ORS Open Door 2025

Friday, February 7, 2025  |  9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Venue: The University of Arizona
Building 2 / Virginia G. Piper Auditorium
Building 1 / Health Science Education Building (HSEB)

Partner & Audience: Arizona Association for Middle Level Education (AzAMLE) and Rogers Ranch STEM Academy

2025 Program

Open Door engages students and teachers in short career talks from different disciplines (e.g., engineers, biologists, and physicians), a discussion panel featuring ORS members from historically underserved backgrounds in STEM, and a series of hands-on workshops and demonstrations.

Tissue Regeneration & Bioengineering

Nature-Inspired Engineering For The Human Body: Musculoskeletal Regenerative Medicine with Jason Marvin, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Orthopaedic Biomechanics & Biomaterials

Translational Orthopaedic Research: From the Engineering Labs to the Operating Room with Christina Salas, PhD, Associate Professor, University of New Mexico

Developmental Biology & Immunology

Support and Defense: The Role of the Immune System in Spine Health from Development through Aging with Sade Clayton, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis

Orthopaedic Medicine

My Path to Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Research with Carla Scanzello, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Featuring Sade Clayton, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis, Alejandro Almarza, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Lance Murphy, BS, University of Pennsylvania, and Martin Stoddart, PhD, AO Research Institute Davos

Sports Medicine / Biomechanics with John Drazan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Fairfield University

Cartilage & Bone with Carolyn Chlebek, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, MaineHealth; Paula Hernandez, PhD, Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern; and Christina Salas, PhD, Associate Professor, University of New Mexico

Spine with Sydney Caparaso, PhD Student, Arizona State University; Nina Tang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis; and Chester Lowe, PhD, CTO, Kubtec

Thank You to Our 2025 Supporters

Overview of the ORS

The Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. ORS is the only international research society focused on orthopaedics and musculoskeletal care. For almost 70 years, the Society’s basic, translational, and scientific research has been used to treat patients with musculoskeletal disorders to ultimately enhance their quality and equity of care.

The ORS has 3,200 members worldwide, including engineers, biologists, clinicians, and students. Its mission is to accelerate musculoskeletal discovery to improve health, achieving a world without musculoskeletal limitations through research, education, community, and advocacy. Society’s core values include – Excellence and Integrity; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI); Innovation and Impact; Respect and Accountability; Connection and Collaboration; and Education and Career Development.

To ignite the DEI strategy, the society developed the following DEI Strategy.

ORS DEI Strategy

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are part of core values of ORS, which include supporting our members, no matter where they live, and ensuring high-quality and equitable care for the patients and communities ORS members serve, no matter where that may be. Our choice to host a meeting in a specific location does not infer support for local laws, policies, or candidates, but instead affirms that we will carry and promote our values and our science wherever we gather

If you are interested in partnering with us, please contact Nikita Halapeti at [email protected].