Bonnie Simpson Mason, MD, is the honoree of the 2015 AAOS Diversity Award for her continuing
commitment to diversity in orthopaedics. Dr. Mason’s personal mission is to teach, facilitate, and empower aspiring physicians to reach their maximum potential as physician leaders.

Over the past ten years, Dr. Mason has served as the founder/director of Nth Dimensions Educational Solutions, Inc. (Nth Dimensions), a non-profit organization whose mission is first, to increase gender and racial ethnic diversity representation in orthopaedic surgery and second, to decrease healthcare disparities and improve patient outcomes.

Nth Dimensions, in the last decade, has introduced more than 2,000 pre-medical and medical students to the world of orthopaedics under Dr. Mason’s leadership. Through unique collaborations between orthopaedic mentors, associations, and orthopaedic industry, Nth Dimensions has been awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships to increase the number of women and underrepresented minorities in orthopaedics. Specifically, the AAOS Nth Dimensions Orthopaedic Summer Internship Program is a longitudinal, clinical, and research pipeline initiative, which has produced an impressive match rate for Nth Dimensions Scholars in competitive orthopaedic residency programs. In 2013, 90% of Nth Dimensions Scholars successfully
matched in orthopaedics.

Inspired by her husband, Dr. Thomas Mason, family, and colleagues, Dr. Mason rallied from an early clinical retirement due to rheumatoid arthritis to create an avenue for innovation in orthopaedic surgery. A dedicated mentor and AAOS fellow, Dr. Mason has served as chair of the J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society Mentoring Committee since 2002. She is a current member of
the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society and the AAOS Leadership Development Committee.

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