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Mary Ann Keenan to realize his goal of maximizing patient function through a combination of surgery, rehabilitation, bracing and medication. Matching at in his first-choice residency program at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Baldwin continued to work as a physical therapist while in medical school and received the best medical student in surgery award while graduating with honors in the combined MD/MPH program at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. While on his quest to become an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Baldwin carries the physical therapist in him to this day. On the day he accepted an offer to attend medical school he turned down an opportunity to run a physical therapy practice. Baldwin to medical school, which seemed like the logical next step.

While working in physical therapy at Christiana Hospital in Delaware, he found the part of his job that provided him with the greatest joy was the return of function in patients with neuromuscular disorders. Following college, he pursued this passion at Widener University with a degree in Physical Therapy, a career which he enjoyed thoroughly with its direct patient contact and emphasis on functional rehabilitation.

Baldwin knew he was intrigued by the musculoskeletal system. Keith Baldwin, MD, MSPT, MPH, is an orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in the treatment of traumatic, neuromuscular and spinal conditions in children.