Seth Robert Yarboro, MD
Orthopedic Trauma Surgery
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Bio & Overview
Seth R. Yarboro, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in treating patients with injury to the bones, joints and soft tissues, using traditional, minimally invasive and computer-assisted surgical techniques. He sees patients at UVA Musculoskeletal Center.
Yarboro attended medical school at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also completed his orthopedic residency training. Yarboro completed multiple fellowships, including one in orthopedic trauma surgery at UNC Hospital; an AOTrauma Fellowship (training specifically focused on the treatment of fractures) in Hannover, Germany; and a final fellowship in orthopedic trauma and computer-assisted surgery in Ulm, Germany.
At UVA, Yarboro is an active researcher with a variety of interests, including infection prevention, ankle ligament injury, advanced imaging and other trends in orthopedic trauma surgery. He has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, and presents regularly to students and orthopedic surgeons and specialists at conferences across the country.
Academic Information
- Department
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Academic Role
- Associate Professor
- Division
- Orthopedics-Trauma
- Research Interests
- Research interests include outcomes studies, biomechanical testing, and comparison of techniques in the field of orthopaedic trauma. Specific topics that are under investigation at this time include: prevention of infection in open fractures, fixation techniques for ankle syndesmosis injuries, X-ray imaging techniques in the lower extremity, and evaluation of treatment trends in orthopaedic trauma.
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Age Groups Seen
- Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Primary Education
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
- Residency
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
- Certification
- American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (Orthopaedic Surgery)
Highlights
Orthopedic Surgeon Seth Yarboro, MD
I'm Seth Yarboro, I'm an orthopedic surgeon at UVA. Within the trauma division, we take care of a lot of fractures from the pelvis and lower extremities, shoulder and upper extremity fractures, as well as take care of problems that result from fractures such as bones that heal poorly or heal in poor alignment. The joke is that everybody that goes into orthopedics had some orthopedic injuries of their own. I certainly had that. I had the opportunity to play football growing up, and had a lot of friends who had injuries that were positively impacted by orthopedics as well. I see a lot of patients who are recently injured, some that were injured a little further in the past and so, always try to review the injury so that I can understand fully what happened. There's a physical examination, because there's a lot of times we can gain information about the injury from that, that help guide treatment. And then we would review all the options, whether those are non-surgical, surgical, and a lot of that really depends on the nature of the injury. I'm passionate about trying to figure out ways that we can optimize the outcomes for all the specific problems we see within orthopedic trauma. Really trying to sort out at every point in the entire process things that we can do to give them the very best chance for an ideal outcome.
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