Harvard Global Orthopaedics Collaborative
Our Work
The Harvard Global Orthopaedics Collaborative (HGOC) is a group of Harvard-affiliated orthopaedic surgery faculty and trainees who share a passion for improving access to musculoskeletal health care globally.
We engage in clinical research, surgical education, care delivery, and health systems development with our global partners in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Haiti, India, Kenya, and Malawi. We collaborate with the Harvard Program for Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC), Harvard Medical School Orthopaedic Trauma Initiative (HMS OTI), and the Musculoskeletal Translational Innovation and Initiative (MTII) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Forging long-term, bidirectional partnerships, we help create interventions to improve musculoskeletal trauma care delivery based on the needs identified by partners in the communities they serve. To scale these interventions, HGOC partners closely with our sister non-profit organization SONA Global (Surgical and Orthopaedic Innovations for All patients Globally), which works to increase access to high-quality education and designs innovative and affordable medical devices to improve trauma and orthopaedic care.
Our approach to developing MSK Health Equity, built on a foundation of our bilateral partnerships around the globe.
Our Team
Founder and Director: Kiran J. Agarwal-Harding, MD MPH
Board of Faculty Advisors
Paul Appleton, MD - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
George S.M. Dyer, MD - Brigham and Women’s Hospital
John Y. Kwon, MD - Massachusetts General Hospital
Collin May, MD MPH - Boston Children’s Hospital
Chaitanya S. Mudgal, MD - Massachusetts General Hospital
Edward K. Rodriguez, MD PhD - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
John J. Wixted, MD - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Affiliated Faculty & Staff
Dheera Ananthakrishnan, MD, MBA - Emory University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Link
Soheil Ashkani-Esfahani, MD - Foot & Ankle Research and Innovation Laboratory, MGH
Amanda McCoy, MD, MPH - UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Michael McTague, MPH - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Ara Nazarian, PhD - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Rameez A. Qudsi, MD, MPH - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Hao-Hua Wu, MD - University of California, Irvine
Resident Leaders
Elyse Berlinberg, MD - Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program
Kelsey Brown, MD - Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program
Fernando Carrillo-Villasenor, MD - HGR2 El Marqués, IMSS, Querétaro, México
Myles Dworkin, MD - Brown University Orthopaedic Residency Program
Nelson Merchan, MD - Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program
Abdoulie Njai, MD, MPH - University of Missouri Orthopaedic Residency Program
