25 of the Best Pediatric Orthopedic Doctors Near Me in silver spring, MD

Laura L. Tosi, MD, is the director of the Bone Health Program at Children’s National Hospital. Her practice focuses on orthopaedic management of children with physical disabilities and birth defects. Dr. Tosi also works to increase physician awareness of bone health issues for women and children, with the goal of reducing debilitating bone injury as the population ages. Dr. Tosi also treats children and adults with spina bifida and other congenital orthopaedic problems. Dr. Tosi has lectured extensively on women’s bone health, particularly osteoporosis prevention, to women’s organizations throughout the United States. Dr. Tosi is a member of the Committee on Women’s Health Issues for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and serves on the Boards of Directors for the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation and the Academic Orthopaedic Society. Specialties: Rare Bone Disease, Bone Health, and Trauma. Dr. Tosi is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses PIK3CA-Related Overgrowth Spectrum, Acromicric Dysplasia, Hypochondroplasia, and Brachydactyly Type A2. Dr. Tosi is board certified in Orthopaedic Surgery: American Board Of Orthopaedic Surgery, 1986.

Jana Qiao is a Pediatric Orthopedics specialist and a Pediatric Sports Medicine provider practicing medicine in Silver Spring, Maryland. Dr. Qiao is board certified in American Board Of Family Medicine, 2023 and American Board Of Family Medicine, 2024. Dr. Qiao is currently accepting new patients.

Fellows are fully credentialed, board-certified providers who can independently practice medicine but are in further training in their specialty. This specialty training is under the supervision of an attending physician.

Lauren Sabot, FNP-BC, is a family nurse practitioner at Children's National Hospital in Division of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine. Lauren grew up in Laurel, MD and then went on to nursing school at Towson University. She worked for several years at Howard County General Hospital and an outpatient eye surgical center before returing to graduate school. She completed her master's degree from George Mason University in 2022. Lauren currently lives in Rockville with her husband and their French bulldog Luna. Some of her favorite hobbies include figure skating/ice dancing, hiking and traveling. Dr. Sabot is board certified in Family Nurse Practitioner: American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), 2022.

As division chief of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine at Children’s National Hospital, Matthew Oetgen, MD, MB., oversees Washington, D.C.’s, most comprehensive program focused on the orthopaedic needs of children. As a practicing orthopaedic surgeon with a busy clinical practice, Dr. Oetgen is an expert in the unique challenges of delivering such care to kids, whose bodies, bones and connective tissue are still growing and changing. Dr. Oetgen joined the faculty at Children's National in 2009 after completing the Dorothy and Bryant Edwards Fellowship in pediatric orthopaedic surgery and scoliosis at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas, Texas. He became division chief at Children’s National in 2015, and now leads development of innovative clinical and research programs that streamline care for children with complex orthopaedic needs. As the division’s research director, Dr. Oetgen strongly advocates for greater collaboration between clinical service delivery and research to drive improvements to pediatric orthopaedic care. Under his leadership, Children’s National created the Spinal Fusion Surgical Home, the first of its kind in the U.S. focused specifically on pediatric patients. Launched in 2016, the program has led to significant decreases in average length of stay and patient pain scores for children with idiopathic scoliosis. Dr. Oetgen has authored more than 60 book chapters and publications and presented at many major conferences in his field both domestically and internationally. He is an active research scientist in the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, and is a principal investigator on several grant-funded clinical studies. Dr. Oetgen is also a key member of the multidisciplinary clinical trial team that was the first to apply magnetic resonance guided high-intensity focused ultrasound (MR-HIFU) to non-invasively relieve osteoid osteoma tumors in children. As an associate professor of pediatrics and orthopaedics at the George Washington University (GW), Dr. Oetgen’s expertise and mentorship in pediatric orthopaedics is recognized by his students, peers and colleagues. He is also a Joseph E. Robert, Jr. professor of orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine. In 2017, he was elected to the board of directors of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA), one of the world’s largest organizations dedicated to pediatric orthopaedic practice, and he has served as an invited reviewer for some of the pediatric orthopaedic field’s most respected journals. Dr. Oetgen completed medical training at Georgetown University and residency at Yale University, and also holds three master’s degrees, including a master’s in business administration from GW. Specialties: Spine, Hip, and Trauma. Dr. Oetgen is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Clubfoot, Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis, Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis, Spinal Fusion, and Osteotomy. Dr. Oetgen is board certified in Orthopaedic Surgery: American Board Of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2011. Dr. Oetgen is currently accepting new patients.

