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Children’s Hospital Colorado
Anschutz Medical Campus
13123 East 16th Avenue
Aurora, CO 80045
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I like to treat my patients the way I would want my own loved one treated and I like to consider the whole patient when designing a treatment plan.
Get to know Star Nixon, MD
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Experience and background
Neuromuscular disorders, limb deformities, metabolic bone disease, and trauma. I also enjoy caring for patients with connective tissue disorders like Ehlers-Danlos.
Undergraduate 2000
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (NC)
Undergraduate 2002
University of North Carolina–Wilmington (NC)
Graduate 2007
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Medical Education 2007
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Residency 2012
University of Colorado
Fellowship 2013
University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers Program
Preceptor of the Year 2021
University of Louisville Orthopedic Surgery Residency
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