Nileshkumar M. Chaudhari
MD

  • Orthopedic Surgery, Hand, Upper Extremity/Foot and Ankle Surgery Houston Hand & Foot Orthopedics

Education

  • 1993-1998

    Medical School

    M.B.B.S.; South Gujarat University, Government Medical College Surat, India

  • 1998-1999

    Internship

    Government Medical College/New Civil Hospital Surat, India

  • 2000-2003

    Residency

    Orthopedics - Master of Surgery South Gujarat University Government Medical College Surat, India

Education

  • 2009

    Flap and Microvascular Surgery

    Director: Dr. Eben Rosenthal, MD University of Alabama at Birmingham, 8/2009-10/2009

  • 2008-2009

    Director: Thomas R. Hunt, III

    University of Alabama at Birmingham, 8/2008-7/2009

  • 2007-2008

    Foot and Ankle (Orthopedic Surgery)

    Director: Angus McBryde, MD American Sports Medicine Institute Birmingham, Alabama, 8/2007-7/2008

  • 2006-2007

    Musculoskeletal Oncology

    Director: Joseph Benevenia, MD University of Medicine and Dentistry at New Jersey Newark, New Jersey, 8/2006-7/2007

  • 2005-2006

    Foot and Ankle (Orthopedic Surgery)

    Director: John S. Gould, MD American Sports Medicine Institute Birmingham, Alabama, 8/2005-7/2006

LECTURES:

Hand Fellowship Lectures: Last 3 years.
Scheduled Lectures, 2018-19
Distal Radius Fractures, August 17, 2018
Carpal Fracture, October 5, 2018
Soft Tissue Coverage of Hand, November 16, 2018
Congenital Hand Differences, January 18, 2019
Tetraplegia, April 12, 2019
Presented Lectures, 2017-18:
Distal Radius Fractures, October 13, 2017
Carpus Fracture, November 3, 2017
Soft Tissue Coverage of Hand, January 5, 2018
Tetraplegia, June 22, 2018
Presented Lectures, 2016-17:
Distal Radius Fractures, September 7, 2016
Carpus Fracture, November 2, 2016
Soft Tissue Coverage of Hand, January 4, 2017
Tetraplegia, June 21, 2017

Foot and Ankle Fellowship Lectures: Last 3 years

Soft tissue Coverage, Foot and Ankle, April, 2019
Soft tissue Coverage, Foot and Ankle, April, 2018
Soft tissue Coverage, Foot and Ankle, April, 2017

Profile

Dr. Nilesh Chaudhari is a board certified Orthopedic Surgeon who specializes in Hand, Upper Extremity, Foot and Ankle and Microsurgery. Dr. Chaudhari, a former faculty at an Academic center, has trained various Hand, Foot and Ankle Surgeons who practice throughout the US. He recently moved to Houston Metro area and started Houston Hand & Foot Orthopedic practice to help citizen of the South, Central and Southeastern area of Houston metroplex.

MEDICAL SPECIALTY: Orthopedic Surgery Hand, Upper Extremity and Microvascular Surgery Foot and Ankle Surgery
HOSPITAL AFFILIATION: Memorial Hermann Hospital Southeast, Houston, TX HCA Houston Hospital, Clear Lake, Webster, TX HCA Houston Hospital, Pearland, TX Memorial Hermann Hospital, Pearland, TX Houston Physician Hospital, Webster, TX Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
PAST HOSPITAL AFFILIATION: UAB University Hospital, Birmingham, AL UAB Highland Hospital, Birmingham, AL Children's of Alabama hospital, Birmingham, AL Vattern's Affair Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama

Awards/Honors:

Second Place in AOS Yelton Outstanding paper award: Nilesh Chaudhari, Brooks Ficke, Erin Ransom, Distal Radius Fracture Treatment with a Staged Protocol of External Fixation Followed by Open Reduction Internal Fixation. Alabama Orthopedic Society Annual Meeting, Point Clear, Alabama, May, 2016.
Paper award: Grady Maddox, Jonathan Ludwig, Eric Craig, David Woods, Aaron Joiner, Nilesh Chaudhari, Gene Siegal , Alan Eberhardt , Brent Ponce; Flexor Tendon Repair with a Knotless, Bidirectional Barbed Suture: An in Vivo Biomechanical Analysis;, Alabama Orthopedic Society Annual Meeting, Birmingham, Alabama, April, 2014
American Sports Medicine Society Annual Research Award: Nilesh Chaudhari, Ramon Rodriguez, Glen Fleisig, John S. Gould; Biomechanical Comparison of Plantar - to - Dorsal and Dorsal - to - Plantar Screw Fixation Strength for Subtalar Arthrodesis, 2006-2007

Professional Societies:

  • American Association of Orthopedic Surgery (AAOS)
  • American Society for Surgery for the Hand (ASSH)
  • American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS)
  • American Sports Medicine Fellowship Society
  • American medical Association (AMA)
  • Medical Association of the State of Alabama (MASA)

Memberships, Councils And Committes:

  • 2011-13: Committee Member:
    Pre-anesthesia Check Testing PAC(T) Clinic Pilot Project, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • 2015-Present:Committee Member:
    Orthopedic Clinical Care services

Teaching:

Resident Education:

Mentoring PGY2 and PGY5 years resident, 2 months rotation
Mentoring PGY1, PGY2: in ER during level 1 Hand calls
Mentoring PGY4, PGY5 residents: during on call surgeries.

List of Past Mentee Residents (Who became Hand Specialist, since 2009):

  • Grady Maddox, MD (Graduation year 2014)
  • Brooks Ficke, MD (Graduation year 2016)
  • Jonathan Ludwig, MD (Graduation year 2016)
  • Jospeh Ingram, MD (Graduation year 2017)
  • Luke McFadden, MD (Graduation year 2017)
  • Erin Ransom, MD (Graduation year 2018)

List of Current Mentee Residents (Who have decided to become Hand Specialist):

  • Sierra Phillips, MD (PGY5)
  • Jonathan Yu, MD (PGY4)
  • Allison Hunter, MD (PGY4)
  • Christopher Beaumont (PGY3)

List of Past Mentee Hand Fellows:

  • Ross Dunbar, MD (Graduation year 2018)
  • William Zimmerman, MD (Graduation year 2018)
  • Ashley Bentley, MD (Graduation year 2018)
  • Brooks Ficke, MD (Graduation year 2017)
  • Michael Moustoukas, MD (Graduation year 2017)
  • Brent McCarty, MD (Graduation year 2017)
  • James Moss, MD (Graduation year 2016)
  • Christopher Maugans, MD (Graduation year 2016)
  • Eric Marinew, MD (Graduation year 2016)
  • May Young, MD (Graduation year 2015)
  • Michael Paxten, MD (Graduation year 2015)
  • John McGuigan, MD (Graduation year 2015)
  • Michael Worrell, MD (Graduation year 2014)
  • Kent Lord, DO (Graduation year 2014)
  • William Bell, MD (Graduation year 2014)
  • Carol Meyer, MD (Graduation year 2013)
  • John Houghtaliing, MD (Graduation year 2013)
  • Craig Carter, MD (Graduation year 2013)
  • Alex Coleman, MD (Graduation year 2012)
  • James Piorkawski, MD (Graduation year 2012)
  • Ali Kilic, MD (Graduation year 2012)
  • James Howell, MD (Graduation year 2011)
  • Michael Kuremski, MD (Graduation year 2011)
  • Brad Stephens, MD (Graduation year 2011)
  • Jeff Stucki, DO (Graduation year 2010)
  • Nicholas Cook, MD (Graduation year 2010)
  • Kyle Herron, MD (Graduation year 2010)

List of Current Mentee Hand Fellows:

  • Erin Ransom, MD
  • Karlee Lau, MD
  • Brent McCarley, MD

National Level Teaching:

