Dr. Sasha Carsen

Orthopaedic Surgeon

MD, MBA, FRCSC

Dr. Carsen is an Orthopaedic Surgeon with a special interest in pediatric, adolescent, and young adult Orthopaedic sports medicine. He has full time clinical practice based at CHEO, and also serves as a consultant at the Ottawa Hospital. He is an Assistant Professor of Surgery within the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Ottawa, and has an active academic and research practice.

Dr. Carsen graduated from McGill medical school after an undergraduate science degree in Kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario. Orthopaedic Surgery training took place here in Ottawa, and was followed by a sub-specialty fellowship year in Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Orthopaedic Sports Medicine at Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital. This was also followed by further fellowship in Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery at UBC and BC Children’s Hospital. Dr. Carsen is active within the Canadian Orthopaedic Association, the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, the Pediatric Research in Sports Medicine group, the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, the Arthroscopy Association of North America, and the Canadian Pediatric Orthopaedic Study Group, to name but a few.

Dr. Carsen will be seeing consultations primarily in the area of pediatric, adolescent, and young adult orthopaedic sports medicine, as well as pediatric orthopaedics.