Jaimo Ahn

Jaimo Ahn MD, PhD is Gehring Professor and Associate Chair for Education in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Michigan Health System who specializes in caring for those who have sustained orthopaedic trauma and those in need of fracture repair.

Dr. Ahn was born in Seoul, Korea and grew up in Chicago, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. His higher educational tour began at Stanford University (where he became enthralled with medicine, science and education) followed by a research year at the University of California, San Francisco and a move across the country to Philadelphia to the University of Pennsylvania where he completed his MD, PhD (in Cell and Molecular Biology), Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Molecular Orthopaedics) and Residency (Orthopaedic Surgery). He then rounded out his education with a Fellowship in orthopaedic traumatology at Hospital for Special Surgery / Cornell University, an AO Fellowship in orthopaedic trauma and hip surgery at Inselspital (University of Bern, Switzerland) and finally an AOA Travelling Fellowship through western Canada and US. After almost 25 years at Penn, he joined Michigan Orthopaedics to help lead orthopaedic trauma as well as the education and professional development of trainees and fellow faculty.

When not caring for patients, he has helped lead his field and musculoskeletal health in the US and internationally through foundations such as the US Bone and Joint Initiative, Foundation for Orthopaedic Trauma and AO Foundation, academic publications such as NEJM, JAMA and Cochrane Collaborative and professional organization such as the Orthopaedic Trauma Association, Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons and American Physician Scientists Association, and governmental agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (DoD). He is especially proud of his international service through Orthopaedics Overseas (Nicaragua), BUP (Botswana), Mada Foundation / Sign International (Madagascar) and his teaching-mentoring service to thousands of students, residents, fellows and young faculty all over the world.