Moderator: 2 hours Instructional Course Lecture, # 126, in American Association of Orthopedic Surgeon's annual meeting in March 6, 2018, New Orleans, LA. Received 4.4 score (out of 5) for entire course and 4.3 (out of 5) as a moderator from the attendees.
Moderator: 2 hours Instructional Course Lecture, #324, in American Association of Orthopedic Surgeon's annual meeting in March 16, 2017, San Diego, CA. Received 4.3 score (out of 5) for entire course and 4.23 (out of 5) as a moderator from the attendees.
Moderator: 2 hours Instructional Course Lecture, #345, in American Association of Orthopedic Surgeon's annual meeting in March 3, 2016, Orlando, FL. Received 4.2 score (out of 5) for entire course and 4.0 (out of 5) as a moderator from the attendees.
Topic: Why I Cannot Fix this Distal Radius Fracture with Volar Plate? This course helped understanding many practicing and training Orthopedic surgeons the concepts for fixation of distal radius fracture, one of the most common fractures in body.
Invited Speaker: Clinical Orthopedic Society Meeting, Point Clear, AL, 2009 Topic: Carpal Instability.
Invited Grand Round Speaker: University of South Alabama, July, 2014 Topic: “Unstable distal radius fracture: Volar plating is not always the answer”,

Local and Regional Teaching:

Grand Round Speaker: University of Alabama at Birmingham, October, 2015 Topic: “Use of volar plate is not always the options for complex distal radius fracture fixation”
Invited Grand Round Speaker: Emergency Department, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2013 Topic: Fight bite injury in Hand.
Grand Round Speaker: University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2008 Topic: Thumb Basal Joint Arthritis.
Grand Round Speaker: University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007 Topic: Tibio-talo-calcaneal joint arthrodesis
Moderator: Southeastern Foot Club Meeting, San Destin, FL, 2010 Topic: Achilles Tendon Rupture

International Teaching:

Invited Surgeon and Volunteer: Surgery Performed; “Vascularized bone grafting for AVN scaphoid using 4-5 ICSRA”, South Gujarat Association of Orthopedic Surgery; Surat, India, December 22, 2018
Invited International Speaker and Volunteer: Common Hand Trauma and Treatment Approach; Gujarat Polio Foundation, Ahmedabad, India, January 16-21, 2017
Invited International Speaker: The 1st Annual World Congress of Orthopaedics-2014, Xian, China, September, 2014.
Topic: Sympathectomy for vasospastic conditions of upper limb”
Invited International Faculty: Distal radius symposium; Indian Orthopedic Society annual conference; Chennai, India, December 2012 Topic: Distal Radius fracture symposium
Invited International Speaker: South Gujarat Orthopedic Society CME meeting, Surat, India, 2012 Topics: Thumb Basal Joint Arthritis
Scaphoid fracture and Non union
Avascular Necrosis of Scaphoid
Wrist Arthritis
Distal radius fracture

RESEARCH

Peer Review Publications:

McCarley M, Hunter AM, McKissack H, Shah A, Oakes J, Chaudhari N, Sherrill J. A Novel External Fixation Technique for Injuries of the Proximal Interphalangeal Joint.
Tech Hand Up Extrem Surg. 2019 Dec;23(4):176-181. PMID: 31738739
Staggers JR1, Pearson JM1, Chaudhari NM1. Capillary Hemangioma of the Finger in an Adult after a Burn: A Unique Case Mimicking Pyogenic Granuloma. J Orthop Case Rep. 2019 Jan-Feb;9(1):3-5.
Ficke B, Ransom E, Hess M, Moon A, McKissack H, Shah A, Chaudhari N. Outcomes of Staged Treatment for Complex Distal Radius Fractures
Cureus, 2018 September 10; 10(9): e3273. doi:10.7759/cureus.3273
Odom C MD, Ficke B, Dahlgren N, Patel HA, Buddemeyer K, Farnell C, Shah A, Chaudhari N; Extradigital Glomus Tumor with Atypical Neuritis Presentation;
Cureus. 2018 Jun 13;10(6):e2794. doi: 10.7759/cureus.2794; PMID: 30116673
Marshall T, Momaya A, Eberhardt A, Chaudhari N, Hunt TR; Biomechanical Comparison of Volar Fixed-Angle Locking Plates for AO C3 Distal Radius Fractures: Titanium Versus Stainless Steel with Compression; J Hand Surg Am. 2015 Oct;40(10):2032-8; PMID:26253601.
Maddox GE, Ludwig J, Craig ER, Woods D, Joiner A, Chaudhari N, Killingsworth C, Siegal GP, Eberhardt A, Ponce B; Flexor tendon repair with a knotless, bidirectional barbed suture: an in vivo biomechanical analysis; J Hand Surg Am. 2015 May;40(5):963-8; PMID:25747739.

Review article Publications:

Nilesh Chaudhari, MD; James Piorkowski, MD; Techniques for Soft-tissue Coverage of the Foot and Ankle; Orthopaedic Knowledge Online Journal; Volume 13, Number 6 - June 2015; DOI:10.5435/OKOJ-13-6-3.
Chaudhari NM, Gould JS; Pedicle and free flaps for painful nerve; Foot Ankle Clin. 2011 Jun;16(2):339-43; PMID: 21600453.

Book Chapters:

Brooks Ficke, Nilesh M. Chaudhari; Wrist dislocation; Orthopedic Hand Trauma; Wolters Kluwer; 2018
Michael Moustoukas, Nilesh M. Chaudhari; Perilunate Dislocation; Orthopedic Hand Trauma; Wolters Kluwer; 2018
Kathryn Bentley and Nilesh M. Chaudhari; Distal Radius Fractures; Orthopedic Hand Trauma; Wolters Kluwer; 2018, page 254-267
Jonathan Ludwig, Nileshkumar Chaudhari; Inflammatory Arthritis of the Hand; Orthopedic Surgery Clerkship; Quick Reference Guide for Medical Students; Springer, 2016; page 245-247
James McFadden, Nileshkumar Chaudhari; Degenerative Arthritis of the Hand; Orthopedic Surgery Clerkship; Quick Reference Guide for Medical Students; Springer, 2016; page 241-243
Brooks Ficke, Nileshkumar Chaudhari; Nerve Injury Orthopedic Surgery Clerkship; Quick Reference Guide for Medical Students; Springer, 2016; page 229-232
Erin Ransom, Nileshkumar Chaudhari; Extensor tendon injuries of Upper Extremity; Orthopedic Surgery Clerkship; Quick Reference Guide for Medical Students; Springer, 2016; page 225-228
Nilesh M. Chaudhari, Mohamed Khalid, Thomas Hunt, III; Vascularized bone grafting and capitate shortening osteotomy for treatment of Kienbock disease; Operative Technique of Orthopedic Surgery, Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2015; Second Edition; Chapter 23, page 2755-2762.
Nilesh M. Chaudhari, Mohamed Khalid, Thomas Hunt III; Corrective osteotomy for metacarpal and phalangeal mal-union; Operative Technique of Orthopedic Surgery, Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2015, Second Edition; Chapter 39: page 2913-2920.
Nilesh M. Chaudhari, Mohamed Khalid, Thomas Hunt, III, Vascularized bone grafting and capitate shortening osteotomy for treatment of Kienbock disease; Operative
Technique of Orthopedic Surgery, Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2010; First edition; chapter 24, page 2305-2313,
Mohamed Khalid, Nilesh M. Chaudhari, Thomas Hunt III; Corrective osteotomy for metacarpal and phalangeal mal-union; Operative Technique of Orthopedic Surgery, Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2010, First Edition; Chapter 40: page 2452-2459.

Podium Presentations:

