Championing Diversity and Empowering Voices: Monica M. Payares-Lizano, MD, MPH, on Her Journey and Vision for Orthopaedics

Selina Poon, MD, MPH, FAAOS

Selina Poon, MD, MPH, FAAOS, member of the AAOS Now Editorial Board, got a chance to sit down with Monica M. Payares-Lizano, MD, FAAOS, a newly appointed member-at-large of the AAOS Board of Directors and a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, Fla.

Study Explores the Dynamics of Surgeons Leaving Academic Orthopaedics

Cailin Conner

A study presented by Alice Chu, MD, FAAOS, associate professor and chief of the Division of Pediatric Orthopaedics at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, sought to better understand recent trends in academic orthopaedics by examining the retention of academic orthopaedic surgeons from 2016 to 2022.