Dr. Paul Sponseller is a professor of orthopaedic surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include pediatric spine disorders, cerebral palsy, clubfeet, hip dislocations and hip dysplasia.
Dr. Sponseller serves as chief of the Division of Pediatric Orthopaedics at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
Dr. Sponseller received his B.S. from the University of Michigan. He earned his M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School. He completed his residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics and performed a fellowship in pediatric orthopaedic surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sponseller joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1986.
More recently, he earned and an M.B.A. at the Johns Hopkins University.
How did you become interested in this work?
I was the oldest in a family of 7 kids in Ann Arbor MI and then completed my residency at the University of Wisconsin. I trained under Denis Drummond the year that he was in the Presidential Line of SRS and saw all of the innovation and energy in the field of Spine Deformity. This was also in the period that he developed the Wisconsin Instrumentation, building on Luque’s work.
What impact does your work have?
It helps put young people in the best possible shape to live a healthy, fulfilling life with minimal impairment.
What is your favorite part about working with young people?
Their future potential, which I hope to optimize
Any funny stories from medical school?
We had a yearly comedy show called the “Galens Smoker” where it was OK to lampoon the important professors as hard as we wished. The more stuffy they were, the harder we were!
Hobbies, fun facts?
I Like photography, running and music.
