New Physician Assistant Joins SVMC Orthopedics Practice

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BENNINGTON, Vt. — John O’Shea has joined Southwestern Vermont Medical Center Orthopedics and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Physicians.

O'Shea holds a bachelor's in kinesiology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He earned a master's in physician assistant studies from MCPHS University in Massachusetts.

Since 2018, O'Shea worked as a physician assistant at Orthopedics Northeast in Andover, Mass. He also worked as a patient care technician at Lowell General Hospital in Massachusetts. He is certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.

O'Shea has served as a medical volunteer in rural Nepal as a part of the Nepali Reliance Organization and as a medical race volunteer for the Boston Marathon and fundraising walks. He was a Division I track-and-field athlete. 

SVMC Orthopedics offers preventive and non-surgical treatments, minimally invasive surgery, and surgery for sports injuries, painful joints, and complicated fractures. They execute complete joint replacements, rotator cuff repair, and surgeries on hands, knees, wrists, feet, elbows and ankles.  The office is located at 332 Dewey St. in Bennington. For more information and to schedule an appointment, call 802-442-6314 or visit the website.


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