Director, Limb Lengthening and Complex Reconstruction Center, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
An expert in surgical limb reconstruction, Dr. Sabharwal treats young people who have a wide range of musculoskeletal problems, including limb deformities, limb length discrepancies, and skeletal trauma. His clinical research focuses on pediatric lower limb deformities, including Blount disease, a growth disorder of the tibia that causes bowlegs. He also studies the motivations and impact of orthopedic medicine volunteerism. Dr. Sabharwal is actively engaged in global outreach and bidirectional learning, which aims to enrich medical education by encouraging academic partnerships between institutions with varying resource levels.
Dr. Sabharwal is a past-president of the Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society. He has served as an examiner for the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery since 2010 and is the sole honorary member of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of India. He serves as a deputy editor of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery and is the editor of a comprehensive textbook on lower limb deformities in children. Before joining UCSF, Dr. Sabharwal was a professor and chief of pediatric orthopedics at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School.
