About William C. Pederson, MD
William Pederson, M.D., a highly-regarded pediatric hand surgeon, joined Texas Children’s in January 2016, further expanding the highly-specialized, multidisciplinary care offered to children, adolescents and families who seek treatment at Texas Children’s. Pederson’s clinical interests include the management of vascular problems in the upper extremity, nerve injury and repair including brachial plexus, Volkmann’s ischemic contracture, facial paralysis and microsurgical reconstruction of complex extremity defects. A native Texan, he is an honors graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and received his medical degree from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He completed an internship and residency in surgery at The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Pederson continued his medical education with training in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina and was a Christine Kleinert Fellow in hand surgery in Louisville, Kentucky. Following this, he completed a one-year fellowship in microsurgery at St. Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.