David A. Spiegel, MD

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David A. Spiegel, MD, is an attending surgeon in the Division of Orthopaedics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia with expertise in neuromuscular disorders, spine conditions and fractures.

Areas of Expertise: Cerebral palsy, Fractures, Neuromuscular disorders, Scoliosis
Locations: Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care; Specialty Care, King of Prussia; Middleman Family Pavilion

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Appointments, Referrals and Video Visits: 215-590-1527

Background

Dr. Spiegel specializes in neuromuscular diseases, trauma, and scoliosis and is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is a Center for Global Health Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He attended Duke University for college, medical school, and orthopaedic surgical residency training, and then completed both a research and a clinical fellowship in pediatric orthopaedics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

He has also dedicated considerable energy to volunteer work in low and middle-income countries, most frequently Nepal and Iraq. Dr. Spiegel has received five humanitarian awards, including the President's Call to Service Award (2006) by the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation, for 4,000 hours of community service, the Golden Apple Award from Health Volunteers Overseas (2009), and the Humanitarian Award from the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (2013), the Scoliosis Research Society (2016), and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (2017).

Dr. Spiegel has served as an Honorary Consultant in Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at the Hospital & Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled Children in Banepa, Nepal, for more than 20 years and is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq. He has served on the Committee on Children’s Orthopaedics in Underdeveloped Regions of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA) for more than 10 years, and was Chairman for three years. He has also served as Chairman of the Bone and Joint Decade committee and the Global Courses Committee of POSNA. He has been on the Board of Orthopaedics Overseas, Global-HELP, the Ponseti International Association, and Miracle Feet. He served on the International Committee of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and directed their international scholars program for two years.

He has served as a consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Mongolia and Somalia, and was on the steering committee for the WHO’s Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care. He has delivered more than 300 invited lectures, mostly at international venues including Nepal, Iran, Iraq, China, Pakistan, Tanzania, Mongolia and Somalia.

He co-edited a textbook entitled Global Orthopaedics: Caring for Musculoskeletal Conditions and Injuries in Austere Settings (2014), and the second edition has been released in 2019.