About
Dr. Michael Kutschke is an orthopedic and sports medicine surgeon at Scottish Rite for Children who specializes in the treatment of pediatric fractures, traumatic musculoskeletal injuries and sports-related injuries in young athletes. His areas of expertise include pediatric ACL injuries and other knee ligament and meniscus injuries, patellar (kneecap) instability, hip impingement and labral conditions, shoulder instability, and other acute and overuse sports injuries.
Dr. Kutschke’s research interests include pediatric sports injuries, patellofemoral instability, sports biomechanics, knee preservation and orthopedic outcomes. He has published articles in prestigious, peer-reviewed journals on conditions affecting the knee, shoulder and hip. As a former hockey player, Dr. Kutschke is specifically interested in studying and caring for hip conditions in youth ice hockey players, with a goal of reducing injury risk in this population.
He is involved in various professional societies, including the Pediatric Research in Sports Medicine Society (PRiSM), the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS), the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM), the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA), the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS), the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society. He has also presented research at these orthopedic and sports medicine societies’ scientific meetings on a variety of conditions, including surgical fixation of osteochondritis dissecans, ACL reconstruction and contralateral injury risk, and biomechanical and radiologic assessment of the hip.
Dr. Kutschke completed the Orthopedic Sports Medicine Fellowship at Scottish Rite for Children and UT Southwestern Medical Center, as well as an Adult and Pediatric Orthopedic Trauma Surgery fellowship at Brown University.
Publications
Academic Appointment
Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery