Urbana-based Carle Illinois College of Medicine students are partnering with the Perry Initiative, a national group focused on inspiring women to join orthopedic surgery.  Students are also teaming ...09 August 2023

Laura Anderson, MD, the first female neurosurgeon in Sacramento, Calif. is retiring after more than 30 years in the field. She has been one of about 400 female surgeons in the U.S. and 49,940 globally, ...31 July 2023

As the FIFA Women's World Cup soccer tournament kicks off in Australia and New Zealand, several star players from across the globe have been sidelined by ACL injuries, according to a July 12 report from ...24 July 2023

... the action program, which specifically targets female high school students.  The hands-on pilot program works with female students at two area high schools to encourage an interest in orthopedic surgery. ...28 June 2023

...  AV: If you look at the orthopedic community, only about 7 percent of established orthopedic surgeons identify as female. There are gender disparities in academic centers and healthcare leadership, as ...27 June 2023

Spine and orthopedic surgeons are seeing positive changes in the industry this year, but some challenges still remain. Here are three pieces of good news and two pieces of bad news: The good news ...23 May 2023

Women only make up about 18 percent of the orthopedic surgeon workforce, one of the largest gender disparities across healthcare specialties.  Additionally, female orthopedic surgeons earn 20 percent ...22 May 2023

... lack of women in the operating rooms. Orthopedics has the least amount of female physicians when compared to other specialties, with just 10 percent of women making up the orthopedic workforce, according ...19 May 2023

...  5.9 percent: The percentage of the orthopedic workforce that is female. Orthopedics has the least female representation of all specialties. 83.6 percent: The percentage of orthopedic specialists who ...19 May 2023

... The mean age of the patients in these claims was 55.7.  3. More than half of the patients (51.5 percent) were female.  4. Orthopedics experienced the highest number of wrong-site claims, at 35.3 percent ...08 May 2023

... medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.  Dr. Humbyrd received the career development award, which is given to female orthopedic early- and mid-career foot and ankle orthopedic ...28 April 2023

... with 68 percent of physicians in the specialty saying they felt fairly paid. 5. Orthopedics had the lowest female representation. Only 10 percent of orthopedic physicians are female. Ob/Gyn had the highest ...14 April 2023

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University has welcomed its first Black female neurosurgery resident, according to an April 10 report from Fox affiliate KTBC. Tamia Potter, 26, will begin her residency ...10 April 2023

... more workforce statistics to know: 1. Men make up 2,848 (92.9 percent) of the workforce, while there are 217 (7.1 percent) female orthopedic sports medicine surgeons.  2.  There are 106,548 people ...07 April 2023

The orthopedic workforce has the smallest percentage of female surgeons compared to any other physician specialty, according to 2022 data from the Association of American Medical Colleges, with women making ...06 April 2023

... female president of the Louisiana Orthopaedic Association. 3. G. Dean Harter, MD, was named medical director for orthopedic surgery at Gifford, Fla.-based Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital. 4. ...04 April 2023

Female physicians are increasingly pursuing careers in neurosurgery, a historically male-dominated field. Many female patients are eager to receive care from women neurosurgeons and report feeling more ...29 March 2023

Leslie Sisco-Wise, MD, became the first female president of the Louisiana Orthopaedic Association.  Dr. Sisco-Wise is also section head of hand surgery for New Orleans-based Ochsner Health and director ...27 March 2023

Lattisha Bilbrew, MD, the first Black female orthopedic surgeon partner at Atlanta-based Resurgens Orthopaedics wrote a memoir about her experience in the profession. Yes, I Am the Surgeon: Lessons ...15 March 2023

... emerita at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic, and founded Vori Health. She was the first female member of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society, the International Society of Limb Salvage and the American ...10 March 2023