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MEET Cecilia Pascual-Garrido, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Adult Reconstruction- Adolescent and Hip Orthopedic Surgeon
OREF Osteoarthritis Grant 2023
Awarded 2023 AAOS Hip Award
- OREF Etiology of Hip OA William Harris Grant 2022
Otto Aufranc Hip Society Research Award 2022 and 2025
- OREF Friedenberg Clinician Scientist Grant 2021
Awarded 2021
AOSSM Cabaud Memorial Award
NIH Funded K08 Award 2020
Dr. Pascual has been recently awarded by the prestigious NIH to investigate the mediators of Osteoarthritis in the Pre-Arthritic Hip.
Recent Published Articles
Dr Pascual and team reported, for the first time, on early epigenetic changes that occur in FAI hip disease.
News
Dr. Pascual Garrido Awarded 2025 Otto Aufranc Hip Society Research Award.
Patient Resources
Cecilia Pascual-Garrido, MD, PhD
Dr. Pascual-Garrido earned her PhD at Universidad Catolica and her MD at René Favaloro Medical University, both in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She completed residency training in orthopaedic surgery at Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. Following her residency, she pursued a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Biochemistry department and a research fellowship in the Cartilage Restoration Center in the departments of Orthopedics and Anatomy and Cell Biology, both at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She then completed fellowship training in Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York and Adult Reconstruction and Hip Preservation at the University of Colorado Hospital in Boulder.
Dr. Pascual-Garrido has team physician experience, serving as the Assistant Team Physician for the New York Mets, New York Knicks and the US Open in 2011 and 2012. Prior to joining Washington University Orthopedics, Dr. Pascual-Garrido was an Associate Professor in Hip Preservation at the University of Colorado for 2 years. At the University of Colorado, she treated high-performance athletes including Olympians, college athletes and amateurs. She was also awarded with the ANCHOR hip preservation travelling fellow where she spent time at Boston Children’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School and Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota learning the contemporary management of the young adult hip.
For the past decade, Dr. Pascual-Garrido has been part of the faculty in the Orthopaedic Department at Washington University in the field of Adult Reconstruction and Hip Preservation where she currently holds the title of Associate Professor. She is an accomplished complex hip surgeon who treats young and adult patients with hip pre-osteoarthritic and advanced osteoarthritis. She performs adult hip reconstruction and hip preservation procedures, including open and arthroscopic complex hip procedures, direct anterior and posterior total hip replacement, revision arthroplasty, PAO, hip arthroscopy, core decompression, proximal femoral osteotomies and hip surgical dislocation.
Dr. Pascual-Garrido has a broad background in basic sciences and clinical orthopedics research with a specific focus on mechanism of disease in the pre-arthritic hip, specifically epigenetic changes that occur in the pre-arthritic hip. She has more than 125 publications in highly rated journals, authored several book chapters, served on the editorial boards of several journals and currently serves on the prestigious AOSSM research committee. Dr. Pascual-Garrido has been awarded with the prestigious ANCHOR Harris Hip Award in Hip Preservation. She also is a member of the following organizations: Academic Network of Conservational Hip Outcomes Research (ANCHOR), American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS), American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS), American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM), International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS), International Society for Hip Arthroscopy (ISHA), Orthopedic Research Society (ORS) and Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society (RJOS). Dr. Pascual-Garrido serves as Director of the ANCHOR fellowship as well.
Over the last ten years, Dr. Pascual has led a basic science lab and has also developed a small animal model of FAI that she will be using as a platform to study progression of hip OA. She has secured extramural funding from the NIH, as well as multiple OREF and AOSSM grants. Dr. Pascual-Garrido is a nationally recognized leader in the field of Hip Preservation and has been awarded by the AAOS for Award of Excellence, the Lee T. Ford Academic Award, the William Harris Career Development Award in Hip Preservation from the ANCHOR Group and the AOSSM Cabaud Memorial Award. She is also a two-time recipient of The Hip Society’s Otto Aufranc Award for her work on “Identification of Key Molecular Players in the Progression of Hip Osteoarthritis through Transcriptomes and Epigenetics” and “DNTM3A-PPARy Signaling is a Key Epigenetic Mechanism of Hip OA Disease: A Potential Therapeutic Target for Hip OA.” Her vision is to utilize her research findings to improve clinical practice and ultimately better patient’s outcomes.
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The hip is a ball and socket joint comprising of the femur (thigh bone) and the pelvic bone. The head of the femur (ball) articulates with a cavity (socket) called the acetabulum in the pelvic bone...
Patient Reviews
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In January of 2017, Lydia Druin was training to qualify for a prestigious dressage competition. 
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I highly recommend Dr Cecilia Pascual-Garrido. She is a fantastic surgeon who gave me a best case scenario with my hip. My pain is nearly gone. She was professional at all times and she answered my questions. Appointments werent had to schedule. Her follow up care was responsive.
-Charlie M.
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I would recommend Dr Pascual-Garrido without hesitation.
-Aaron N.
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Outstanding researcher and surgeon. I would recommend it without hesitation.
-Cirugias S.
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Hip procedure gets a soldier's career back on track. Alternative to hip replacement makes one gentleman Army Strong
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Cyclist back on track after hip grafting procedure at UCH?. Transplant of juvenile cartilage turns back the clock
Feature News
Dr. Pascual-Garrido joined other members of the ANCHOR Study Group at the ISHA Annual Scientific Meeting of the Hip Society October 17-19, 2024. Dr. Pascual-Garrido and her team were the only female podium surgeons (Women of ANCHOR), where they presented on Sex-Based Differences in the Pre-Arthritic Hip.
Dr. Pascual-Garrido was invited Professor at the Japanese Orthopedic Meeting in Kobe, Japan on October 4-6, 2024. She presented her work on “The Pre-Arthritic Hip: from Bench to Bedside.”
