JRGOS
J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society Awards Dr. Cato T. Laurencin Augustus A. White III Founders Award
The award recognizes the recipient’s exceptional contributions to advancing culturally sensitive musculoskeletal care while promoting diversity within Orthopaedics and exemplifying an unswerving commitment to excellence in the field.
J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society (JRGOS) has selected Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., to be the first recipient of the Augustus A. White III Founders Award. The award ceremony will be held during the 2024 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons meeting in San Francisco, CA. The JRGOS Augustus White Founders Award “recognizes the recipient’s exceptional contributions to advancing culturally sensitive musculoskeletal care while promoting diversity within Orthopaedics and exemplifying an unswerving commitment to excellence in the field.”
Dr. Augustus White III, MD, PhD, FAAOS, whom the award was named after, is the founder of the J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society, whose mission is to increase diversity within the orthopaedic surgery profession and promote the highest quality musculoskeletal care for all people. He served as the first President of the Society. White was the first African American medical student at Stanford, surgical resident at Yale University, professor of medicine at Yale, and department head at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard-affiliated hospital. White served as chief of the orthopedic surgery department for thirteen years.
On the award going to Laurencin, White warmly said, “I am humbled and profoundly honored by the selection of Dr. Cato Laurencin to receive the [Augustus A White, J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society] award in my name. My tremendous congratulations.”
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OREF is working with Dr. Larencin and the University of Connecticut (UConn) Foundation to support The Cato T. Laurencin Institute for Regenerative Engineering at UConn.
Funds raised through this partnership will support the core programs of The Cato T. Laurencin Institute and OREF's research mission. Ninety-five percent of each gift will be directed by OREF to the UConn Foundation, Inc to support The Cato T. Laurencin Institute programs and five percent will support OREF's research programs. Additional information about the UConn Foundation is available here. All donations will be recognized by OREF and the UConn Foundation.
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