William Puffinbarger, MD

Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon

Accepting New Patients
Member of OU Health Physicians

4.7 out of 5

(100 Ratings) , 72 Comments

Position: Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon
Primary Specialty: Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery
Languages Spoken: English
Gender: Male

About William Puffinbarger

William R. Puffinbarger, M.D. is a fellowship-trained pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Oklahoma Children's Hospital OU Health. His areas of interest include scoliosis, developmental dysplasia of the hip, clubfeet, pediatric fractures as well as cerebral palsy.

Dr. Puffinbarger earned his medical degree from the OU College of Medicine in Oklahoma City, OK in 1991. He completed his orthopedic surgery residency at the OU College of Medicine in 1996 and continued his specialized education in pediatric orthopedic surgery at Babies and Children's Hospital of New York in New York, NY.

Dr. Puffinbarger currently serves as the medical director of the OU Health Physicians - Children's Orthopedics Clinic at Oklahoma Children's Hospital. He also serves as Course Director for student rotations in Orthopedic Surgery at the OU College of Medicine.

Awards

Best Doctors, 405 Magazine 2022

Health Education

Medical School
Doctor of Medicine University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Oklahoma City, OK

Residency
Orthopedics University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Oklahoma City, OK

Fellowship
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery Babies and Children's Hospital
New York City, NY

Board Certification
American Board of Orthopedic Surgery

Medical Interests Areas of Interest:

Cerebral palsy
Clubfeet
Developmental dysplasia of the hip
Pediatric fractures
Scoliosis

Reviews

07/10/2024

It was our first visit to Dr. Puffinbarger. We liked him and will be making him our doctor.
05/07/2024

Great
03/11/2024

Our experience was fantastic!
03/10/2024

This was our second experience. I was not happy about feeling we were being rushed out of the recovery room and having two bags of items to carry along with having to wheel out my son in a brand new wheelchair that was brought to me while he was in surgery, and then sent down the hall from recovery to make our way out by ourselves to the elevator, down to the second floor, to the pharmacy, which we did not know where it was. I was very uncomfortable wheeling out my son, who was out of it due to just having surgery. I would have been more comfortable with the recovery room nurse making sure we got out okay. I was very nervous and my hands were completely full and I was trying to push my child in a wheelchair out of the facility by myself and I had to ask someone outside to help me break the wheelchair down to get into my car. I feel like the nurse in recovery should have given us more time to discuss the post-op instructions more thoroughly and not to just take me to the hall and tell me to go out a certain door.