Terrance D. Peabody, MD
Currently First President-Elect, Dr. Peabody will serve as
President from June 2012 - June 2013.
Dr. Peabody is the Edwin Warner Ryerson Professor of
Orthopaedic Surgery and chair of the Department of Orthopaedics at
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He also
provides care for patients at Children's Memorial Hospital, and is
a member of the Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center.
Dr. Peabody has served as Chair of the AOA's Academic
Leadership Committee. He has also served on the Audit Committee,
Critical Issues Committee, Finance Committee, and the Distinguished
Contributions to Orthopaedics Awards Committee. Among other
professional societies Dr. Peabody belongs to the AAOS, the
American Medical Association and the North American Musculoskeletal
Tumor Society, where he has served as President.
Dr. Peabody served on the faculty of the University of
Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine from 1994 to 2011, most
recently as the Simon and Kalt Families Professor of Orthopaedic
Surgery and Chief of the Section of Orthopaedic Surgery and
Rehabilitation Medicine. He also held secondary appointments as a
professor of surgery in the University of Chicago Cancer Center and
instructor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Loyola
University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. He earned his Doctor
of Medicine degree and completed his residency and internship
training at the University of California-Irvine, and completed his
fellowship at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
He received his Bachelor's in Biology from the University
of California-Irvine, where he also received his medical degree,
completed an internship and his residency.
Dr. Peabody's research and clinical expertise focus on
limb salvage surgery and functional restoration for adult and
pediatric patients with bone and soft tissue tumors, metastatic
diseases, and severe trauma or infection. A well-published
investigator, Dr. Peabody has served as president of the North
American Musculoskeletal Tumor Society.
