Editorial by Bryan Ashman

Dear Reader

With only a little over a month to go until the AO Davos Courses, it is my pleasure to reach out to you through our newsletter.

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It’s time to shine a light

With female surgeons making up as little as 5 percent of our membership, the gender gap is a real and pressing issue. AO Spine shined a light on gender diversity at the Global Spine Congress 2019. Here, AO Spine continues that conversation by asking three leading female surgeons to share their experiences.

Unconscious bias—how to recognize that blind spot in our brains and overcome it

As it turns out, what we want to believe about ourselves and our behavior towards others and is often quite different from how we actually behave. Often, unless it's pointed out to us, we don't realize our internalized biases.

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Editor-in-chief
Norman Chutkan
AO Spine International
Community Development Commission Chairperson

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