Dr. Born is currently Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and the Director of Orthopaedic Trauma at the Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, RI.  He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1970 and completed his premedical studies at Columbia University in New York City. After receiving his MD degree from Georgetown University in 1979, he went on to complete five years of orthopedic training at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1984 until 1996 he was the Assistant Division Head of Orthopedic Surgery at Cooper Hospital University Medical Center in Camden, New Jersey, and was an Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. In 1996, Dr. Born rejoined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania as an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, serving as the Co-Director of Orthopedic Trauma.  Prior to joining the faculty at Brown University, he was a Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Temple University in Philadelphia and the Co-Director of Orthopedic Trauma there.  Dr. Born is a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and is a Board member of the Orthopedic Trauma Association.  He currently serves as the Chairman of its Mass Casualty Response Committee and is the past Chairman of its Fellowship Committee.  Dr. Born is honored to have been a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the US Military Hospital in Landstuhl, Germany and serves on the combined Academy/OTA’s Extremity War Injury and Disaster Preparedness Work Group where he chairs the section on disaster response.  He is also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and for eight years served on its Committee on Trauma in addition to being the Section Chairman for Orthopaedic Surgery.  He is currently a consultant to the College’s Committee on Trauma ad hoc Disaster Sub-Committee and is a Specialty Society Governor for orthopaedic surgery.  Dr. Born is President-elect of the Foundation for Orthopedic Trauma.  He writes and lectures extensively on issues of musculoskeletal trauma and disaster management both nationally and internationally. He has traveled to Iran and recently to Haiti with the International Medical Surgical Response Team of DHS/HHS to give humanitarian medical aid to victims of massive earthquakes.  Dr. Born heads the Diane N. Weiss Center for Orthopaedic Trauma Research and is the Director of the Stein/Bellet Fellowship for Orthopaedic Trauma Research.  The group was recently awarded a large grant from the Airlift Foundation to study surface coatings for trauma implants and works with the Brown/VA Hospital Center for Restorative and Regenerative Medicine for which he serves on the Scientific Advisory Board.