Justin Michael Hire, MD, a decorated U.S. Army veteran who is fellowship-trained in pediatric orthopaedics, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon.
An assistant professor in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hire sees patients exclusively at Arkansas Children’s Northwest in Springdale.
“I am so excited for Justin Hire to join our growing team of orthopedic and sports medicine specialists at Arkansas Children’s Northwest,” said Brant Sachleben, MD, chief of pediatric orthopedics at Arkansas Children’s and an associate professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at UAMS. “He is a welcome addition and will complement Dr. Adrienne Koder quite well. Together, they are an awesome team to help take care of the children of Northwest Arkansas, and I couldn’t be more excited.”
Koder, DO, a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon, joined UAMS last fall and also sees patients at Arkansas Children’s Northwest.
Hire is certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgeons and was most recently an assistant professor of clinical orthopaedic surgery in the Pediatrics Department at Women and Children’s Hospital at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, and the Cox Medical Center South in Springfield, Missouri. Previously, he served at the General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, as an orthopaedic staff surgeon and chief of the Orthopaedics and Podiatry Department.
Hire received a medical degree in 2011 from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He then completed an internship in orthopaedic surgery, followed by a residency in orthopaedic surgery, at the Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Fort Gordon, Ga. He went on to complete a fellowship in pediatric orthopaedics from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
Hire was deployed with the Army’s 541st Forward Surgical Team as part of Operation Inherent Resolve in Ash Shaddadi, Syria, in 2017, and was a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon volunteer for CURE International, a Christian nonprofit organization providing medical care to children experiencing primarily orthopedic and neurological conditions, in Malawi in 2020.
Among his service awards are a commendation medal earned during combat, an achievement medal, a combat medical badge, a service medal, and a national defense service medal.