2025 – Erica Taylor, MD, MBA

• Member of JRGOS Board of Directors, Past JRGOS Treasurer, Past JRGOS Mentoring Committee Chair, Vice President of Health Equity for Duke Health,

  Founder and CEO of Orthopaedic Diversity Leadership Consortium

2024 – Ishaq Ibrahim, MD

• Member of JRGOS Board of Directors, Assistant Professor Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

2023 – Randall Morgan, MD

• President and CEO of Montague Cobb/NMA Health Institute, 95th President of the NMA, Associate Professor at Florida State School of Medicine

2022 – Letitia Bradford, MD

• Executive Director of Nth Dimensions, Private Practitioner at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Center

2020 – Augustus White, III, MD, PhD

• JRGOS Founding member & Past President, First Black Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Memorial Hospital, Emeritus Professor Harvard University

2019 – Valerae O. Lewis, MD

• Professor and Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Chair of AAOS Membership Council

2018 – Eric W. Carson, MD

• Past President of JRGOS, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at HSS, Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harlem Hospital Center

2017 – Bonnie Simpson-Mason, MD

• Founder of Nth Dimensions, American College of Surgeons Medical Director of DEI, Former ACGME Vice President of DEI, Co-Founder/CEO of Beyond the Exam Room

2016 – Robert H. Wilson, MD

• Program Director at Howard University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

2015 – Raymond O. Pierce, Jr., MD

• Founding Member of JRGOS, Member of Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control of the Centers for Disease Control

2014 – Toni McLaurin, MD

• Professor of Orthopaedics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Chief of Orthopaedics Bellevue Hospital, Vice Chair of DEI at NYU Langone Orthopedics

2013 – Clarence L. Shields, Jr., MD

• Former President of AOSSM, Recipient of AOSSM Robert E. Leach, MD Sports Medicine Leadership Award (2006), Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at UCLA, Kerlan Jobe Institute

2012 – Cato T. Laurencin, MD, PhD

• Recipient of NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, Founder of the Regenerative Engineering Society, Recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Math, and Engineering Mentoring, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery University of Connecticut, JRGOS Founders Award Inaugural Recipient 2024

2011 – Anthony T. Fenison, MD

• Private Practitioner in Moreno Valley, California, Past President of California Society of Industrial Medicine

2010 – George V. Russel, Jr., MD

• Professor and Chief of Orthopaedic Trauma at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, JRGOS Vice President 2024-2026, Former Chairman of Orthopaedics University of Mississippi

2009 – Richard E. Grant, MD

• First Black President of the ABOS, Former Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at Howard University

2008 – Eleby R. Washington, MD

• Past President of JRGOS, Professor and Chairperson of Department of Surgery at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science

2007 – Felasfa M. Wodajo, MD

• Orthopaedic Oncologist at Virginia Cancer Specialist, Assistant Professor at Georgetown University

2006 – William T. Long, MD

• Founder Computer Surgery Institute, Performed first Robotic Assisted Knee Arthroplasty in Los Angeles, Board of Directors for Operation Walk

2005 – Charles H. Epps, MD

• Dean of Howard University, 2000 AAOS Humanitarian Award Recipient, Retired from practice in 2011

2004 – Claudia L. Thomas, MD

• First ABOS Certified Female Black Orthopaedic Surgeon, JRGOS President, 2008 AAOS Diversity Award Recipient

2001 – Larry T. Johnson, MD and Charles D. Mitchell, MD

• Larry T. Johnson, MD – Retired Private Practitioner in Dallas, Texas

• Charles D. Mitchell, MD – Retired Private Practitioner in Dallas, Texas