Ficke B, Ransom E, Hess M, Moon A, McKissack H, Shah A, Chaudhari N.; Outcomes of Staged Treatment for Complex Distal Radius Fractures; Annual Meeting; Mid America Orthopedic Association; Destin, FL; April 11, 2019
Nileshkumar Chaudhari, Brooks Ficke, Erin Ransom, Ashish Shah Matthew Hess, Chason Farnell, Andrew Moon; Outcomes of Staged Treatment for Complex Distal Radius Fractures; Annual Meeting; American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery, Las Vegas, NV; March 13, 2019
Ficke B, Ransom E, Hess M, Moon A, McKissack H, Shah A, Chaudhari N.; Staged Treatment of Complex Distal Radius Fractures: Outcomes and Complications”; Annual Meeting, American Association of Hand Surgery, Palm Desert, CA, January 31, 2019
Nilesh M Chaudhari, MD, Angus McBryde Jr, MD, Chris McMichael, MPH, and Anna Johnson, MD; Outcome Analysis of Distal Chevron and Akin Osteotomy for Hallus Valgus Correction: A Retrospective Study; Annual Meeting, Southern Orthpoedic Society; Palm Beach, FL; July 11-14, 2018
Nilesh Chaudhari; How to deal with common work-related hand and foot injuries: Alabama Self Insured Association meeting, Birmingham, AL, April, 2017
Tyler Marshall, Nilesh Chaudhari, Casey Wise, Thomas Hunt; Volar Plate Fixation of Complex Intra-Articular Distal Radius Fractures: A Biomechanical Study; Alabama Orthopedic Society Annual Meeting, Birmingham, Alabama, April, 2014
Maddox GE, Ludwig J, Craig ER, Woods D, Joiner A, Chaudhari N, Killingsworth C, Siegal GP, Eberhardt A, Ponce B; Flexor tendon repair with a knotless, bidirectional barbed suture: an in vivo biomechanical analysis; Alabama Orthopedic Society Annual Meeting, Birmingham, Alabama, April, 2014.
Nilesh Chaudhari, Ramon Rodriguez, Glen Fleisig, Johan Gould; Biomechanical Comparison of Plantar - to - Dorsal and Dorsal - to - Plantar Screw Fixation Strength for
Nilesh Chaudhari; Subtalar Arthrodesis, Podium presentation; Indian Orthopedic Society annual conference; Chennai, Indian, December 2012
Nilesh Chaudhari, John Gould; Use of collagen conduits in management of painful neuromas of foot and ankle: A retrospective study of 69 nerves in 50 patients; Southeastern foot club meeting, Destin, FL, May 2012
Nilesh Chaudhari, Angus McBryde; Outcome Analysis of Distal Chevron and Akin Osteotomy for Hallux Valgus Correction; Southeast Foot Club Meeting; Invited speaker; Point Clear, Alabama, 2009

Poster Presentation:

Sameer Naranje, Nilesh Chaudhari, Ashish Shah, John Gould; Role of collagen conduits for foot and ankle surgery; poster presentation; American orthopedic foot and ankle society annual meeting, June, 2012

Video Presentation:

Percutaneous Trigger finger Release in Office; Technique and indications; Nilesh M. Chaudhari, Ross Dunbar; Annual meeting, American Society of Surgery for Hand; Boston, MA; September 11-15

Grant Support:

Biomechanical Comparison of Plantar - to - Dorsal and Dorsal - to - Plantar Screw Fixation Strength for Subtalar Arthrodesis; Industry Grant, from Synthes; American Sports Medicine Institute; Amount: $ 25,000, 2006-2007, Principal Investigator.
Comparison of Volar Fixed-Angle Locking Plates for AO C3 Distal Radius Fractures: Titanium Versus Stainless Steel with Compression; Industry grant, Tornier Inc; Amount: $15,000; 2010-2014, Co-investigator; Grady Maddox (Principal Investigator)
Flexor tendon repair with a knotless, bidirectional barbed suture: an in vivo biomechanical analysis; American Society of Surgery of Hand, Amount: $4,000, 2013-2014, Co-investigator; Grady Maddox (Principal Investigator)
Flexor tendon repair with a knotless, bidirectional barbed suture: an in vivo biomechanical analysis; Division of Orthopedics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Amount: $7,643.50; 2013-2014; Co-investigator.

Volunteerism:

Orthopedic Camp: I organized the Orthopedic Camp at Lions Club Hospital, Bhabhar, Gujarat, India, November 2015
Goal: To serve local under-privileged patients' population and train local Orthopedic Surgeons from the local community to enhance quality of medical care.
Future Projects: Establish team of orthopedic surgeons from United States and other industrialized countries including residents and fellows and organize orthopedic camps in developing countries in collaboration of local organization and involvement of local orthopedic surgeons.