Positions

Professor of Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Neurosurgery and Pediatrics

Baylor College of Medicine

Chief, Division of Plastic Surgery

Baylor College of Medicine

Josephine Abercrombie Endowed Professor in Plastic Surgery

Baylor College of Medicine

Addresses

Texas Children's Hospital (Hospital)

Mark A. Wallace Tower
610.00
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 822-3180

Education

Clinical Fellowship at The University of Louisville Health Science Center

Louisville, KY

Hand Surgery

Residency at Duke University Medical Center

Durham, NC

Plastic Surgery

Research Fellowship at Duke University Medical Center

Durham, NC

Research Fellowship at St. Vincent’s Hospital Microsurgery Research Centre

Melbourne, Australia

Residency at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

San Antonio, TX

General Surgery

MD from UT Southwestern Medical School

Dallas, TX

BA from The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX

Zoology

Certifications

American Board of Plastic Surgery

Certificate of Added Qualifications in Surgery of the Hand

American Board of Plastic Surgery

Professional Interests

• Surgery of the Hand
• Plastic Surgery

Professional Statement

Dr. Pederson joined Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor in January 2016. With is practice based at Texas Children’s, he broadened the scope of highly-specialized, multidisciplinary care offered to children, adolescents and families who seek treatment at Texas Children’s.

Pederson’s clinical interests include the management of vascular problems in the upper extremity, nerve injury and repair including brachial plexus, Volkmann’s ischemic contracture, facial paralysis and microsurgical reconstruction of complex extremity defects.

A native Texan, he is an honors graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and received his medical degree from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He completed an internship and residency in surgery at The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Pederson continued his medical education with training in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.

Dr. Pederson has served as a Director of the American Board of Plastic Surgery, Inc. and is past President of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery and the American Association for Hand Surgery. He is a long-time editor of Green's Operative Hand Surgery, the standard textbook of hand surgery, and was recently inducted as a Fellow of the American Surgical Association.

Websites

Memberships

American Association of Plastic Surgeons

Fellow

American College of Surgeons

Fellow

American Society for Surgery of the Hand

American Society of Plastic Surgeons

American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery

American Association for Hand Surgery

World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery

Texas Surgical Society

Association of Hand Surgery Fellowship Directors

American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons

American Society for Reconstructive Transplantation

American Board of Plastic Surgery