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F. Winston Gwathmey, MD

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Virginia, VA, US

Dr. Gwathmey is the son of an Orthopaedic Hand Surgeon and grew up in Norfolk, Virginia. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia (UVA). His medical degree came from Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr. Gwathmey matched into Orthopaedic Surgery residency at UVA. Following residency, he completed a Sports Medicine and Shoulder fellowship in Boston at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also pursued additional hip arthroscopy training with Dr. Thomas Byrd in Nashville, Tennessee.

Dr. Gwathmey returned to UVA on faculty in 2013 and currently is a Professor in the Division of Sports Medicine with a special interest in arthroscopic techniques around the hip. He established the hip arthroscopy program at UVA and currently performs upwards of 200 hip arthroscopic surgeries per year. He is the Orthopaedic Surgery Vice Chair for Education and is the Residency Program Director since 2018. He has won multiple teaching awards including the Mulholland Teaching award, the Charles W. Miller Resident Teaching award, and the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Medical Student Teaching.

He is one of the team physicians for both UVA and James Madison University (JMU). He is active in the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM), the Internationa Hip Preservation Society (ISHA), and the Arthroscopy Association of North American (AANA), and serves as faculty at annual meetings and in surgical skills courses throughout the year.

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