Support Staff

“Professional Care for the Amateur Athlete”

At Professional Orthopaedic Associates our patients’ needs and their treatment come first. Our certified practice manager, physician assistants and x-ray technicians are an integral part of our practice.

Our board certified PA’s assist our fellowship trained surgeons in each office as well as in the operating room. In addition, they assist the surgeon with pre-operative and post-operative evaluation and hospital care.

Practice Manager
Tona Manning, CAPPM
(Certified Administrator in Physician Practice Management)

Physician Assistants
Kevin S. Brown, PA-C
Kevin S. Brown is a licensed physician assistant who graduated from Kings College in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania in 2001. He has had extensive clinical experience in orthopaedics as well as internal medicine, pediatrics and psychiatry.

Kevin P. Ruscio, PA-C
Kevin P. Ruscio is a licensed physician assistant who graduated from North Eastern University in Boston, Massachusetts in 1978. Kevin began his care as a PA at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Since moving to New Jersey in 1991, he has worked at Bayshore Hospital, Riverview Medical Center and Monmouth Medical Center. He has extensive experience not only in orthopaedics, but cardiology, nephrology and pediatrics.

X-ray Technicians
Colleen Simone, Gail Bayly, Susan Ledford, Susan Brown, Andrea Shannon, Anthony Coppola, Patricia Orlando
All of our X-ray technicians are licensed in diagnostic radiology by the state of New Jersey. They are members of the American Society of Radiologic Technology and the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists.

Medical Technicians
Verna Clayton, John Kimler, John Vanaman