Our 'Inside the Lab' series features the innovative research projects Duke Department of Orthopaedic Surgery students, faculty, and staff are actively pursuing this year.
Today, meet the Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery Research Team. Medical student, John Atwater, has been working with their research group during his MS3 year, focusing on healthcare equity in idiopathic scoliosis through institutional retrospective studies and reviewing a national database to study trends of spinal fusion over the past 20 years.
In addition, he has been instrumental in enrolling patients for our group’s psychological well-being studies and orchestrating a Duke University–Stanford University collaboration to perform 3D body scans of scoliosis patients to investigate a new screening tool.