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Buffalo Spree Top Doctors – Dr. Kevin Lanighan Hand & Upper Extremity Surgeon
Join Northtowns Orthopedics, P.C. as we congratulate our very own Dr. Kevin Lanighan for being named as one of Buffalo Spree Magazine’s 2013 Top Docs.
Check out your local newsstands to purchase the January 2013 Buffalo Spree Magazine and turn to page 77 to read Donna Hoke’s article “The long way home: Dr. Kevin Lanighan”.
Read on for more information about
Northtowns Orthopedics, P.C.’s own
Dr. Kevin Lanighan
The Buffalo Boomerang: Buffalo Brings this Johns Hopkins Graduate Home
Kevin Lanighan, M.D. is a Lockport native whom discovered his love for helping others while obtaining his Eagle Scout. His passion for athletics, earned him a Cross-Country and Track Scholarship to Niagara University. Dr. Lanighan then went on to pursue medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School, where he would later complete his residency after a surgical internship at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, time spent as a ship physician for a US Navy Helicopter Carrier, and staff orthopedic surgeon at Charleston Naval Hospital. Kevin Lanighan M.D. then completed his Fellowship at Curtis National Hand Center in Baltimore.
In 1996, Dr. Lanighan returned to the greater Western New York area with his wife and three children and practices at Northtowns Orthopedics, P.C. located in East Amherst. Dr. Lanighan works closely with his two highly skilled Physicians Assistant’s Beth Gillezeau, PA-C, and Lori Gmerek, PA-C in caring for conditions of the hand and arm. While he enjoys caring for all conditions of the hand and upper extremity, Dr. Lanighan cites his most gratifying surgeries to perform are carpal tunnel releases, wrist fractures, and surgery for thumb arthritis.
Dr. Lanighan is a hand and upper extremity surgeon whom works out of Northtowns Orthopedics, P.C.’s Transit Road location 8750 Transit Road, Suite 105, in East Amherst, NY 14051. Call 716-636-1470 to make an appointment.
