The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons honored three orthopedic surgeons for their work in the field.
Colleen Sabatini, MD, earned the AAOS Humanitarian Award, according to a March 12 news release. She’s a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. Dr. Sabatini has also done pediatric orthopedic work abroad, with a focus on serving children in Uganda since 2013.
Thomas Sculco, MD, earned the AAOS Diversity Award. He is surgeon-in-chief emeritus at New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery. In this decades-long career he developed and established multiple infrastructures to enhance diversity within orthopedic, address healthcare disparities and bolster patient care.
Steven Gitelis, MD, earned the William W. Tipton, Jr., MD, Leadership Award. He is a professor and director of the Rush Musculoskeletal Oncology Program in Chicago. He’s also chief medical officer of Onkos, a company focused on cancer care. Under his leadership at Rush, he created and grew one of the region’s largest sarcoma programs and formed the Rush Multispecialty Musculoskeletal tumor board.