Jason Howard, MD
Jason Howard (MD) is the Division Chief of Orthopedic Surgery and Interim Chief of Rehabilitation Medicine at Sidra Medical and Research Center. He is a Pediatric Orthopedic and Spine Surgeon specializing in the treatment of spinal deformity (e.g. scoliosis), neuromuscular disorders (e.g. cerebral palsy), pediatric trauma, and general pediatric orthopedic conditions. He completed his Orthopedic Surgery Residency Training at the University of Calgary in Canada and holds a Clinical Fellowships in Pediatric Orthopedics and Pediatric Spine. He was also the Japanese Pediatric Orthopedic Association’s 2004 International Traveling Fellow.
Dr. Howard has specific surgical interests in neuromuscular and idiopathic scoliosis surgery (including early-onset scoliosis), single event multi-level surgery for gait correction and hip reconstruction in cerebral palsy, treatment of long bone deformities in osteogenesis imperfecta, and innovative techniques for upper and lower extremity fracture management.
He has held several academic medicine positions in the past including Assistant Professorships in the Faculties of Medicine at both Dalhousie University and IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Canada and the University of Calgary’s Alberta Children’s Hospital. He has been extremely active in residency and medical school teaching within these institutions and currently with Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar. He was also the former Clinical Director for the C.H. Riddell Movement Assessment Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital where he helped develop the Centre into a world-class clinical gait laboratory. Dr. Howard also has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and recently finished a graduate program in Biodesign through the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at Stanford University in the US with a focus on the development and commercialization of new medical technologies.
He is a member of numerous clinical associations including the Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America, the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, the Canadian Pediatric Spinal Deformity Study Group, the Canadian Spine Society, and the Canadian Orthopedic Association.
