AO Access webinars

The AO recognizes that mentoring is a life-long process with unique age dependent requirements which may vary between members of a diverse and inclusive community of surgeons, operating room personnel, health care professionals, and researchers.

A text version of the question-and-answer session from the webinar is available for you to read: The right mentoring connection - AO Access webinar QA summary

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Recorded webinar here

Host:

Robert McGuire

AO Foundation Board representative

MD, AO Foundation Past-President

Moderator:

Marinis Pirpiris

Associate Professor, MBBS, BMedSci, GradDipEpidBiostat, MEpi, PhD, FRACS, FAOrthA

Panelist:

W. Brad Johnson, PhD

Professor of psychology in the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law

United States Naval Academy Faculty associate in the Graduate School of Education at Johns Hopkins University

Panelist:

Annette Holian

MBBS FRACS FAOrthA MSurgEd Monash Children's hospital

Division of Surgery-Orthopaedic Surgery

Group Captain, RAAF Reserves Australia

Panelist:

Samantha Leigh Morello

Faculty and leader development task force lead

DVM, DACVS

Associate professor of large animal surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The second webinar demonstrated the importance of workplace and organizational diversity, which are vital for the AO's growth, sustainability, and innovation, featuring academic diversity and inclusion leader David J Brown, MD, and AO CMF surgeon Lamont R Jones.

A text version of the question-and-answer session from the webinar is available for you to read:

Diversity to enhance the AO’s cultural journey: QA summary (coming soon)

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Recorded webinar here

Lamont R Jones, MD, MBA, FACS

Vice-Chair, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

Director of Cleft and Craniofacial Clinic

Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Otolaryngology service chief

Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital (West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, United States)

David J Brown, MD

Associate professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Associate vice president and associate dean for health equity and inclusion

University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor Michigan, United States)

The first webinar of a series of webinar that the Opportunity, Diversity and Inclusion Initiative (ODII) working group, now called AO Access has recently produced, featured two experts speakers (from both academia and industry), Molly Carnes and Gabriela Rojas and demonstrated how diversity initiatives lead to benefits in an organization including outcomes such as improved productivity, enhanced communication and better organizational performance.

A text version of the question-and-answer session from the webinar is available for you to read:

Diversity and inclusion webinar: QA summary

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Recorded webinar here

Molly Carnes

Virginia Valian Professor, Departments of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Industrial & Systems Engineering

Director, Center for Women’s Health Research

Codirector, Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI), University of Wisconsin-Madison

Gabriela Rojas

Vice president, Global Strategic Capabilities, DePuy Synthes, Johnson and Johnson

Women’s Leadership and Inclusion Global Steering Committee, Johnson & Johnson Enterprise

Global Office of Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board, Johnson & Johnson Enterprise