Robert M. Bernstein, MD
Director, Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
Associate Director for Administration, Cedars-Sinai Orthopaedic Center
Robert Matthew Bernstein, MD is Director of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery and Associate Director for Administration at the Cedars-Sinai Orthopaedic Center. In addition, he is a member of the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center and Cedars-Sinai Orthopaedic Center. He also is the orthopaedic surgeon for the Skeletal Dysplasia Clinic and the Marfan's clinic, and the pediatric orthopaedic surgeon for the Charcot-Marie-Tooth/Hereditary Neuropathies Center at Cedars-Sinai. He serves as a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Hereditary Motor-Sensory Neuropathies Foundation and the Little People of America (LPA).
Board certified in orthopaedics, Dr. Bernstein is internationally recognized as an expert in the areas of scoliosis and spinal deformity, hip dysplasia, clubfeet, children's fractures, limb lengthening, children with limb deficiencies, arthrogryposis and other skeletal dysplasias, and the Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. He is deeply involved in medical outreach to third world countries, and has developed a program in collaboration with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center entitled Mobile Pediatric Orthopaedic Education (MoPOEd), which teaches sustainable pediatric orthopaedics in the developing world.
Dr. Bernstein's research findings have been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery, Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics, Spine, Journal of Orthopedic Trauma, Current Opinion in Orthopaedics and the American Journal of Orthopaedics. In addition, Dr. Bernstein has written a number of chapters for various orthopaedic textbooks and has lectured internationally.
Dr. Bernstein is a member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, the Scoliosis Research Society, the Association of Children's Prosthetic and Orthotics Clinics and the Western Orthopaedic Association.
Dr. Bernstein received his medical degree from the University of Southern California School of Medicine. He completed an internship at the University of South Florida and an orthopaedic residency at the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He also completed a fellowship in pediatric orthopaedics at Children's Hospital in Boston and a fellowship in spine surgery at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.
