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Brian D. Snyder, MD, MPH
Maurice Edmond Mueller Distinguished Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University College of Engineering
Board-Certified Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston, MA
Brian D. Snyder, MD, PhD, is the Maurice Edmond Mueller Distinguished Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School, a research professor of biomedical engineering at the Boston University College of Engineering, and a board-certified pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Dr Snyder's clinical practice focuses on treating congenital and acquired skeletal deformities that result from neuromuscular diseases, especially with respect to tissue biomechanics.
He has 175 published works and has served as principal investigator or co–principal investigator for numerous National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases grant studies on predicting and preventing fragility fractures due to metabolic bone diseases such as osteoporosis or to acquired bone diseases such as metastatic cancer. He represents the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America and the Scoliosis Research Society to the US Food and Drug Administration and is cochair of the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation Research Program.
Among his numerous honors, Dr Snyder received the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughn Award for outstanding orthopedic research on the use of computed tomography images of affected bones to predict fracture risk, as well as the Scoliosis Research Society Russell A. Hibbs Award for outstanding basic science research.
