About Us  Our Surgeons
Kevin D. Plancher, MD
 Kevin D. Plancher, MD, MS, FACS, FAAOS, is a leading orthopaedic surgeon and sports medicine expert with extensive practice in knee, shoulder, elbow and hand injuries. Dr. Plancher is an Associate Clinical Professor in Orthopaedics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NY. He is on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the American Journal of Medicine and Sports and the American Journal of Orthopedics.
A graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine, Dr. Plancher received an M.S. in Physiology and an M.D. from their school of medicine (cum laude). He did his residency at Harvard's combined Orthopaedic program and a Fellowship at the Steadman-Hawkins clinic in Vail, Colorado where he studied shoulder and knee reconstruction. Dr. Plancher continued his relationship with the Clinic for the next six years as a Consultant. Dr. Plancher has served as team physician for many athletic teams, including high school, college and national championship teams. Dr. Plancher is an attending physician at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City, Stamford Hospital in Stamford, CT and Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, NY and has offices in Manhattan and Greenwich, Connecticut.
Dr. Plancher lectures extensively domestically and internationally on issues related to Orthopaedic procedures and injury management. From 2001 through 2006, Dr. Plancher was named among the Top Doctors in the New York Metro area. He has been appointed the New York State Representative for the Council of Delegates to the American Academy of Orthopaedic surgeons. For the past six years Dr. Plancher has received the Order of Merit (Magnum Cum Laude) for distinguished Philanthropy in the Advancement of Orthopaedic Surgery by the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation. In 2001, he founded "The Orthopaedic Foundation for Active Lifestyles", a non-profit foundation focused on maintaining and enhancing the physical well-being of active individuals through the development and promotion of research and supporting technologies.
Michael A. Schwartz, MD
 Dr. Schwartz is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University, having received his B.A. degree cum laude in Behavioral Biology in 1994. He then earned his M.D. degree at The University of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School in 1998, where he was inducted into the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. His orthopaedic surgery residency training was obtained at The State University of New York at Stony Brook University Hospital. Dr. Schwartz then completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine at The Thomas Jefferson University Hospital / Rothman Institute, in Philadelphia. There he concentrated his orthopaedic work on arthroscopic shoulder, elbow and knee surgery, as well as the overall care of the sports injuries of athletes, ranging from recreational to professional.
Drawing from his comprehensive training, Dr. Schwartz takes care of patients with a wide range of orthopaedic conditions, as well as focuses on the management of sports-related injuries. Licensed in both New York and Connecticut, Dr. Schwartz is an attending physician at The Stamford Hospital in Stamford, CT, the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.
Dr. Schwartz has been a covering team physician for many sports at the high school, college and professional levels, including the Philadelphia Phillies and St. Joseph’s University men’s and women’s basketball teams.
While not on the court, on the field or in the training rooms, Dr. Schwartz has also found time away from the office and operating rooms to perform research and write publications. He has contributed chapters to books on Cartilage Injury in the Athlete, as well as on Medial Epicondylitis (a.k.a. "golfer's elbow"). His research endeavors have included projects on arthroscopic repair for shoulder instability, ligament reconstruction of the elbow (a.k.a. the "Tommy John surgery"), and treatment for adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder (a.k.a. "frozen shoulder"). Dr. Schwartz was honored with the Research Presentation Award for his talk on Enzymatic Capsulotomy for Adhesive Capsulitis of the Shoulder, given at the Annual Orthopaedic Symposium: Concepts in Orthopaedic Therapeutics at the S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook Health Science Center in 2002. Dr. Schwartz's particular clinical interests include shoulder, elbow and knee conditions, ranging from acute injuries to chronic, overuse conditions. He is extensively trained in a wide variety of procedures, including shoulder arthroscopic rotator cuff and labral repair as well as arthroscopic reconstructive knee surgery.
Jaspreet “Jessy” Sekhon, MD
 Dr. Sekhon was raised in South Jersey and was accepted simultaneously into college and medical school at Northwestern University as a member of the Honors Program in Medical Education (a 7 year accelerated honors program). He completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan. His orthopaedic training was in the setting of both a high volume, urban level I trauma center as well as an equally high volume suburban environment for sports, foot/ankle, and hand injuries. During his residency, he also provided orthopaedic care to the Detroit Red Wings, Tigers, and Lions.
Following his residency, he completed a sports medicine fellowship at the UCLA Medical Center. Here, he received advanced surgical training in a variety of cutting edge sports medicine techniques including arthroscopic management of shoulder injury, revision ACL reconstruction, meniscus repair, as well as elbow, ankle and extensive hip arthroscopy. He also performed numerous hip arthroscopies, which has become the latest "hot" technique for treating labral tears and impingement in patients with hip pain. As assistant team physician for the prestigious UCLA athletics department, he provided on field and training room coverage for elite UCLA Division I athletes in football, basketball, soccer, track, gymnastics, volleyball, swimming, golf and baseball.
Dr. Sekhon has lectured extensively during his post-graduate orthopaedic and sports medicine training on topics including shoulder instability, elbow injury, and ACL reconstruction. He treats all types of orthopaedic injuries with a specialty focus in sports medicine and arthroscopic surgeries of the hip, shoulder, knee, elbow, and ankle. He also performs joint replacement surgery for the knee, hip and shoulder, and provides basic trauma care as well.
Dr. Sekhon’s goals are to restore quality of life to all his patients, optimizing non-surgical, rehabilitative treatment for a wide variety of orthopaedic conditions, resorting to surgery as a last resort or sooner if indicated. Patient office visits focus not only on diagnosis and treatment, but patient education and involvement in decision-making, which are equally (if not more) important. Although he has extensive experience with elite athletes, his focus is returning all athletes to competition, be it high-level athletes or the weekend warriors of all ages. He also provides hands-on athletic care to community high schools, colleges, and recreational teams.
Maryann Gardner, MD - Associate
Dr. Gardner is a 1985 graduate of Brown University. She attended medical school at UCLA, obtaining her MD in 1989. Following a residency in Orthopedic Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, OH she performed a fellowship in orthopedic sports medicine at Vanderbilt University, and then stayed on as an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery from 1995 to 1997. During that time she functioned as the head team physician for the baseball, tennis, track, and cross country teams. She chose to use and further her sports medicine skills through obtaining a commission in the US Navy then spent seven years providing orthopedic care to the sailors and US Marines stationed at two large USMC bases in southern California. She subsequently joined an orthopedic practice in northern NH for several years prior to deciding to join the team at Plancher Orthopedics & Sports Medicine.
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