Faculty Disclosures

Peter J. Apel, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Virginia Tech Carilion in Roanoke, VA. Dr. Apel is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon and is fellowship trained in both pediatric orthopaedics and hand surgery. He holds an additional certificate of qualification (CAQ) in Surgery of the Hand. His PhD is in Neuroscience (Peripheral nerve injury and regeneration). Dr. Apel has a busy clinical practice of adult and pediatric hand & elbow surgery. This includes surgery of the brachial plexus, peripheral nerves and microvascular surgery. Greater than 95% of his case volume is hand, elbow, brachial plexus, peripheral nerve and microvascular surgery. Dr. Apel performs major limb reconstruction, including nerve repairs, nerve grafting and complex tendon transfers.

Dr. Bachmann grew up in Richmond, VA. He went to medical school at VCU, completed his residency at the Cleveland Clinic and then fellowship in pediatric orthopaedic surgery and pediatric spine surgery at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, CA. He joined the faculty at UVA in 2016.

Dr. Beach attended medical school at Ohio State University, residency at Washington University, St. Louis, MO and Fellowship at ORV.  He has been a member of the AAOS Coding, Coverage and Reimbursement Committee since 1996, Past Chairman of the Health Policies and Advocacy Committee - AANA and AOSSM and a Past President of AANA.

Current medical director of VCU Sports Medicine and head team physician at VCU and Virginia State University.

I am part of the trauma division and hand division at VCU, specializing in both trauma and upper extremity surgery. I routinely treat clavicle fractures, clavicle non-unions, and clavicle pseudarthroses.

Dr. Dhillon received her MD degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2009. She completed her residency in Anesthesiology at the University of Virginia in 2013, and came to Virginia Commonwealth University shortly afterwards in 2014 as an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology. Dr. Dhillon is board certified in Anesthesiology and a fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Her main interest clinically is regional anesthesia and pain medicine, and in 2018, she became head of the departmental division of regional anesthesia. Most of her academic work deals with regional anesthesia and acute pain topics, such as investigating music in the operating room to lessen sedation requirements for patients undergoing joint surgery. She received an honorable mention for "best bedside manner" in 2019 by Our Health Magazine. In 2020, the graduating chief residents gave her the "Best Teacher" award, an honor that ranks highly in her professional career.

Tom Douglas grew up on Long Island and attended undergraduate at Williams College and medical school at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He completed his internship and residency at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Virginia. Following residency he moved to Japan for two years as a general orthopedic surgeon at the U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka. Here he served as the department head of Orthopaedics as well as medical director of the Japanese Internship Program. He then moved to Boston for a year where he completed his fellowship in foot and ankle surgery at Harvard. This was followed by a return to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth as a staff physician. During his time at NMCP he had the privilege to deploy with First Medical Battalion in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan as part of an FRSS/STP in Helmand Province. Currently Dr. Douglas serves as the program director for Orthopaedic Residency at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth.

Aaron Freilich is an associate professor in Orthopaedic surgery at the university of Virginia. He is the director of the Orthopaedic hand and upper extremity fellowship. As a faculty member of a Level 1 trauma center he continues to treat all manner of simple and complex distal radius fractures within his practice.

Dr. Gaski is a board-certified orthopaedic trauma surgeon at Inova Fairfax Medical Campus. Areas of interest and clinical expertise include treatment of pelvic and acetabular fractures, care of multiply injured patients, and nonunion. Research and education are also important aspects of Dr. Gaski’s career. He has published dozens of journal articles, written textbook chapters in the field of orthopedic trauma, and is the editor of Synopsis of Orthopaedic Trauma Management. Dr. Gaski is a principal investigator on several research studies and teaches residents at national fracture courses and the Miller Review Course yearly. Before joining the Inova Fairfax Medical Campus trauma team, he was Program Director of the Orthopedic Trauma Fellowship and Associate Program Director of the Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program at Indiana University. Dr. Gaski went to medical school at Ohio State, residency at the University of Miami, and fellowship at Shock Trauma.

Dr. Gondusky is a hip and knee arthroplasty surgeon with the Jordan-Young Institute in Virginia Beach. He finished a Navy career in 2015, earning the rank of Commander. He completed fellowship at the Hoag Orthopedic Institute in Irvine, CA. He is a recognized expert in knee arthroplasty, as well as complex primary and revision anterior approach hip arthroplasty. He has appointments at the Uniformed Services University and Eastern Virginia Medical School. He is a national lecturer, with research presented at the AAHKS and AAOS Annual Meetings and published in the Journal of Arthroplasty. He is an article reviewer for the Journal of Arthroplasty, Arthroplasty Today and abstract reviewer for the AAHKS annual meeting. He is a committee member for the Adult Reconstruction Hip Program, AAOS Annual Meeting, 2019-2022. He serves as Co-Chair of the Leigh Orthopedic Surgery Center (ASC) Operations Committee and Co-Director of outpatient arthroplasty.

