 years of surgical fellowship training at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children, and the UCSF Spine Center. His clinical interests include treatment of spinal problems in children including scoliosis, spondylolysis, spondylolisthesis, cervical instability, disc herniation and spinal stenosis. He also treats neuromuscular conditions including cerebral palsy and spina bifida, arthrogryposis and other syndromic afflictions.  His research interests include the non-operative and operative management of all types of pediatric scoliosis as well as management of hip and lower extremity deformities in children with spasticity. View Dr. Dede’s full list of publications from PubMed. Dr. Dede is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Claw Foot. His top areas of expertise are Scoliosis, Spondylocarpotarsal Synostosis Syndrome, Caudal Regression Syndrome, Osteotomy, and Spinal Fusion.

Zeynep Olgun is a Pediatric Orthopedics specialist and an Orthopedics provider in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Olgun is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Claw Foot. Her top areas of expertise are Scoliosis, Claw Foot, Clubfoot, Osteotomy, and Spinal Fusion. Dr. Olgun is currently accepting new patients.

Jan S. Grudziak, MD, PhD, was born and raised in Poland and completed his pre-med and medical graduate school at the K. Marcinkowski University School of Medicine in Poznan, Poland. His special interests included congenital hip and foot deformations, adolescent scoliosis, and adolescent and pediatric sports medicine. In 1991, he finished and defended his doctorate thesis about genetic, demographic, and treatment variables influencing the final treatment outcome of congenital clubfeet. Dr. Grudziak came to Pittsburgh to participate in research projects at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He repeated his orthopaedic residency at UPMC and completed his pediatric orthopaedic fellowship at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. He currently serves as medical director of Children's Sports Medicine at UPMC Children's Hospital and an assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Grudziak contributed to a pioneering surgical approach for the treatment of the dysplastic hip-the Dega transiliac osteotomy. This operative technique has become one of the standard procedures in the treatment of the dysplastic hip. His clinical practice focuses on adolescent and pediatric sports injuries of the knee, ankle, elbow, and shoulder. View Dr. Grudziak's full list of publications from PubMed. Dr. Grudziak is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Claw Foot. His top areas of expertise are Osgood-Schlatter Disease, Osteochondritis Dissecans, Congenital Femoral Deficiency, and Claw Foot.