John Herring, M.D.
Professor

Dr. Herring is the cheif of staff emeritus at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children.  He served as the chief of staff for 34 years.  Dr. Herring is a professor in the department of orthopaedic surgery at UT Southwestern and is an associate staff member at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. Dr. Herring has served as chairman of the Pediatric Committee of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and president of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America. He is editor of the 3rd, 4th and 5th editions of Tachdjian’s Pediatic Orthopaedics textbook.

Medical School

University of Texas at Austin (1963)

Undergraduate

Baylor University (1967)

• Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease
• Spinal Deformity

Featured Publications

Understanding Genetic factors in Idiopathic Scoliosis, a Complex Disease of Childhood

Wise CA, Gao X, Shoemaker S, Gordon S, and Herring JA Current Genomics 2008 9(1) 51-9

Legg-calve-perthes disease: a review of cases with onset before six years of age

Rosenfeld, S.B., Herring, J.A., Chao, J.C. J Bone and Joint Surgery Am December 2007 89 (12) 2712-22

CHD7 gene plymorphisms are associated with susceptibility to idiopathic scoliosis

Gao, X, Gordon D, Zhang, D et al American Journal of Human Genetics May 2007 80 (5) 957-65

Long-term follow-up of progressive macrodystrophia lipomatosa. A report of two cases

Ho, C.A., Herring J.A., Ezaki, M J Bone and Joint Surgery Am May 2007 89 (5) 1097-102

Mutations responsible for Larsen syndrome cluster in the FLNB protein

Zhang, D, Herring, J.A., Swaney, S.S. et al J Medical Genetics May 2006 43 (5) e24

 Featured Books

Tachjdian's Procedures in Pediatric Orthopaedics from the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children

(Ed.) (2016). Philadelphia, Elsevier

Tachdjian's Pediatric Orthopaedics from the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, 5th Edition

(Ed.) (2014). Philadelphia, Elsevier

• AAOS Achievement Award, AAOS 2012
  
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of the German Speaking Countries, 2014
  
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Scoliosis Research Society, 2018
  
• Russell A. Hibbs Basic Science Award, Scoliosis Research Society, 2014 & 2012
  

• Dallas County Medical Society (2000)
• American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons
• Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America
• Scoliosis Research Society
• Texas Orthopedic Association