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Editorial: A Paucity of Women Among Residents, Faculty, and Chairpersons in Orthopaedic Surgery

  • Symposium: Gender-specific Issues in Orthopaedic Surgery
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Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®

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Acknowledgments

We thank Serena S. Hu, MD, Chad Cook, PT, PhD, MBA, and Neil P. Sheth, MD, for sharing their experiences and insights. We are also indebted to Mariana McCready, Marcia Pietrobon, and Julie Simkins for administrative assistance.

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  1. School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Lam Nguyen BS

  2. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Nirav H. Amin MD

  3. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Thomas P. Vail MD

  4. Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, DUMC 3094, Durham, NC, 27710, USA

    Ricardo Pietrobon MD, PhD, MBA & Anand Shah MD, MPH

  5. Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Anand Shah MD, MPH

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Correspondence to Anand Shah MD, MPH.

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One or more of the authors have received funding from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) Grant Number 1 UL1 RR024128-01. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of NCRR or NIH. Information on NCRR is available at http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/. Information on Re-engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise can be obtained from http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/clinicalresearch/overview-translational.asp.

This work was performed at Duke University Medical Center.

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Nguyen, L., Amin, N.H., Vail, T.P. et al. Editorial: A Paucity of Women Among Residents, Faculty, and Chairpersons in Orthopaedic Surgery. Clin Orthop Relat Res 468, 1746–1748 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-009-1125-y

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