AOFAS Uses Its Annual Meeting to Promote Gender Diversity

A. Holly Johnson, MD; Alexandra Page, MD, FAAOS

The lack of gender diversity in orthopaedics may be old news, but an article published in 2018 in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery offered a view by specialty society. The data may be sobering to subspecialties, but initiatives undertaken by the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (AOFAS) offer a model that other societies and organizations may emulate to engage women and support them in leadership roles.

AAOS Aims to Increase Diversity—Strategically

Terry Stanton

As the Academy begins its second year of implementing the 2019–2023 Strategic Plan, its efforts and initiatives to deliver on its goal to promote diversity are coming into focus and entering into action.