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Teaching Staff

Program Leadership

Scott Weiner, M.D.*
Department Chair
Dr. Weiner began his tenure as Department Chair in 2007. Having grown up in northeast Ohio, he returned to Akron to complete his residency at Summa Health after attending the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Subsequently, he completed a Fellowship in Orthopaedic Oncology at the University of Florida. Upon completion of his fellowship, Dr. Weiner was recruited as the Associate Director of Residency Education at Summa, a position he maintained until becoming residency program director in 2003.

Jeffrey Junko, M.D.*
Residency Director
Dr. Junko completed his residency in 2005 at this program, following graduation from Northeast Ohio Medical University in 2000. He then pursued a foot and ankle fellowship at the Universities of Iowa and Utah. As a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he decided to return to the midwest and assume the role of Associate Director of Residency Education at Summa Health in 2006. He was promoted to Residency Director in 2008. 

Matthew Jaykel, M.D.*
Associate Program Director
Dr. Jaykel completed his residency from Western Michigan University in 2019, following graduation from Northeast Ohio Medical University in 2014.  He completed his Spine Fellowship from Duke University in 2020.  In 2022, he took on the role of Associate Program Director for the residency.  

Eric Miller, M.D.*
Orthopaedic Trauma Medical Director
Dr. Miller completed his residency in 2008 at this program, following graduation from Northeast Ohio Medical University in 2003. He then completed a trauma fellowship in 2009 at the University of Texas Southwestern, Parkland Memorial Hospital. He is the Trauma Medical Director for the Department of Orthopaedics at Summa Health.

FOOT AND ANKLE 

Jeffrey Junko, M.D.

David Kay, M.D.

Erin M. Dean, M.D.*

Emily Exten, M.D.*

Jacqueline Tulodzieski-Ahlstrom, DPM

SHOULDER AND ELBOW

Robert Bell, M.D.* -emeritus Division Head 

Curt Noel, M.D.*

Derek Klaus, M.D.*

GENERAL ORTHOPAEDICS 

Mark Musgrave, M.D.

Jonathan Kase, M.D.* 

SPINE

Bradley Inkrott, M.D.* -Division Head

Matthew Jaykel, M.D.

Douglas Ehrler, M.D.*

Scot Miller, D.O.

Rajiv Taliwal, M.D.*

HAND

Derek Klaus, M.D.

John Dietrich, M.D.*

Drew Engles, M.D.*

Thomas J. Reilly, M.D.*-Division Head

Rafal Z. Stachowicz, M.D.*

Nathan Monaco, M.D. *

Dylan Childs, M.D.* -Hand & Plastics

Mollie Manley, M.D.*

TOTAL JOINTS

Kiel Pfefferle, M.D.

Ryan Combs, M.D.*

Phillip Lewandowski, M.D.*

William Scully, M.D.*

Jordan T. Etscheidt, M.D.*

ORTHOPAEDIC ONCOLOGY

Scott Weiner, M.D.*-Division Head

SPORTS MEDICINE

Raymond Acus, III, M.D.*-Division Head

Jovan R. Laskovski, M.D.

Daniel Myer, M.D.*

Kyle Nelman, M.D

William Pakan, M.D.*

Joseph Rabe, M.D.*

Ryan Urchek, M.D.*

ORTHOPAEDIC TRAUMA

Eric Miller, M.D.*

PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDICS at

Akron Children’s Hospital

Mark Adamcyzk, M.D.*

Kenneth Bono, M.D.*

Paul Fleissner, Jr., M.D.*

Kerwyn Jones, M.D.*

William Schrader, M.D.*

Patrick Riley, M.D.*- Education Director

Patrick Riley Jr., M.D.* 

Todd Ritzman, M.D.* 

PRIMARY CARE SPORTS MEDICINE

Nilesh Shah, M.D.*

Robert Crawford, M.D.*

Blossom Heindel, D.O. *
 
 
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