Thomas Sculco, M.D. Receives AAOS Diversity Award

Thomas P. Sculco, M.D., surgeon-in-chief emeritus of Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) and professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, was recently presented with the 2025 Diversity Award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) in recognition of his outstanding commitment to promoting diversity at the local, institutional, and national levels.  

According to orthopaedic spine surgeon and President of the J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society Susan E. Stephens, M.D., “Dr. Sculco has embodied and lived diversity in orthopaedics. He has trained under his leadership more Black and Women orthopaedic surgeons than any other majority training program in the world.”