Dr. Wade Shrader is The Freeman Miller Endowed Chair of Cerebral Palsy at Nemours Children’s Health - Wilmington, Delaware, where he focuses his practice on the treatment of children with cerebral palsy and similar developmental disabilities.   He is also a Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University. 

His undergraduate degree was in aerospace engineering from Mississippi State University, and he worked as a flight engineer at NASA before entering medical school.  He is a graduate of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.  He completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at the Mayo Clinic and his fellowship in pediatric orthopedics and scoliosis at the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas, Texas.   He has served as the Division Chief of Pediatric Orthopedics at Phoenix Children’s Hospital and Children’s of Mississippi, where he was also the Director of Pediatric Rehabilitation.  

Dr. Shrader has served on multiple committees in POSNA, SRS, and AAOS.   He is currently the Deputy Editor for Pediatrics for the Journal of the AAOS and is the Deputy Editor for Neuromuscular for JPOSNA.   He also serves on the National Advisory Board for Medical Rehabilitative Research for NIH NICHD.   He has served the community on the Board of Directors of Family Voices of Mississippi and Raising Special Kids in Arizona.   

Wade is currently on the Board of Directors and the President of The American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.  He and his wife are the proud parents of four children, two of whom have cerebral palsy.