21st Annual Augustus White Symposium

Date and Time

October 15, 2025
09:00AM - 11:30AM EDT

Location

Room 11001B, Klarman Building, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – West Campus

In honor of Augustus A. White, III, MD, PhD

Theme: Fractured Systems, Forgotten Patients: Equity in Global Orthopaedic Trauma

Keynote Speaker:

Samuel Hailu, MD
Joint Replacement and Trauma Surgeon, Associate Prof. of Orthopaedics, BIDMC
CEO, Addis Ortho, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
“Neglected Trauma in Ethiopia”
 

Featured Presentations:

Pierre Marie Woolley, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon, Associate Prof. or Orthopaedics, University of Notre Dame School of Medicine (UNDH), Haiti
“Orthopaedic Challenges, Opportunities and Sustainable Volunteerism in Developing Countries: Past, Present and Future”
 

Ishaq Ibrahim, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon, BIDMC
“A Tale of Two Cities: Reflection on Orthopaedic Access and Equity in
America’s Largest City”

Sponsored by: The Carl J. Shapiro Department of Orthopaedics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)