Dr. Nishant Suneja

Dr Nishant Suneja is a fellowship trained Orthopaedic trauma and reconstructive surgeon. He is currently the Director of Complex Orthopaedic Trauma and Deformity Correction at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr Suneja specializes in treating traumatically-injured patients with major fractures, dislocations and soft tissue injuries. He treats all fractures including pelvic & acetabular fractures, periarticular and periprosthetic fractures.  His clinical interests include limb length and deformity correction, treating nonunions, total hip arthroplasty, shoulder replacement, and treating trauma related infections. His goal is to provide excellent, compassionate, and evidence-based patient care.Dr Suneja completed his trauma fellowship at the Harvard Orthopaedic Trauma institute at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Prior to this, he completed his undergraduate and medical education at the University at Buffalo in New York where he graduated with academic and research honors. He was the recipient of the prestigious Gold humanism award. He completed his orthopaedic residency training in New York at the Maimonides Medical center where he was selected as the administrative chief resident and received the best resident award. Upon completion of his fellowship, Dr Suneja returned to New York where he was the Chief of Orthopaedic Trauma at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. He covered multiple busy trauma centers treating polytraumatic patients with complex fractures. He has a keen interest in the education of residents, fellows and medical students, which is a large part of his practice.  Dr Suneja is actively engaged in multiple research projects and is part of numerous regional and national academic organizations. His research interests include improving patient outcomes from trauma related injuries and treatment of bone infections. Dr Suneja see’s patients in the Hale building at the Brigham and operates at the Brigham hospital main campus and at the Massachusetts General hospital.

Dr. Suneja is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Hip Replacement. His top areas of expertise are Compartment Syndrome, Infectious Arthritis, Ear Barotrauma, Hip Replacement, and Fasciotomy.

His clinical research consists of co-authoring 45 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 3 articles in the study of Hip Replacement.