Faculty

Kent Reinker, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Orthopaedic Service
Email: reinker@uthscsa.edu

Kent A. Reinker came to UTHSCSA in 2001 from Hawaii where he was Chief of Staff at Shriners Hospitals for Children-- Honolulu, serving in that capacity for the past 12 years. Prior to that, Dr. Reinker served as Chief of Orthopaedics at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii. He is an Army retiree with a rank of Colonel. He is a Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon with particular interests in genetic disorders, limb lengthening and reconstruction, etiology of scoliosis, osteomyelitis, Legg-Perthes disease, and telemedicine. He has published extensively, having authored 35 papers and 5 book chapters. He edited the 2001 and 2004 AAOS Pediatric Orthopaedic Self Assessment Examinations. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics and is a reviewer for Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research and for the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgeons. He has been President or Chairman of many organizations, including the Western Orthopaedic Association, the Pan Pacific Surgical Association, and the Hawaii Orthopaedic Association. He currently has committee appointments on the AAOS International Committee, the POSNA Historical archives committee, and the SRS Web Site and Growing Spine Committees. He is from Cleveland, Ohio and did undergraduate training at Yale University, where he was the only physics major on the Yale Daily News. He did medical training at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He completed Orthopaedic training at Tripler Army Medical Center. His hobbies include scuba diving, underwater photography, playing banjo and Celtic harp, and creative writing. He is married with three grown children.

 

Publications:

Yun AG & Severino R, Reinker KA, Varus derotational osteotomy for spastic hip instability: The role of femoral shortening and obturator neurectomy. American Journal of Orthopaedics, 34(2):81-5, February, 2005

 

Yeargan S, Shaieb M, Nakasone C, Montgomery W, Reinker K, Treatment of Chronic Osteomyelitis in Children Resistant to Previous Therapy, J Pediatr. Orthop. January/February 24(1):109-28, 2004

 

Burns C, Powell BR, Hsia YE, Reinker K. Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen syndrome: report of seven patients with the Smith-McCort variant and review of the literature, J Pediatr Orthop. Jan-Feb;23(1):88-93, 2003

 

Cohn DH, Ehtesham N, Krakow D, Unger S, Shanske A, Reinker K, Powell BR, Rimoin DL. Mental retardation and abnormal skeletal development (Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen dysplasia) due to mutations in a novel, evolutionarily conserved gene., Am J Hum Genet. Feb;72(2):419-28, 2003

 

Reinker K, Surgery, in Pediatric Orthopaedic Secrets, 2nd edition , Lynn T. Staheli, Ed., Mosby , 2002

 

Ehtesham N, Cantor R, King L, Reinker K, Powell B, Shanske A, Unger S, Rimoin D, Cohn D. Evidence that Smith-McCort Dysplasia and Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen Dysplasia are allelic disorders that result from mutations in a gene on the long arm of chromosome 18. Am J. Hum Genet Aug 2:71(4), 2002

 

Reinker K, Hsia E, Yuen J, Henry G, Powell B, Rimoin D, Wilcox W. Orthopaedic Manifestations of Marinesco-Sjogren Syndrome. J Pedatr Orthop 22(3):399-403 2002.