Staff Directory

Research Staff Directory

Harry K. W. Kim, M.D.
Director of Research and Director of Center for Excellence in Hip Disorders 
Dr. Harry K. W. Kim is the director of the Sarah M. and Charles E. Seay Center for Musculoskeletal Research at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. He also serves as the director for the Center for Excellence in Hip Disorders at the hospital and as an associate professor in the department of orthopaedic surgery at the UT Southwestern Medical School. Dr. Kim obtained his medical education at McGill University in Montreal, Canada where he graduated with a distinction of University Scholar. He completed his orthopaedic residency training at the University of Toronto and his pediatric orthopaedic fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. During his residency, he obtained a Master of Science degree at the University of Toronto. Dr. Kim previously served as the assistant chief of staff at the Shriners Hospital for Children in Tampa, Florida where he was an active member of the medical staff for more than 11 years. Dr. Kim is a surgeon-scientist who spends his time performing both clinical and bench-top research work. The focus of his research is on understanding a childhood hip disorder called Legg-Calve-Perthes disease and on developing new treatments to improve the outcome of this and other pediatric orthopaedic conditions. Dr. Kim’s clinical interests include Legg-Calve-Perthes disease and other pediatric hip disorders, such as developmental dysplasia of the hip. Dr. Kim is an active member of numerous medical societies and has received numerous awards, including the Arthur Huene Memorial Award for Excellence and Promise in Pediatric Orthopaedics and four Best Basic Scientific Paper Awards from the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America.  
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Richard H. Browne, Ph.D.
Director, project support services
Dr. Richard Browne is a biostatistician in the Research department at TSRHC. He received his undergraduate degree from The University of Missouri - Rolla and completed his graduate work at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Browne has worked in a variety of arenas, including The University of Texas Health Science Center (now Southwestern Medical Center), an Equal Employment Opportunity litigation consulting firm, a major oil company as a management consultant and a full-time private practice. Dr. Browne is a research assistant professor in the department of orthopaedic surgery at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and serves on the school’s Institutional Review Board. He is a member of the American Statistical Association and is an associate member of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America. He serves as a referee for The American Statistician, Spine and The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. Among his honors are membership in Kappa Mu Epsilon mathematics honor society, Phi Kappa Phi scholastic honor society and Who’s Who in America.
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Alexander M. Cherkashin, M.D.
Director, clinical implementation and data management, Center for Excellence in Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction
Dr. Alexander Cherkashin is the director of the division of clinical implementation and data management in TSRHC’s Center for Excellence in Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction. Dr. Cherkashin graduated from Novosibirsk State Medical Academy in Russia in 1983 and began his career at the Ilizarov Scientific Center of "Restorative Traumatology and Orthopedics" in Kurgan, Russia. After being appointed head of the center’s orthopedic department in 1989, his research has been dedicated to computerized outcome studies and distraction osteogenesis-related mistakes and complications. Throughout the past 20 years, Dr. Cherkashin has been an investigator on 19 research projects related to distraction osteogenesis, computerized patient records and outcome studies. He is the co-author of four patents and nine certified inventions related to osteodistraction. He has edited books and multimedia courses on CD-ROM, written 13 book chapters, nine journal articles and numerous abstracts related to distraction osteogenesis.
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Reuel Cornelia, B.S., M.T., A.M.T.
Laboratory manager, cellular pathology
Reuel Cornelia was born in Dumaguete, Philippines, and received his Bachelor of Science degree in medical technology from Silliman University, Philippines. He is a registered member of the Philippine Board of Medical Technologists, American Medical Technologists and the Texas State Society of the American Medical Technologists. He worked for five years in the Philippines as a medical technologist and histotechnologist and worked at the Sultan Qaboos University Hospital in Muscat, Oman, for 10 years as a histotechnologist specializing in immunocytochemistry and electron microscopy. He joined the staff of TSRHC in 2001 and has been involved in various projects for clinical and research studies.
Office: (214) 559-7877 or (800) 421-1121, ext. 7877

