Kristen L. Carroll, MD
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- English
Kristen Carroll, M.D., grew up in Massachusetts and went to Brown University (BA English literature and neuroscience) and then attended Albany Medical College. From age 7 through medical school, she competed and coached as a professional water skier. She then moved to Utah for her residency, followed by fellowship at the University of Utah training at both Shriners Children's Salt Lake City and PCH. She joined the University of Utah in 1996, working at both Primary Children's Hospital and Shriners Children's. Over the past 10 years, she has focused more on children with neuromuscular disease such as cerebral palsy, myopathies and neuropathies.
Dr. Carroll has served as chief of staff at Shriners Children's Salt Lake City since 2014. She became a full professor of orthopedics in 2015. She received the Sherman S. Coleman Presidential Chair in pediatric orthopedics in 2019. She has served as chair, or member, of the committee for residency selection for the University of Utah for 25 years. Now, she is chair of the University of Utah Committee on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
Dr. Carroll has been married to Steve Bott, M.D., (cardiac anesthesia and medical director of the Air Medical Team for the University of Utah) since 1994. They have two sons, Finn, and Ryan.
Pediatric Care
Specialties
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Orthopedics
WHERE I PROVIDE CARE
More About Me
- American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery - General
Medical Education
Albany Medical College
Albany, NY
5/24/1990
Internship
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, UT
6/30/1991
Residency
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, UT
6/30/1995
Fellowship
Primary Children's Medical Center
Salt Lake City, UT
United States of America
7/31/1996
University of Utah Orthopaedics
Clinical Professor
- 2014-Present: Chief of Staff, Shriners Children's Salt Lake City
- 2015-Present: Professor, Clinical Track University of Utah Department of Orthopedics
- 2019-Present: Sherman S. Coleman Presidential Endowed Chair, Pediatric Orthopedics
- Chair, University Of Utah Department of Orthopedics Committee on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- 2016-Present: Physician Executive Council, Shriners Children's
- Co-Chair, Shriners Children's Cerebral Palsy Research Group
- 2016-2020: Reviewer, Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics
- 2020-Present: Editor, JPO
- Presidential Endowed Chair UU
- 2012-Present, American Orthopedic Association
- Alpha Omega Alpha
- Lecture: McGill - Wrong Side Surgery and Metacognition (03/2021)
- Lecturer: McGill - Survivorship of Hip Stability in GMFCS 4 and 5 Patients with CP (03/2021)
- Presentation: POSNA 2020 - Survivorship of Equinus surgery in Ambulatory CP (2020)
- Presentation: POSNA 2021 - Survivorship of the Hip Stability in CP (2021)
- Presentation: AACPDM 2020 - Hip Stability in CP (2020)
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