AO Access webinars
The Right Mentoring Connection May Change Your Life
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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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
Contributors:
Amy Kapatkin, Matthew Allen, Tatjana Topalovic
Growth, Sustainability, and Innovation Through Enhancing Workplace and Organizational Diversity
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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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)
Diversity Initiatives in the Workplace Evidence-based Approaches and Outcomes
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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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