Dr. Jan S. Grudziak
Overview
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 Kohler Disease. His top areas of expertise are Osgood-Schlatter Disease, Osteochondritis Dissecans, Congenital Femoral Deficiency, and Claw Foot.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 7 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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Locations
2599 Wexford Bayne Road, Sewickley, PA 15143
205 Millers Run Road, Bridgeville, PA 15017
4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15224
4055 Monroeville Boulevard, Building 1, Monroeville, PA 15146
Clinical Research
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Areas of Expertise
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- AchondroplasiaDr. Grudziak isExperienced. Learn about Achondroplasia.
- Beukes Familial Hip DysplasiaDr. Grudziak isExperienced. Learn about Beukes Familial Hip Dysplasia.
- Claw FootDr. Grudziak isExperienced. Learn about Claw Foot.
- ClubfootDr. Grudziak isExperienced. Learn about Clubfoot.
- Congenital Femoral DeficiencyDr. Grudziak isExperienced. Learn about Congenital Femoral Deficiency.
- HypochondroplasiaDr. Grudziak isExperienced. Learn about Hypochondroplasia.