AO Education Institute Advisory Committee

The AO Education Institute Advisory Committee (AOEI AC) provides strategic advice and guidance to the AO Education Institute and helps to ensure the efficient deployment of the AO Education Institute infrastructure with respect to service provision to the Clinical Divisions and the AO Education Platform.

The AO Education Institute AC's tasks and responsibilities are to give advice and guidance to the AO Education Institute to sustain its leadership role in:

  • Portfolio of competencies (skills) needed to provide state-of-the–art services in the area of planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of postgraduate medical education programs
  • Scope and quality of educational research projects conducted by AO Education Institute staff or AO Education Institute Fellows
  • Best practice exchange, engagement in, and partnership with leading organizations in the area of postgraduate medical education or faculty development globally
  • Key trends and changing forces in the area of postgraduate/post-board certification medical education
  • Recommending new innovative technologies and techniques for consideration as pilot projects in the Clinical Divisions
  • Identifying regulatory changes and their impact on AO's educational strategies.

Current members

Term: 2025 to 2027

Jeffrey Wang, USA

Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurosurgery, University of Southern California, USC Spine Center
President-Elect AO Foundation
Editor-in-Chief, Global Spine Journal

Adam Rodman, USA

Internal Medicine Physician
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Director of AI Programs, Carl J Shapiro Institute for Research and Education, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Gen AI Task Force Lead, Harvard Medical School
Principal Investigator, Rodman Lab, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Co-Founder, ARISE Research Network
Visiting Researcher, Google DeepMind

Ganesh Padmanabhan, USA

CEO, Autonomize, Inc
Host, Stories in AI 
Past President, Molecula Corp
Past Head of Growth, CognitiveScale
Past General Management Dell Technologies 
Adj. Professor, McCombs School of Business, 
University of Texas in Austin
Past Texas COVID-19 Task Force Member

Ellie Lederer, UAE

EBVS Specialist in Small Animal Surgery - Orthopaedics Umm Suqeim Veterinary Emergency and Referral Centre 
AO Young Surgeons Advisory Group - Veterinary Representative