Orthopaedic Trauma Professional Staff

Michael Weaver, MD is the chief of the Orthopaedic Trauma Service. Dr. Weaver graduated from University of California Los Angeles Medical School and then from the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program. He recently completed a trauma fellowship with our Combined Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship program. Dr. Weaver's clinical interests include treatment of fractures around total hip and knee replacements, periarticular fractures, and fractures of the pelvis and acetabulum.

Nishant Suneja, MD is a fellowship trained Orthopaedic trauma and reconstructive surgeon. He is currently the Director of Complex Orthopaedic Trauma and Deformity Correction at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is part of the Faculty of Medicine of Harvard University.

Dr Suneja specializes in treating traumatically-injured patients with major fractures, dislocations and soft tissue injuries. He treats all fractures including pelvic & acetabular fractures, periarticular and periprosthetic fractures. His clinical interests include limb length and deformity correction, treating nonunions, total hip arthroplasty, shoulder replacement, and treating trauma related infections. His goal is to provide excellent, compassionate, and evidence-based patient care.

Dr Suneja completed his trauma fellowship at the Harvard Orthopaedic Trauma institute at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Prior to this, he completed his undergraduate and medical education at the University at Buffalo in New York where he graduated with academic and research honors. He was the recipient of the prestigious Gold humanism award. He completed his orthopaedic residency training in New York at the Maimonides Medical center where he was selected as the administrative chief resident and received the best resident award. Upon completion of his fellowship, Dr Suneja returned to New York where he was the Chief of Orthopaedic Trauma at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. He covered multiple busy trauma centers treating polytraumatic patients with complex fractures.

Derek Stenquist, MD is a fellowship-trained orthopaedic trauma surgeon specializing in musculoskeletal trauma and post-traumatic reconstruction of the extremities, pelvis, and acetabulum.

He is a Massachusetts native, born and raised in Hudson, MA. He earned his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH and spent a year in Zimbabwe with Grassroot Soccer working on HIV prevention initiatives after college. He returned to Boston to attend Harvard Medical School and stayed for orthopaedic residency at the Harvard combined program where he received training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess, and Boston Children’s Hospital. He completed his fellowship in orthopaedic traumatology and post-traumatic reconstruction at Tampa General Hospital with Florida Orthopaedic Institute under Dr. Roy Sanders.

Arvind von Keudell, MD, is a fellowship-trained board eligible orthopaedic trauma surgeon and a graduate of Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg, Austria. He completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital before starting his residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program (HCORP) at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital. He then underwent subspecialty fellowship training at the Harvard Orthopaedic Trauma Service at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital. Furthermore, he has undergone additional surgical training in hip and acetabular reconstructive procedures in Basel, Switzerland as the AO Jack McDaniel Fellow. Dr. von Keudell’s clinical interests include the treatment of all fractures--including pelvic, acetabular and periprosthetic fractures –and the treatment of post-traumatic osteoarthritis and osteonecrosis of the hip.

The Trauma Fellow, currently Jeffrey Potter, MD, is another important member of our team. The fellow has completed their orthopedic residency training and is now specializing in orthopedic trauma for one year (called a fellowship) in preparation for going into practice as an independent orthopedic surgeon. Our fellow acts like an attending doctor on our service.

Our Physician Assistant, Allyson Reilly, PA-C, specializes in the care of patients with orthopedic injuries. She works closely with all doctors and other clinical providers involved in your care and also works closely with you and your family.

The Orthopaedic Trauma Service enjoys an excellent collaborative relationship with all of the other BWH Orthopaedic subspecialty services. When the Trauma Service encounters complex problems that require additional clinical input, several members of the Orthopaedic Department actively contribute, including Drs. Brandon Earp and George Dyer from the Hand and Upper Extremity Service, Dr. Eric Bluman from the Foot and Ankle Service and Dr. Daniel Estok from the Joint Reconstruction Service.