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William Sheppard

William Sheppard, Jr MD
Home town: Los Angeles, CA
Interests/Hobbies: Sports (Basketball, Football, Boxing, Jiu Jitsu), Old-School Barber Shops, Weight Training, Cooking/Grilling

EDUCATION
Undergraduate: University of California, Davis
Masters: Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA
Medical School: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Internship: General Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Residency: Orthopedic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

RESEARCH INTEREST
Orthopaedic Implant Infection Prevention
Novel Antimicrobial Agents
Propionibacterium Acnes Gene Manipulation
Mouse Models of Implant Infection
Clinical Research and Epidemiology
Biostatistical Analysis

AWARDS/ GRANTS
UC Davis Molecular and Cellular Biology Departmental Citation for 2013
David Geffen Medical Scholarship Recipient (2013-2018)
Clinical and Translational Science Institute 2014 TL1 Summer Fellowship
Dean's Leadership in Health and Science Scholarship Recipient 2016
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Health Policy & Management Opportunity Award 2016

PUBLICATIONS
Gorkem Gunbas, Nema Hafezi, William L. Sheppard, Marilyn M. Olmstead, Irini V. Stoyanova, Fook S. Tham, Matthew P. Meyer, and Mark Mascal. Extreme oxatriquinanes and a record C–O bond length. Nature Chemistry: Publication (Web-Nov 2012, Print-Dec 2012)

Gorkem Gunbas, William L. Sheppard, James C. Fettinger, Marilyn M. Olmstead, and Mark Mascal. Extreme Oxatriquinanes: Structural Characterization of α-Oxyoxonium Species with Extraordinarily Long Carbon−Oxygen Bonds. Journal of the American Chemical Society: Publication (May 2013)

Brian W. MacLaughlin, M.D., David S. Plurad, M.D., William Sheppard, B.S., Scott Bricker, M.D., Fred Bongard, M.D., Angela Neville, M.D., Jennifer A. Smith, M.D., Brant Putnam, M.D., Dennis Y. Kim, M.D. The Impact of Intracranial Pressure Monitoring On Mortality Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. The American Journal of Surgery: Publication (Web- September 2015)

Stark, Alexander P.; Maciel, Robert C.; Sheppard, William; Sacks, Greg; Hines, O. Joe. An Early Warning Score Predicts Risk of Death after In-hospital Cardiopulmonary Arrest in Surgical Patients. The American Surgeon, Volume 81, Number 10, October 2015, pp. 916-921(6)

Park HY, Yang SK, Sheppard WL, Hegde V, Zoller SD, Nelson SD, Federman N, Bernthal NM. Current management of aneurysmal bone cysts. Curr Rev Musculoskelet  Med. 2016 Oct 24. Review. PubMed PMID: 27778155.

Ajiboye RM, Zoller SD, D'Oro A, Burke ZD, Sheppard W, Wang C, Buser Z, Wang JC, Pourtaheri S.  The Utility of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring for Lumbar Pedicle Screw Placement is Questionable: A Review of 9957 Cases. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2016 Nov 15. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27851660.

Ajiboye RM, Zoller SD, Sharma A, Ashana AA, Sheppard W, Holl LT. Regression of Disc-Osteophyte Complexes Following Laminoplasty Versus Laminectomy with Fusion for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy. International Journal of Spine Surgery. 2017. Volume 11 Proof 37. doi: 10.14444/proof37. PubMed PMID: 28765801; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5537950.

Zoller SD, Cao LA, Smith RA, Sheppard W, Lord EL, Hamad CD, Ghodasra JH, Lee C, Jeffcoat D. Staged Reconstruction of Diaphyseal Fractures with Segmental Defects: Surgical and Patient-Reported Outcomes. Injury. pii: S0020-1383(17)30411-4. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2017.06.018. PubMed PMID: 28712488.

Adedayo O. Ashana MD, Remi M. Ajiboye MD, William L Sheppard BS, Langston T. Holly MD. Cervical Paraspinal Muscle Atrophy Rates Following Laminoplasty And Laminectomy With Fusion for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy. Accepted to World Neurosurgery. 2017 Nov;107:445-450. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2017.07.173. PubMed PMID: 28790004.

Buerba RA, Sheppard WL, Herndon KE, Gajewski N, Patel AD, Leong N, Bernthal NM, SooHoo NF. Academic Influence and Its Relationship to Industry Payments in Orthopaedic Surgery. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2018 May 2;100(9):e59. doi:10.2106/JBJS.17.00838. PubMed PMID: 29715232.

Jones KJ, Sheppard WL, Arshi A, Hinckel B, Sherman SL. Articular Cartilage Lesion Characteristic Reporting is Highly Variable in Clinical Outcomes Studies of the Knee. Cartilage. 2018 Feb 1:1947603518756464. doi: 10.1177/1947603518756464. PubMed PMID: 29405742.

Park HY, Zoller SD, Sheppard WL, Hegde V, Smith RA, Borthwell RM, Clarkson SJ, Hamad CD, Proal JD, Bernthal NM. A Comparison of Defense and Plaintiff Expert Witnesses in Orthopaedic Surgery Malpractice Litigation. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2018 Jun 6;100(11):e78. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.17.01146. PubMed PMID: 29870452.

Shaw K, Chen J, Sheppard W, Alazzeh M, Park H, Park D, Shamie AN. Use of the subcutaneous lumbar spine (SLS) index as a predictor for surgical complications in lumbar spine surgery. Spine J. 2018 Apr 27. pii: S1529-9430(18)30191-8. doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2018.04.018. PubMed PMID: 29709549.

Park HY, Sheppard W, Smith R, Xiao J, Gatto J, Bowen R, Scaduto A, Holly L, Lu D, McBride D, Shamie AN, Park DY. The combined administration of Vancomycin IV, standard prophylactic antibiotics, and vancomycin powder in spinal instrumentation surgery: does the routine use affect infection rates and bacterial resistance. J Spine Surg 2018. doi: 10.21037/jss.2018.05.04

Hwang R, Park HY, Sheppard W, Bernthal NM. Delayed Diagnosis Is the Primary Cause of Sarcoma Litigation: Analysis of Malpractice Claims in the United States [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jun 2]. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2020;10.1097/CORR.0000000000001340. doi:10.1097/CORR.0000000000001340

Sheppard WL, Hinckel BB, Arshi A, Sherman SL, Jones KJ. Accurate Reporting of Concomitant Procedures Is Highly Variable in Studies Investigating Knee Cartilage Restoration [published online ahead of print, 2019 Apr 11]. Cartilage. 2019;1947603519841673. doi:10.1177/1947603519841673

Sheppard WL, Mosich GM, Smith RA, et al. Novel in vivo mouse model of shoulder implant infection. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2020;29(7):1412-1424. doi:10.1016/j.jse.2019.10.032)

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