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R. Alexander Creighton, MD

Assistant Professor

Certified the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery

     
Department of Orthopaedics
CB #7055, Bioinformatics Building
UNC School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7055
Appointments: 919.962.6637		 Contact person: Wyomie Milliken (wyomie_milliken@med.unc.edu)
919.966.9066
Education:
  • BS: College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
  • MD: Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA
  • Residency: University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
  • Fellowship (Sports Medicine): RUSH Medical College, Chicago, IL
Honors, Awards, and Recognitions (selected):
  • Alpha Omega Alpha
  • William C. Patton Award for Best Resident Teacher
Special Interests:
Sports Medicine
Academic Appointments:
2004-present Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, UNC School of Medicine
Selected Presentations:
  • Shoulder capsule volumetric change after arthroscopic capsular plication and thermal capsulorrhaphy: A cadaver model. Arthroscopy Association of North America, Washington, DC, April, 2002.
  • The effect of different NKISK injection regimens on in vivo tendon lengthening. Orthopaedic Research Society, Dallas, TX, February, 2002.
  • A 3-dimensional analysis of fatigue effects on scapular kinematics in the overhead athlete. Academic Congress of the Asian Shoulder Association, Seoul, Korea, October, 2002.
  • Biomechanical integrity of human tendons treated with thermal microdebridement: An ex vivo analysis. American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. San Diego, CA, July 2003.
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