Shoulder Innovations

Clinical Team

CLINICAL TEAM

A driven, world-class surgeon team

Dr. Peter Johnston, MD

Surgeon Designer
Southern Maryland Orthopedics
Leonardtown, Md.

Dr. Peter Johnston is an orthopedic surgeon in Leonardtown, Maryland. He received his Bachelors of Science degree in Neurosciences at the University of Michigan and MD from Wayne State University. Dr. Johnston completed his Orthopaedic internship at the Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University School of Medicine, residency at the University of North Carolina and spent a year as a fellow at the Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA sub-specializing in shoulder and elbow surgery.

Dr. Stephen B. Gunther, MD

Inventor, Founder
Sentara Healthcare
Charlottesville, Va.

Dr. Stephen Gunther is the founder of Shoulder Innovations, LLC. He received his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School and pursued residency training at the George Washington University Hospital. He completed a fellowship in Shoulder surgery at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, Australia, and he was a faculty member at UCSF-Stanford as Chief of the UCSF Shoulder Service. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia and is affiliated with the Sentara Health System.

Dr. Chris Chuinard, MD

Surgeon Designer
Great Lakes Orthopedics
Traverse City, Mich.

Dr. Chuinard is an orthopedic surgeon in Traverse City, Michigan. He received his medical degree from Louisiana State University, New Orleans. He completed his residency training at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, followed by a Fellowship in Shoulder and Sports Medicine with Professor Pascal Boileau, in Nice, France.

Dr. Robert Tashjian, MD

Surgeon Designer
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

Dr. Tashjian is an Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, UT specializing in shoulder and elbow surgery. Dr. Tashjian received his MD from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA. He completed an Orthopaedic residency at Brown Medical School, followed by an Orthopaedic trauma fellowship at Brown. He completed an additional fellowship in shoulder and elbow surgery at Washington University in St. Louis.

Dr. Jay Keener, MD

Surgeon Designer
Washington University
St. Louis, Mo.

Dr. Keener is Associate Professor and Chief of the Shoulder/Elbow Service, Orthopedic Surgery at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. He received his medical degree from West Virginia University School of Medicine, completed a residency in Orthopaedic surgery at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and a fellowship in Shoulder and Elbow Reconstruction at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Missouri.