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.

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.

Derek enjoys all facets of orthopaedic trauma care, with particular interests in upper and lower extremity fractures, pelvis and acetabular fractures, and hip arthroplasty. He speaks English and Spanish and looks forward to providing compassionate musculoskeletal trauma care to patients from all over New England. He considers it a privilege to care for trauma patients during a difficult time in their lives and enjoys working with them to restore the sense of hope that comes with recovery

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.