Alexander Richard Vaccaro

Dr. Alexander Richard Vaccaro, III, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., F.A.A.O.S., F.A.C.S., is an orthopedic surgery expert witness from Pennsylvania. His expertise also includes spinal cord injuries and business administration. He has active medical practitioner’s licenses from the states of Pennsylvania, California, Delaware, Hawaii, New York and New Jersey. He is also certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. He completed his schooling in 1979 from the Pascack Valley Regional High School in New Jersey and subsequently completed his B.S. in Biology, Summa cum Laude in 1983. He then earned his M.D., cum Laude in 1987 from the Georgetown University School of Medicine. He then completed internship in Surgery in 1988 and residency in Orthopedic Surgery in 1992 from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at Los Angeles, California and the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Affiliated Programs. He further completed fellowship in Spine in 1993 from the University of California at San Diego. He also completed his Ph.D. in 2007 and his Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in 2015 and from the University of Utrecht at Utrecht, the Netherlands and the Temple University Fox School of Business at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Currently, Dr. Vaccaro is the Chairman of Orthopaedics at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College and the Richard H. Rothman Professor and Chairman at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Thomas Jefferson University. He is the fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons. He also has numerous publications to his credit. He currently resides in Philadelphia and can be contacted by (267) 339-3500