Dr. Dheera Ananthakrishnan is an orthopaedic spine surgeon, academic leader, and global health entrepreneur with more than two decades of clinical, academic, and operational leadership experience. She is currently a consultant with GIST Consulting in Beverly Hills, California, where she provides medicolegal case review, expert witness analysis, and strategic clinical consulting for healthcare, medical device, and health technology enterprises.  From 2007 to 2023, Dr. Ananthakrishnan served as Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she...

Dr. Nicholas Kusnezov is a premier, nationally-recognized, board-certified, and fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeon currently practicing in Southern California. He specializes in total joint replacement with extensive experience in managing complex sports and traumatic injuries. His interests currently lie in muscle-sparing anterior total hip replacement, state-of-the-art robotic joint replacement, and rapid recovery protocols.  Born on the East Coast, he spent his formative years in southern California, graduating summa cum laude from UCLA bioengineering and AOA from the UCLA David Geffen School of...

Dr. Scott McIntosh Porter is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with more than a decade of experience in general orthopedics, sports medicine, trauma, and complex arthroplasty. He currently practices with Sutter Medical Group in Davis, California, where he has been on staff since 2014, and serves as Chief of Surgery and a member of the Medical Executive Committee at Sutter Davis Hospital (2020–2024). His practice encompasses a high volume of hip, knee, and shoulder replacements, as well as sports medicine, arthroscopy,...