The AAOS Women’s Health Issues Advisory Board (WHIAB) strives to improve orthopaedic care of gender-related musculoskeletal disorders. Since women suffer from disease in different ways than men, this work is critical to optimizing patient care.

The WHIAB reports to the AAOS Board of Directors to disseminate and coordinate gender-specific research information, medical knowledge, and communications to a variety of audiences - the Academy, our policymakers in Washington, D.C., and the greater public. The AAOS WHIAB has partnered with numerous groups to promote women’s musculoskeletal health issues by providing sex- and gender-related information. The WHIAB promotes gender-specific research, most visibly through its quarterly column in AAOS Now: “Putting Sex in Your Orthopaedic Practice.”