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Carl L. Stanitski, MD

Dr. Carl L. Stanitski received his bachelor’s degree from Bloomburg State College in Pennsylvania. He worked as a high school teacher of physics and English and coached basketball and track prior to earning his MD degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He completed internship training at Jefferson Medical College Hospital, and residency and fellowship training in Orthopaedic Surgery and Pediatric Orthopaedics at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Southern California - Rancho Los Amigos Hospital and Children’s Hospital, Boston.


Dr. Stanitski served as Clinic Chief, Orthopaedic Surgery for the State of Pennsylvania Crippled Children Program (1984-1991), Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, PA (1980-1991) and as Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit from (1991-1999). Prior to that he was an Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Pittsburgh, and a staff associate at the National Institutes of Health. He has been Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston since 1999. Dr. Stanitski is board certified in Orthopaedic Surgery (1975) and was re-certified with emphasis in Pediatric Orthopaedics (1981) by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.


Since 1988, he has served as an examiner the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery as an oral examiner and as a member of their Written Examination Committee. He also has been Chair of a number of committees of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and served as a National Media and National Science Writers Seminar speaker for the organization.


Dr. Stanitski has also served on a number of editorial boards, including the American Journal of Diseases in Children, Physician and Sportsmedicine, and Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine. He was previously an Associate Editor of Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery and is currently the Features Editor for the Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics.


Dr. Stanitski has been a medical consultant to the National Basketball Association, the U.S. Olympic Training Site and Project Hope American Children’s Hospital in Krakow, Poland. Among others, and has been a team physician for Carnegie-Melon University, Pittsburgh and for the Pittsburgh Penguins Professional Hockey Team. He has been extensively involved as a national and international lecturer on pediatric limb deformities, pediatric sports medicine and knee injuries and pediatric spinal deformities.


Dr. Stanitski resides in Charleston, SC.