Orthopedic Center

David Stephen Grice, MD
1914-1960

After completing his medical school training at the University of Rochester in 1938. Dr. David Grice became a resident and then chief resident in Orthopedic Surgery at Children’s Hospital Boston.

In 1944, Dr. Grice became a member of staff at Children’s Hospital in Orthopedic Surgery and an Assistant in Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He was also an Associate in Surgery at Peter Brent Brigham Hospital, Associate Director of the Massachusetts Infantile Paralysis Clinics, Orthopedic Consultant to the Mary MacArthur Respirator Unit, a Consultant to the  Crippled Children’s Services and a Lecturer in anatomy at Simmons College. His publications included the many phases of poliomyelitis, its therapy and surgical treatment as well as the procedure of subtalar extra-articular arthrodesis.

In 1958 he was appointed Chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania at which he served two years until he was tragically killed in an airplane crash on October 4, 1960. At the time of his death Dr. David Grice was a member of The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, The American Orthopaedic Association, the Forum Club, and the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.