Marina Makarov, M.D.
Director, soft tissues adaptation, Center for Excellence in Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction
Dr. Marina Makarov is the director of the laboratory of soft tissues adaptation to distraction osteogenesis in the Sarah M. and Charles E. Seay Center for Musculoskeletal Research at TSRHC. She serves as an assistant professor in the department of biomedical sciences and an adjunct member of the graduate faculty of Baylor College of Dentistry. Dr. Makarov earned her undergraduate and medical degrees in Russia. Subsequently, she received advanced training in electrophysiology at St. Petersburg CME Center and completed a neurophysiology fellowship at the Moscow Academy of Medical Sciences, Russia. Dr. Makarov is recognized for her significant contributions to electrodiagnostic methods in orthopaedics. She pioneered a technique of intraoperative monitoring of the peripheral nerve system during external fixation procedures on the extremities, which has significantly reduced the rate of neurological complications. Later, she expanded her scientific interests toward muscle injury and regeneration. Her discoveries in muscle growth and regeneration under tension stress are critical for the improvement of limb lengthening and reconstruction procedures. Author of book chapters and many journal publications, Dr. Makarov has conducted numerous research studies at both TSRHC and Baylor College of Dentistry and has lectured and taught across the United States and around the world.
Office: (214) 559-7877 or (800) 421-1121, ext. 7877

Michael Orendurff
Director, movement science laboratory
Michael Orendurff is the division director of the movement science laboratory at TSRHC. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Portland State University and his Master of Science from Oregon State University. He worked previously as a clinical biomechanist in the motion analysis laboratory at the Shriners Hospital in Portland, Oregon, and was a research health scientist and director of the motion analysis laboratory at the Center of Excellence for Limb Loss Prevention and Prosthetic Engineering in Seattle. He is a founding member of the Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society and has had three best-paper nominations from the society. His research interests include human movement analysis, clinical decision-making, outcomes assessment and injury prevention. His work has focused on matching technical metrics from computerized movement analysis to real-world performance on typical functional mobility tasks. He is the recipient of the Roger Mann award from the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society for best clinical paper in 2004.
Office: (214) 559-7877 or (800) 421-1121, ext. 7877

David Ross
Director, bioengineering and biomechanics
David Ross joined the staff of TSRHC in 1983. He played an instrumental role in the development of the original gait analysis laboratory and did pioneering work in adapting computers for use by the physically challenged. The hospital received its first patent in 1989 for David’s work in this area. Throughout the years he has worked on numerous projects to benefit TSRHC patients, and several have evolved to become the standard of care. He graduated from the University of Florida with a Master of Fine Arts degree in design.
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Carol A. Wise, Ph.D.
Director, molecular genetics
Dr. Carol Wise is director of molecular genetics at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Texas A&M University and a doctorate degree in biochemistry from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. She completed postdoctoral fellowships in human molecular genetics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Dr. Wise is associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and holds a secondary appointment in the McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Dr. Wise’s research focuses on identifying genetic causes of pediatric orthopaedic conditions. Her work includes the discovery of a gene responsible for an inherited form of severe juvenile arthritis, molecular characterization of an inherited pediatric skeletal disorder, and the discovery of the first reported gene associated with common forms of scoliosis. She has published 41 peer-reviewed papers and eight book chapters and holds a patent titled “Genetic Marker for Autoimmune Disorder.” She holds memberships in various professional societies, including the Scoliosis Research Society, The Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, the American Society of Human Genetics and the Texas Genetics Society, where she served as 2007-2008 president. In 2007, Dr. Wise was a finalist of The Dallas Morning News “Texan of the Year” award, she received the “Texas Trailblazer Award” from The Family Place in 2008 and she was selected for the “100 Women, 100 Years” award from the YWCA of Metropolitan Dallas.
Office: (214) 559-7877 or (800) 421-1121, ext. 7877

Fan Yang, M.D., M.S.
Manager, tissue culture core facility
Dr. Fan Yang is a molecular and cell biologist in the research department at TSRHC. She received her graduate degree from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Yang has academic and industrial research experience in the medical and biological fields with numerous peer-reviewed publications and various presentations at international and national meetings. Upon joining the staff of TSRHC, she has helped to establish the standard tissue bank core facility, developed new protocols, standardized procedures for processing clinical surgical tissue samples and supported many research needs and projects.
Office: (214) 559-7877 or (800) 421-1121, ext. 7877

Johnny Zhang, M.D.
Director, creative innovations, Center for Excellence in Spine Research
Dr. Hong "Johnny" Zhang is the director of creative innovations for the Sarah M. and Charles E. Seay/Martha and Pat Beard Center for Excellence in Spine Research at TSRHC. He earned his medical degree at Tianjin Medical University in Tianjin, China. He completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at Tianjin Hospital in Tianjin, China. His interests are research of spinal deformities, growth modulation for the correction of early-onset spinal deformities and thoracoscopic approaches to the spine. He has written and co-authored many peer-reviewed scientific papers in the orthopaedic field and is a member of the Orthopaedic Research Society and the Scoliosis Research Society. He serves as an assistant professor in the department of orthopaedic surgery at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Office: (214) 559-7877 or (800) 421-1121, ext. 7877