Joshua S. Murphy, MD, is a Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta with an interest in complex spinal deformities including scoliosis, spondylolysis, and spondylolisthesis, in addition to general and complex musculoskeletal care that includes trauma and lower extremity deformity. Dr. Murphy has a strong research interest and a member of multi-center study groups such as the Pediatric Spine Study Group, which focuses on improving care for children with early onset scoliosis, and Children’s Orthopaedic and Trauma Infection Consortium for Evidence-Based Study (CORTICES) that researches pediatric and adolescent musculoskeletal trauma. He also leads a variety of prospective and retrospective studies within the Children’s System.
Dr. Murphy continues to actively participate in medical innovation and is one of only a few surgeons in Georgia who performs anterior vertebral body tethering—a minimally invasive approach to treating scoliosis in patients with growth remaining. He is actively enrolling patients in multicenter studies and participating in the Post-Market Study with the Harms Study Group in an effort to develop a better understanding of vertebral body tethering treatment for our patients.
He remains active on leadership committees with the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA) and Scoliosis Research Society (SRS). Dr. Murphy is a consulting associate with the Duke University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and an adjunct clinical professor with Emory University School of Medicine where he actively participates in training orthopaedic surgery residents and our pediatric orthopaedic surgery fellows.
In his free time, Dr. Murphy enjoys spending time with his family as well as mountain biking, running, skiing, surfing and traveling.