O. Alton Barron Jr., M.D.

O. Alton Barron fellowship-trained shoulder, elbow and hand surgeon. He is an associate affiliate faculty of orthopedics at Dell Medical Center and NYU Langone Health, practicing in both Austin and Manhattan. Barron has been the treating surgeon for the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera for more than 20 years. He publishes and lectures extensively, and has treated thousands of professional musicians. He directs the Musician Treatment Foundation, an Austin-based nonprofit.

Barron is certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery with a certificate of added qualifications in hand surgery. He specializes in routine and complex problems of the upper limb, including all sports injuries, severe arthritis requiring shoulder and elbow arthroplasty, nonunions and malunions of bones, and severe nerve injuries requiring tendon transfers and microsurgery.

A native Texan, Barron earned his undergraduate degree in engineering (with honors) from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Tau Beta Pi. He earned his medical degree from Tulane University where he also completed his orthopedic surgery residency, receiving multiple honors during medical school and residency. Barron completed fellowships in shoulder surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital and hand surgery at Roosevelt Hospital.

Barron has been teaching and conducting research for his entire career and has numerous peer-reviewed journal publications, book chapters and national presentations. He is co-author with his wife, Carrie Barron, M.D., of The Creativity Cure: How To Build Happiness with Your Own Two Hands which was published by Scribner in 2012.

Barron held academic teaching positions in orthopedic surgery at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1998-2014, and the Mt. Sinai Icahn School of Medicine from 2014-15. He was a senior attending physician in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center from 1999-2015, and was a senior attending hand/upper extremity surgeon at the CV Starr Hand Surgery Center at Roosevelt Hospital from 1996-2015.