Dr. Gwathmey is an Orthopaedic Sports Medicine surgeon at the University of Virginia specializing in shoulder, hip, and knee injuries. He has additional training and expertise in hip preservation and hip arthroscopy.

4th-year Medical Student from Virginia Commonwealth University-Inova Fairfax Medical Campus who is applying this cycle to Orthopedic Surgery Residency.

Dr. Austin M. Looney, M.D., is an orthopaedic surgery chief resident at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, USA. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Biological Chemistry from the University of Virginia, where he also graduated from the School of Medicine. He plans to pursue a career in orthopaedic sports medicine after completing his fellowship training at the Rothman Institute in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Looney's research includes all areas of sports medicine, with a special interest in meta-analyses.

As an orthopedic hand surgeon at the Carilion Clinic and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, I developed an interest in pain management and responsible opioid prescription, leading to several interdisciplinary research projects. I serve on the Carilion Clinic Opioid Task Force Research Endeavors Subcommittee and founded the Carilion Opioid-Related Research Interest Community (now the Addiction Research Community of the Roanoke Valley, or ARC-RV), an open forum to support research in the field of addiction. My community involvement includes assistance to the Roanoke Valley Collective Response to the Opioid and Addiction Crisis including in the preparation of the Blueprint to Action document, a community-driven plan to abate the opioid and addiction crisis.

Thomas Moran is a PGY-2, resident physician at the University of Virginia Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. He has a particular early interest in orthopaedic sports medicine, and has published a number of papers in this domain, as well as presenting his research in state, regional, and national meetings.

I am an active duty US Navy orthopaedic surgery resident at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. I am currently in a one year research fellowship with a focus on neuromuscular injury at the cell and molecular level with the goal to ultimately improve medical and surgical treatment. In the Center of Excellence in Orthopaedics laboratory in which I work, the principal team has identified and characterized trauma induced changes resulting from traumatic war wounds to include progenitor cells found at the site of injury and changes in gene expression that occur in neuromusculoskeletal tissue. Given elevated TGF-beta levels in the soft tissue of war-traumatized extremities, our group is investigating the effect of TGF-beta inhibitors in an in vitro model of human heterotopic ossification.

Dr. Robinson is committed to helping active adults achieve optimal orthopedic health so that they can continue to participate in the activities that are important to them. After graduating from the University of Virginia, Dr. Robinson studied medicine at Northwestern University before completing his orthopedic surgery residency at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. He then completed a shoulder and sports medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh before joining the Jordan-Young Institute. His experience with athletes of all levels provides him a unique perspective when diagnosing and treating both routine and complex orthopedic problems. Dr. Robinson offers patients a variety of treatment options by applying the concepts of traditional orthopedic surgery, sports medicine fundamentals, cutting edge minimally invasive technology, and innovative joint preservation/joint replacement surgery. He is passionate about patient autonomy - a guiding! principle in contemporary medicine, which encourages patients to actively participate in decisions about their medical care. Dr. Robinson has conducted extensive scientific research, published multiple journal articles, and written several book chapters to advance the field of orthopedics.

Dr. Robert Sershon is a fellowship trained orthopedic surgeon at the Anderson Orthopaedic Clinic specializing in outpatient joint replacement, anterior total hip replacement, robotic knee replacement, and partial knee replacement. His expertise also allows him to serve as referral source for complex and revision joint replacements.

Kristy Weber, MD is the Abramson Family Professor in Sarcoma Care Excellence in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. She is originally from St. Louis, Missouri and attended college at the U. Missouri-Columbia and medical school at Johns Hopkins. Kristy completed her orthopaedic residency training at the University of Iowa and followed that with a 2 year research/clinical fellowship in orthopaedic oncology at the Mayo Clinic. She has worked at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Pennsylvania on faculty. She received the Kappa Delta national orthopaedic research award for this work in 2006. Kristy has served on the Boards of Directors of many national orthopaedic and cancer organizations including the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), American Orthopaedic Association (AOA), Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS), and the Connective Tissue Oncology Society. She spent 4 years as Chair of th! e AAOS Council on Research and Quality where she oversaw initiatives related to clinical practice guidelines, evidence-based medicine, appropriate use criteria, patient safety, biomedical engineering, biological implants and the development of orthopaedic clinician-scientists. She has been President of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society and the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society (RJOS), Secretary of the Orthopaedic Research Society and Critical Issues Chair on the AOA Executive Committee. Kristy recently served as the first woman president of the AAOS (2019). Kristy was selected for the Penn Academy of Master Clinicians in 2017 and received the inaugural Duncan van Dusen Professionalism Award for Faculty in 2019. Kristy is committed to improving the culture of orthopaedic surgery in terms of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Bobby Yow is a resident in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Bobby's research focuses on sports injuries, with a particular interest in shoulder instability. He earned his undergraduate degree from Brown University, and his medical degree from the University of Texas at Houston.