Frances Weidermann, MD
Co-Founder and President of Swiss Female Orthopaedics
Speech: Women in Orthopedics in Switzerland “Swiss female Orthopedics”
Language: English
The Swiss Female Orthopaedics Association (SFO) is a non-profit association founded in 2021 with the mission to inspire, encourage and enable women in orthopaedics in order to realize their professional and personal goals by giving them support at various stages in their orthopaedic career. Female orthopaedics surgeons are still a minority having to deal with a variety of challenging situations in comparison to the male colleagues. The SFO mission is to seek inclusion and equity in orthopaedic surgery. For this purpose the SFO works with seven committees on different topics such as mentoring, fellowships, female challenges, workshops, etc. in order to help overcoming the existing barriers in this still male dominated profession.
