Dr. Brian K. Brighton, MD, MPH

Brian K. Brighton, M.D., MPH, is a board-certified pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Shriners Children's New England. He cares for children and adolescents with a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions, with particular interest in fractures and trauma, bone and joint infections, limb deformity and scoliosis.

Dr. Brighton earned his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine and his master's degree in public health from Boston University School of Public Health. He completed his orthopedic surgery residency at Cleveland Clinic and a pediatric orthopedic surgery fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital.

Before joining Shriners Children's, Dr. Brighton practiced in Charlotte, North Carolina, for more than 15 years, serving as division chief of pediatric orthopedic surgery at Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital and later with OrthoCarolina. Charlotte Magazine repeatedly named him a Top Doctor in pediatric orthopedics.

A national leader in surgical quality and patient safety, Dr. Brighton has chaired the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America's Quality, Safety, Value Initiative and served on its board of directors. With the American College of Surgeons, he has served on the Children's Surgical Data Committee and the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program–Pediatric Steering Committee, and as vice-chair of the program's Data and Definition Committee. He has authored more than 35 peer-reviewed articles and numerous textbook chapters, and has been an invited lecturer and faculty at the International Pediatric Orthopaedic Symposium (IPOS), and at POSNA and NSQIP national meetings.

Dr. Brighton is committed to providing safe, evidence-based, family-centered care to every child he treats. He provides comprehensive surgical and nonsurgical care to children and adolescents with limb length differences, limb deformity and spinal conditions including scoliosis, helping each patient achieve the best possible function and mobility.