Megan Young, MD, is a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Children’s National Hospital and assistant professor at George Washington University with a special concentration in limb lengthening and complex lower extremity deformity reconstruction. Her other areas of interest include orthopedic injuries, growth arrest problems, limb deficiencies, developmental hip dysplasia and clubfoot. She completed orthopaedic residency training at Boston University and subspecialty training in pediatrics at the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, where she learned from experts at the Center for Excellence in Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction. Dr. Young was named the 2019 Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society Traveling Fellow and spent time with leaders in the field learning new advanced techniques to offer patients and families in the DC Metro area. Dr. Young was also selected as a Traveling Fellow for the Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America in 2015 and visited a number of hospitals throughout South America lecturing on the history of limb lengthening and sharing knowledge of novel internal techniques to lengthen bones. She has a passion for traveling and has volunteered time caring for children around the globe including Honduras, Guatemala and the Caribbean. She enjoys developing longstanding relationships with her patients and prides in the ability to give children back a functional quality of life. Outside of the hospital Dr. Young maintains an active lifestyle enjoying paddleboarding, kayaking, hiking, yoga and spending quality time with her young daughter and husband. Specialties: Limb Lengthening and Deformity. Dr. Young is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Knock Knees, Clubfoot, Congenital Femoral Deficiency, and Kohler Disease. Dr. Young is board certified in American Board Of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2014.

Laurel Blakemore, MD, has joined Pediatric Specialists of Virginia as chief executive officer, and is charged with continuing the successful growth and development of this exciting collaboration between Children’s National Hospital and Inova. This unique collaboration leverages the resources, talent and expertise of these two great institutions, bringing together the area’s premier pediatric specialists to provide the best care possible for the children of Northern Virginia. Dr. Blakemore earned her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, and graduated from medical school at the University of Alabama She returned to the University of Michigan to complete her residency in orthopedic surgery followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Orthopedics at Case Western Reserve University. In 2003, she was selected as an American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Leadership Fellow, a highly competitive program for developing orthopedic leaders. In 2004, she was recruited from the faculty at the University of Michigan to serve as chief of Orthopedic Surgery at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. During this time there from 2004-2013 she greatly expanded the size and scope of the orthopedic program at Children’s National Hospital. She then established a pediatric orthopedic program at the University of Florida, where she was named the inaugural Shriners Endowed Professor of Pediatric Orthopedics and established a model pediatric orthopedic program supported by the Shriners Hospital system. She returned to Pediatric Specialists of Virginia at the close of 2020. As a surgeon Dr. Blakemore is recognized internationally as a leader in the care of complex spine deformities in children. She has published multiple peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters. She serves as an associate editor for Spine Deformity and reviewer for other peer-reviewed journals, and has served as a visiting professor national and internationally on multiple occasions. She has served on the board of directors for the Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America and the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS). She is currently the Secretary and Governance Council Chair for the SRS, the first female elected officer for that society. Her clinical practice is based in Northern Virginia and at Children’s National, caring for children with spinal conditions as well as general pediatric orthopedic conditions. She participates in international study groups focusing on pediatric spinal deformity and continues to contribute to areas of research to improve the orthopedic care of children. Dr. Blakemore is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis, Clubfoot, Spinal Fusion, and Osteotomy. Dr. Blakemore is board certified in Orthopaedic Surgery: American Board Of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2000. Dr. Blakemore is currently accepting new patients.

Marin Malone, CPNP, is a nurse practitioner graduate from the Catholic University of America. Her background includes an undergraduate degree at Virginia Tech (Go Hokies!) where she studied health and nutrition, followed by an accelerated nursing program at the George Washington University. For the past six years, Marin was a nurse in the Children's National emergency department where she specialized in acute trauma and emergency care. She will be transitioning to her new role as a nurse practitioner in the orthopedics department. Her clinical expertise encompasses Freiberg's Disease. Dr. Malone is board certified in Primary Care Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (CPNP-PC): Pediatric Nursing Certification Board, 2023 and Pediatric Nursing Certification Board, 2018. Dr. Malone is currently accepting new patients.

Specialties: Trauma and Spine. Dr. Sellier is board certified in Physician Assistant: National Commission On Certification Of Physician Assistants, 2009.

Mary Cornaghie, MD, is a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Children’s National Hospital. She grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, before moving to Houston, Texas, to attend Rice University. She then obtained her medical degree at Baylor College of Medicine and completed her orthopaedic surgery residency training at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas. She then completed additional expertise fellowship training in pediatric orthopaedics at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Cornaghie specializes in cerebral palsy and other neuromuscular conditions, foot deformities, and general pediatric orthopaedic care and trauma. Dr. Cornaghie is a candidate member of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA). She has presented research, published orthopaedic journal articles and authored orthopaedic textbook chapters. When she is not at the hospital, she enjoys pilates and yoga, baking cookies, hiking in the DMV area, exploring the Washington, D.C., restaurant scene, and spending time with her husband and cat. Dr. Cornaghie is board certified in American Board Of Orthopaedic Surgery.