As we celebrate this year’s IWD tagged, ‘Accelerate Action’, we bring highlights from the SICOT WiO symposium at Belgrade 2025

The SICOT Women in Orthopaedics (WiO) symposium titled “Navigating challenges in orthopaedic diversity as SICOT was moderated by Ece Cinar (Turkey) and Samundeeswari Saseendar (India).

International Women's Day 2025

Derya Akbaba’s unfolding journey of transformation – from observing a total hip arthroplasty as a fifth year medical student to orthopaedic residency

Derya Akbaba
SICOT Associate Member

Read Derya Akbaba’s unfolding journey of transformation – from observing a total hip arthroplasty as a fifth-year medical student to orthopaedic residency!

Choosing motherhood - A trip down memory lane to SICOT Congress Cairo 2023

Nariman Abol Oyoun
SICOT Active Member

Nariman Abol Oyoun takes us on a trip down her memory lane with highlights from her short talk at the SICOT Diversity Session at the 2023 SICOT Congress in Cairo.

The dawn of a new era: diversity symposia at the SICOT Congress

Temiloluwa Olufemi (Nigeria)
SICOT Associate Member
SICOT WiO Blog Lead

Diversity, equity and inclusion have caused a paradigm shift worldwide. Sadly, most organizations only pay lip service by ‘talking the talk’ without ‘walking the walk’. As the leading international orthopaedic organization, SICOT featured the inaugural diversity symposium at the 2022 SICOT Orthopaedic World Congress (OWC) in Kuala Lumpur with resounding feedback.

A letter of courage

When last did you read a ‘real’ letter?... Join us to read this courageous letter by an anonymous female orthopaedic surgeon in Turkey as she recounts the events 6 February 2023 (English translation by Ece Nur Cinar).

International Women’s Day

South African Female Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Society (SAFOSS)

Marí Thiart (South Africa)
SICOT Associate member

Meet Dr Marí Thiart: Trendsetting foundation member of the South African Female Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Society (SAFOSS)

A Bouquet for SICOT Women

Ece Nur Çınar (United Kingdom)
SICOT Associate Member
SICOT WiO blog video maker

Multi-talented Ece Nur Cinar, an orthopaedic junior in the United Kingdom and SICOT Women in Orthopaedics (WiO) blog video maker tells the story behind the SICOT WiO logo.

Women in Orthopaedics: Luisa Paganini

Luisa Paganini (Brazil)
SICOT Associate Member

SICOT

Women in Orthopaedics