Best Docs Awards

GIKK Ortho Specialists is pleased to recognize our physicians who have recieved awards and recognition from our peers and patients for the work we have done.

Below is a list of our physicians that have received Best Doctors in America^® recognition and the years of recognition:

• Dr. R. Michel Gross -- 2003 through 2012
• Dr. Timothy Fitzgibbons -- 1996 through 2012
• Dr. Jack McCarthy - 2011 through 2012
• Dr. T. Kevin O'Malley -- 2011 through 2012
• Dr. Jeffrey Tiedeman -- 2011 through 2012
• Dr. Scott McMullen -- 2005 through 2012
• Dr. Erik Otterberg -- 2011 through 2012
• Dr. David Inda -- 2011 through 2012

Compiled by Boston-based Best Doctors, Inc., the Best Doctors in America^® database is the result of an exhaustive survey of more than 45,000 physicians in the United States. Only those doctors recognized to be in the top 3-5% of their specialty earn the honor of being named one of the Best Doctors in America^®.

Over the last 15 years, Best Doctors has earned worldwide acclaim for its remarkable database of physicians. The Best Doctors database is the world's premier effort to create a validated, peer-reviewed database of excellence in medicine. The Best Doctors methodology is rigorously impartial and strictly independent. Doctors cannot pay to be included in the database and are not paid to complete the survey. The only way to be recognized as one of the Best Doctors in America^® is for a doctor to earn high marks for clinical ability from his or her peers.  To learn more, please visit www.bestdoctors.com/us .

Patients' Choice Award

The Patients’ Choice Award originates on the website www.vitals.com. Consumers and patients are welcome to rate their doctors profile based on their opinion and experience with that doctor.

By receiving a Patients’ Choice Award, that means a doctor is currently in the top percentile of physicians that have been rated by consumers on Vitals.com for the year. This award is based solely on independent patient/consumer ratings, with a minimum requirement of 2 ratings totaling an average of 3.8 out of 4 stars.

GIKK Ortho Specialists' physicians that have received the Patient's Choice Award include:

• Dr. Erik Ottberg (2010 Award)
• Dr. Timothy Fitzgibbons (2008 and 2009 Awards)