Winter Meeting Faculty
NHMI's Orthopedic Winter Meeting brings sub-specialist expertise to orthopedic providers in this AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM educational opportunity. The 23rd annual meeting will be held at The Conference Center at Stoweflake in Stowe, VT on January 20-21 2023.
Dr. Bryan Bean
New Hampshire Orthopaedic Center, NH
Dr. Bean is a fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeon with NH Orthopaedic Center. He is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. He subspecializes in foot and ankle. He graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. He worked at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii nuclear submarines as a civilian for the Navy and Genentech, a biotech company in San Francisco, CA, prior to medical school. Dr. Bean completed his medical degree from UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He went on to complete an orthopaedic residency at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC, training at OrthoCarolina’s esteemed Foot & Ankle Center, and orthopaedic foot & ankle fellowship at Medstar Union Memorial Hospital, affiliated with Georgetown University and Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, MD.
Dr. Christopher Bono
Massachusetts General Hospital, MA
Harvard Medical School, MA
Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program, MA
Dr. Christopher M. Bono, MD is professor of orthopaedic surgery at Harvard Medical School and Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Bono has been in practice for 16 years in Boston, having started his career at Boston University Medical Center in 2002 and then spending the next 12 years at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He joined the MGH in June, 2018. He is interested and has done extensive work in most areas of spinal surgery, including spinal trauma, infection, tumors, and degenerative conditions. Dr. Bono’s clinical practice currently is focused on cervical and lumbar degenerative processes.
Dr. Bono has also served as the President of the North American Spine Society (2015-2016), the overall program chair of the 2013 Annual meeting of the International Society for the Advance of Spinal Surgery, has chaired numerous committees for both the NASS and AAOS, and was recently appointed Program Director of the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program (HCORP). Dr. Bono has also been very active in medical publishing as he is the Editor-in-Chief of The Spine Journal, has served as the Deputy Editor of CME for the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (JAAOS) and as the Deputy Editor of Orthopaedic Surgery for The Spine Journal, as well as serving as a reviewer on the editorial board of a number of other journals.
Dr. Peter Eyvazzadeh
New Hampshire Orthopaedic Center, NH
Dr. Peter M. Eyvazzadeh MD is a fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeon with NH Orthopaedic Center. He is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. He subspecializes in shoulder, hip, knee and sports medicine. Dr. Eyvazzadeh received his medical degree from Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, completed his orthopaedic surgical training at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, and his sports medicine fellowship training at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore.
Dr. Thomas Fortney
New Hampshire Orthopaedic Center, NH
Dr. Fortney is a fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeon with NH Orthopaedic Center. Dr. Fortney completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. During his residency he served as a team doctor for the Dartmouth College football and men's ice hockey teams. Following residency, Dr. Fortney completed a fellowship in shoulder, elbow, and sports medicine surgery at Columbia University in New York City. During that time, he served as a team physician for the New York Yankees. Additionally, he participated in the care of several NCAA Division-1 teams including the football and basketball teams of Columbia University and Fordham University. He served as a staff physician at New York Yankees spring training and the Major League Baseball International Combine in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. During his fellowship, he spent extensive time training with world-renowned sports medicine and shoulder surgeons Dr. Christopher Ahmad and Dr. William Levine.
Dr. Fortney has a master’s degree from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He graduated from Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine in Huntington, WV where he was inducted as a member of the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) national medical honor society. He is a member of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). Additionally, Dr. Fortney has contributed to numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Sports Medicine (AJSM) and the Orthopedic Journal of Sports Medicine (OJSM).
Dr. Michael Kain
Boston University School of Medicine, MA
Shriners Hospital for Children, MA
Dr. Kain is an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine and a consulting orthopaedic surgeon at Shriners Hospitals for Children. Dr. Kain received his medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University and went on to complete an internship at Boston University Medical Center and Residency at Boston University School of Medicine. In his field he has a variety of research interests including hip, knee and ankle fractures. For his paper “Traumatic brain injury and enhanced fracture healing in a rat model” he received the Smith and Nephew Resident Research Competition Best Trauma paper award and the OREF New England Resident Research Competition First Runner up award. For four years, he was the Chair of the New England Orthopaedic Society and is still a member today.
Dr. Xinning Li
Boston University School of Medicine, MA
Boston Medical Center, MA
Dr. Li is the Fellowship Director and Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Boston University School of Medicine and Team Physician for the Boston University athletics. Dr. Li completed his medical degree at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and then completed a 6 year residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He completed his first fellowship in sports medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Dr. Li completed his second fellowship in shoulder and elbow surgery at the Harvard Medical School (Massachusetts General and Brigham & Women’s Hospital). During this time, Dr. Li spent additional time travelling to France to work closely with two world-renowned shoulder surgeons, Dr. Laurent Lafosse (Annecy) and Dr. Gilles Walch (Lyon) to further advance his training in complex arthroscopic shoulder surgeries and open shoulder reconstruction. Dr. Li was selected to the AOA Resident Leadership Forum and earned membership into the AOA Emerging Leaders program during his residency.
Dr. Li is also very active in research. His research has been published in many of the leading journals in orthopaedic surgery, including The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, The American Journal of Sports Medicine, Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, and the Journal of Orthopaedic Research. He currently sits on the editorial board of three peer-review orthopaedic journals and is an active member of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM), the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), and the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA). In addition, Dr. Li also serves on the reviewer panel for several major peer-reviewed orthopaedic journals (American Journal of Sports Medicine, Orthopedics, Journal of Orthopaedic Research, Orthopedic reviews, and Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy). In 2015, the American Orthopaedic Association selected Dr. Li as one of five Orthopaedic surgeons in the United States and Canada for the North American Traveling Fellowship (NATF).
Dr. Carley Vuillermin
Boston Children's Hospital, MA
Harvard Medical School, MA
Carley Vuillermin, MBBS, MPH, FRACS is an internationally trained, board certified pediatric orthopedic surgeon with a subspecialty interest in deformity and neuromuscular reconstruction. She is an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Vuillermin completed her training as an orthopaedic surgeon through the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and is certified as a specialist in this area by the Australasian Health Practitioners Regulatory Agency and completed additional fellowship training in pediatric orthopaedics, adult and pediatric upper extremity and limb reconstruction in leading centers in Australia and across the United States.
Dr. Vuillermin works full time as an academic surgeon at Boston Children’s Hospital where she is actively involved coordinating aspects of the pediatric orthopaedic fellowship, the Brigham and Women’s combined hand fellowship and provides direct teaching and supervision of fellows, residents, medical and pre-medical students across the domains of research, clinic and in the operating room.
Dr. Vuillermin has received a number of awards for academic excellence and career development based on merit. Highlights have included a Melbourne Award for study in Western Samoa and Trinidad, a John Flynn Scholarship for study in remote Australia, the Albert Coates Award for excellence in post-graduate study in surgical anatomy and the Victorian Regional Training Committee Annual Registrar’s Prize. In 2015, she was awarded a Leadership Development Fellowship to undertake a Master’s in Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health, majoring in Clinical Effectiveness. Most recently, Dr. Vuillermin was awarded the Boston Children’s Hospital Musculoskeletal Career Development Fellowship
