Assistant Chief of Staff, Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon
Scottish Rite For Children
University of Texas Southwester Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, United States
Brandon Ramo, M.D., is an Assistant Chief of Staff and the Chief Quality Officer at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. He is also a Professor since September 2025 at the UT Southwestern Medical School.
Dr. Ramo received his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and his medical degree from Washington University in St Louis. He completed an orthopaedic surgery residency at Vanderbilt University and a pediatric orthopaedic fellowship at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas, TX.
Dr Ramo’s research career includes publications primarily in the pediatric orthopaedic realm. He has taken pride in mentoring dozens of medical students, clinical orthopaedic research assistants, residents and fellows as authors and his work has primarily focused on the treatment of pediatric orthopaedic injuries and scoliosis. He created a series of monthly research meetings for the spine division at TSRH in 2013 and led the Division of Clinical Scoliosis Research from 2017-2024. He has been honored to be a part of 3 funded research grants from POSNA, SRS, and OREF including serving as a co-investigator on a $240,000 basic science grant examining the genomics of infantile idiopathic scoliosis.
Dr. Ramo is active in the Pediatric Spine Study Group, POSNA and Scoliosis Research Society. He serves as a reviewer for several orthopaedic journals including Journal of Children’s Orthopaedics, Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics and Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery. He has served on the program committee for the International Congress of Early Onset Scoliosis annually since 2015, and he is an active member with a leadership role in the Pediatric Spine Study Group. He has served as course chairman for the POSNA Annual meeting spine subspecialty day and for several Spine Symposia and the Brandon Carrell Visiting Professorship at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital.
As an educator, he enjoys mentoring Orthopaedic residents and fellows a a part of the largest pediatric Orthopaedic fellowship in the country at TSRH. Most recently, he has selected as a 2024 POSNA Traveling Fellow and then participate in the 2025 POSNA Leadership program. As his career has developed with a focus on Early Onset Scoliosis, he has been an invited lecturer on several aspects of this topic for the International Congress of Early Onset Scoliosis, Scoliosis Research Society, and POSNA annual meetings on this topic.
Clinically, Dr. Ramo’s career has slowly evolved from a “general” pediatric Orthopaedic surgeon treating a wide variety of musculoskeletal ailments in children to developing a more specialized practice in scoliosis and specifically the care of children with severe early onset scoliosis, both in the non-operative and operative realm. He finds this patient and family population to be a fascinating, challenging and humbling yet rewarding population to engage with.
Dr Ramo has been happily married to his wife Stacie for 21 years, and enjoys chasing after his 4 children at their soccer games, water polo matches, band performances and busy lives.
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