Orthopedic

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons honored 33 surgeons with the 2018 Senior Achievement Award Winners and 73 surgeons with the 2018 Achievement Award Winners.

Orthopedic surgeon Gregory Shankman, MD, pleaded guilty April 10 to stealing more than $86,000 in Worker's Compensation funds, WKTV reports.

Dinesh Patel, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital.

After losing his license due to a healthcare fraud conviction, Spyros Panos posed as an orthopedic surgeon to review workers' compensation cases under the name of a former colleague, according to the New York Daily News.

The Orthopaedic Institute, based in Gainesville, Fla., appointed new executive leadership.

Nikhil Verma, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Chicago-based Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush.

Massachusetts Medicaid patients have limited access to physical therapy after ACL reconstruction surgery, according to an Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine study.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario in Canada is investigating orthopedic surgeon Bill Smyth, MD, after reports of sexual harassment and "threatening" behavior toward nurses, The Star reports.

Robin West, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Fairfax, Va.-based Inova Medical Group.

For nearly three decades, Kevin Stone, MD, has been refining the BioKnee program he launched at The Stone Clinic in San Francisco to help patients with arthritis delay or avoid total knee replacement.