Dr. Christopher D. Casscells, MD

Chris Casscells, M.D., was born and raised in Wilmington, Del. He graduated from Tower Hill School (’71), Yale University (B.S. ’76) and the University of Virginia Medical School in 1981.
He returned to Yale University, where he completed a two-year surgical and three-year orthopaedic residency. During his residency, he trained under Dr. Kristaps Keggi, the Elihu Professor of Orthopaedics at Yale and a pioneer in the minimally invasive anterior approach to total hip replacement. He returned to Wilmington in 1986 and joined the orthopaedic practice of his father, Dr. S. Ward Casscells.
Dr. Casscells was board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgeons in 1989 and recertified in 1998 and 2008. He is president of the Delaware Academy of Medicine and president of the University of Virginia Medical School Foundation Board. He is a fellow with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, a member of the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA), the Eastern …Orthopaedic Association, the Medical Society of Delaware, the New Castle County Medical Society and the Delaware Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

• Select Specialty Hospital Wilmington

Christianacare Wilmington Hospital

501 W 14th St

Wilmington

DE

19801

USA

+13027331000

• Sports Medicine
• Orthopedic Surgery
• Adult Reconstructive Orthopedic Surgery

• Rotator cuff syndrome
• Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
• Osteoarthritis
• Internal Derangement of Knee Cartilage