In July and part of August, 15 girls from area high schools participated in the Perry Outreach Program, a month-long pilot project named after Jacqueline Perry, MD, who was the first female orthopedic surgeon to graduate from UCSF, in 1955.
In the program, UCSF Orthopedic Surgeon Lisa Lattanza, MD, and other experts teach students how to build a finger using an erector set, create and repair a fracture using synthetic bone and repair a tendon using pig tissue and then test its strength.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons reports that women account for just 3 percent of board-certified orthopedic surgeons and less than 10 percent of all orthopedic residents nationwide.
Read the San Francisco Examiner’s report on the Perry Outreach Program.
