Brian T. Bucher

Dr. Anderson is a faculty member at the University of Utah Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. He specializes in surgical solutions for degenerative diseases and deformities of the hip and knee including osteoarthritis, AVN, Perthes, SCFE, FAI and hip dysplasia. He performs minimally invasive hip and knee replacement surgery including anterior hip replacement (including bikini incision for women) and partial knee replacements (patellofemoral and unicompartment arthroplasty). He has clinical and research interest in kinematic alignment and medial pivot total knee arthroplasty. He also specializes in complex revision surgery for failed total hip and total knee arthroplasty as well as fractures adjacent to hip and knee replacements. Hip preservation surgeries are an additional area of surgical expertise for Dr. Anderson including PAO (periacetabular osteotomy) for dysplasia, hip osteotomies, and surgical dislocation and mini-open anterior debridement surgeries for FAI (femoroacetabular impingement) and other hip deformities. Dr. Anderson graduated from medical school and completed his orthopedics residency at the University of Utah. He did additional training in arthroplasty of the hip and knee and hip preservation at OrthoCarolinas Hip and Knee Fellowship in Charlotte, North Carolina. He spent two years in private practice in North Idaho before returning to the University of Utah. Dr. Anderson enjoys research and training residents, fellows and medical students in orthopedics and hip and knee reconstructive surgery. Dr. Anderson is from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. He enjoys spending time with his wife and two sons, playing racquet sports, as well as hiking, skiing, biking and climbing in the mountains. He is currently seeing patients at the University Orthopaedic and the University South Jordan Clinic, Primary Children's Hospital, as well as serving our veterans at the VA Hospital. Dr. Anderson's ongoing research on hip and knee surgery can be viewed on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=lucas+anderson

Katie W. Russell, MD is a pediatric surgeon with strong interests in pediatric trauma, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), chest wall deformity, fetal consultation, minimally invasive surgery, and global surgery. Dr. Russell’s clinical interests include pediatric surgical problems such as: pectus excavatum inguinal hernias hydroceles appendicitis vascular access feeding access gallbladder disease childhood cancers She has a particular interest in treating neonatal and pediatric conditions using minimally invasive techniques. She is leading a multidisciplinary clinic dedicated to the treatment of children with pulmonary hypoplasia related to congenital diaphragmatic hernia, congenital lung lesions, and giant omphalocele. Dr. Russell is a leader at Primary Children’s Hospital serving as both the Trauma Medical Director, and the Surgical Director of the ECMO program. She is leading telehealth initiatives to lower cost for families related to travel in both the outpatient and inpatient setting. She is involved in a multi-institutional research collaborative, The Western Pediatric Research Consortium, to push the forefront of rigorous research in pediatric surgical conditions. Dr. Russell has also been active in the field of global surgery. In 2017 she spent two months in the South Sudan with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). She has completed multiple surgical missions in Haiti, Guatemala and Tanzania. She was also on a surgical team that responded in Nepal after the 2015 Earthquake. She intends to continue her efforts in global surgery throughout her career. Dr. Russell earned a B.A. degree in visual art at Brown University and earned her M.D. at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California where she was elected AOA. She completed her general surgery residency at the University of Utah including a 1-year research fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. Eric Scaife. During her research fellowship they completed a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect on patient decision making on cost containment in pediatric appendectomy. She also participated in wilderness medicine research and has continued to teach for the Alaska Mountaineering School and the National Park Service. During her residency she received the Chassin Award for the professionalism in surgery. Dr. Russell completed her fellowship in pediatric surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In her free time, Dr. Russell likes spending time with her husband Dave and their daughter Wild. They love the mountains and skiing and snowboarding.

Debra V. McQuade, Ph.D., M.D. is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine, a member of the Division of Behavioral Health and Pediatric Psychiatry. Dr. McQuade graduated from Albertus Magnus College; she attended the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT, receiving a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology. Later, she attended the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington, CT. She completed Residency training in Adult Psychiatry and a Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire. She has worked in both outpatient and inpatient psychiatric settings, caring for children and adults. She currently works as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Primary Children’s Hospital Center for Counseling. Dr. McQuade is board certified in Adult Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Her clinical interests include mood and anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders as well as other psychiatric and behavioral disorders that manifest during childhood and adolescence.