AAOS Announces Call for Proposals for Inspiring Diversity Equity and Access Projects Across Orthopaedics

ROSEMONT, Ill., April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) today announced a call for proposals for the AAOS IDEA Grant Program, a multi-year initiative to inspire diversity, equity and access across the field of orthopaedics. Now in its second year, the program will award $300,000 in 2024 to help address decades of inertia surrounding persistent disparities across orthopaedics and, in turn, better serve patients nationwide. “The AAOS launched the IDEA Grant Program in 2022 with the goal of igniting meaningful, lasting and measurable change across orthopaedics,” said AAOS Diversity Advisory Board Chair Anthony E. Johnson,…