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Holly Tyler-Paris Pilson, MD, FAAOS, FAOA, ABOSD
  • Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
Holly Tyler-Paris Pilson, MD, FAAOS, FAOA, ABOSD

Holly Tyler-Paris Pilson, MD, FAAOS, FAOA, ABOSD

  • Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
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Education
MD, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2008
Internship
General Surgery, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2009
Residency
Orthopaedic Surgery, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2013
Fellowship
AO Trauma, John Hunter Hospital, 2014
Orthopaedic Trauma, Sonoran orthopaedic Trama Surgeons, 2014
Board Certifications
American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery
Memberships
Southern Orthopaedic Association
Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society
J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society
Association of American Indian Physicians
Orthopaedic Trauma Association
AO North America
Gold Humanism Honor Society
Positions
Vice Chair, Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
Departments and Affiliations
Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
Maya Angelou Research Center for Healthy Communities (MARCH)

Research

  • Publications
  • Intrawound Tobramycin Plus Vancomycin to Prevent Surgical Site Infection in Tibial Fractures: The TOBRA Randomized Clinical Trial. , O'Toole RV, O'Hara NN, Carlini AR, Schrank GM, Chung S, Gary JL, Obremskey W, Matuszewski PE, Teague D, Natoli RM, Gitajn IL, Weaver MJ, Renninger CH, Levack AE, Degani Y, Collins SC, Weston-Farber E, Howe AL, Thompson RE, Castillo RC, Karunakar MA, Blum L, Harmer L, Hsu JR, Kempton LB, Phelps KD, Seymour RB, Sims SH, Acharya MS, Callahan H, Chavez-Araujo LM, Churchill C, Gambuzza MP, Haim KR, Ishman E, Kendall JS, Mullis ND, Young C, Pilson HT, Carroll EA, Goodman JB, Holden MB, Jones AL, Moon C, Lin CA, Marecek GS, Moffitt GB, Conlan T, George AV, Fisher LA, Mullin DS, Recendez CL, Aneja A, Brameier DT, Heng M, Ly TV, Stenquist DS, Suneja N, Wignakumar T, Borgida JS, Policicchio TJ, Hanson GR, Alese OM, Ricci WM, Behrens SB, Dvorzhinskiy A, Bilodeau RE, Klinger CE, Mullis BH, Jang Y, Lopas LA, McKinley TO, O'Neill DC, Szatkowski JP, Virkus WW, Hill LC, Gaski G, Hymes RA, Ahn J, Goch AM, Holzman M, Malekzadeh AS, Schulman JE, Rivera JC, Krause PC, Bridgman C, Cohen J, Eikani C, Chavez M, Kudulis M, Warner SJ, Achor TS, Choo A, Eastman JG, Kellam PJ, Boutte SJ, Guevara KD, Reid KR, Vallier HA, Tucci AV, Davis JM, Bell AC, Bonyun ME, Healey K, Li V, McKibben NS, Nascone J, Okhuereigbe D, Sciadini MF, Slobogean G, Zingas N, Kovvur M, Lawrence JE, Phipps H, Rudnicki J, Turner KE, Hayda R, Evans AR, Quinnan S, Benitez A, Rehman S, Soderquist MC, Townsend CB, Caroom C, Collins AC, Okwumabua E, Shaikh HS, Spitler CA, Agarwal A, Johnson MD, Haller JM, Marchand LS, Alfonso NA, Gorman MA, Charlton WM, Scott BR, Kraus KM, Meredith SJ, Talwar S, Bergin PF, Jha AJ, McGee S, Nehete PV, Pryor TA, Spears I, Chen AT, Kelley B, Nez NR, Ertl WJ, Hull BR, Blumenthal S, Patterson JT, Flynn C, Ross RC, Agarwal A, Weiss DB, Hadeed MM, Yarboro SR, Daoud T, McVey ED, Whiting PS, Domes C, Goodspeed DC, Kuhn GR, Boyce R, Libos A, Mitchell PM, Moreno-Diaz AF, Ponce RB, Stinner DJ, Tatman LM, Velasco-Castro J, Trochez K, Satpathy J, Zuelzer DA, Potter BK. JAMA. 2026 May; 335(18):1586-1595.
  • Anatomical considerations in fixation of sternal fractures and nonunions. Barr E, Griff S, Henry K, Sangio C, Bullock G, Lata A, Pilson H. Injury. 2025 Dec; 56(12):112848.
  • Technical Trick: Dual Plating with Medial Twist Plate of Distal Femur Fractures. Yancey HB, Smith MC, Andring NA, Raiford ME, Babcock S, Halvorson JJ, Pilson HT, Carroll EA. J Orthop Trauma. 2025 Mar;
  • Oral vs Intravenous Antibiotics for Fracture-Related Infections: The POvIV Randomized Clinical Trial. , Obremskey WT, O'Toole RV, Morshed S, Tornetta P, Murray CK, Jones CB, Scharfstein DO, Taylor TJ, Carlini AR, DeSanto JM, Castillo RC, Bosse MJ, Karunakar MA, Seymour RB, Sims SH, Weinrib DA, Churchill C, Carroll EA, Pilson HT, Goodman JB, Holden MB, Miller AN, Sietsema DL, Stahel PF, Mir H, Schmidt AH, Westberg JR, Mullis B, Shively KD, Hymes RA, Konda SR, Vallier HA, Breslin MA, Smith CS, Crickard CV, Reid JS, Baker M, Eglseder WA, LeBrun C, Manson T, Mascarenhas DC, Nascone J, Pollak AN, Schloss MG, Sciadini MF, Degani Y, Miclau T, Weiss DB, Yarboro SR, McVey ED, Firoozabadi R, Agel J, Burgos EJ, Gajari V, Rodriguez-Buitrago A, Tummuru RR, Trochez KM. JAMA Surg. 2025 Mar; 160(3):276-284.
  • Skin Antisepsis before Surgical Fixation of Extremity Fractures. , Sprague S, Slobogean G, Wells JL, O'Hara NN, Thabane L, Mullins CD, Harris AD, Wood A, Viskontas D, Apostle KL, O'Toole RV, Joshi M, Johal H, Al-Asiri J, Hymes RA, Gaski GE, Pilson HT, Carroll EA, Babcock S, Halvorson JJ, Romeo NM, Matson CA, Higgins TF, Marchand LS, Bergin PF, Morellato J, Van Demark RE, Potter GD, Gitajn IL, Chang G, Phelps KD, Kempton LB, Karunakar M, Jaeblon T, Demyanovich HK, Domes CM, Kuhn GR, Reilly RM, Gage MJ, Weaver MJ, von Keudell AG, Heng M, McTague MF, Alnasser A, Mehta S, Donegan DJ, Natoli RM, Szatkowski J, Scott AN, Shannon SF, Jeray KJ, Tanner SL, Marmor MT, Matityahu A, Fowler JT, Pierrie SN, Beltran MJ, Thomson CG, Lin CA, Moon CN, Scolaro JA, Amirhekmat A, Leonard J, Pogorzelski D, Bzovsky S, Heels-Ansdell D, Szasz OP, Gallant JL, Della Rocca GJ, Zura RD, Hebden JN, Patterson JT, Lee C, O'Hara LM, Marvel D, Palmer JE, Friedrich J, D'Alleyrand JG, Rivera JC, Mossuto F, Schrank GM, Guyatt G, Devereaux PJ, Bhandari M. N Engl J Med. 2024 Feb; 390(5):409-420.
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