Dr. Augustus A. White III is an American surgeon who is the Ellen and Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School and a former Orthopedic Surgeon-in-Chief at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

He was the President and Co-founder of the J. Robert Gladden Society, whose mission “is to increase diversity within the orthopedic profession and promote the highest quality musculoskeletal care for all people.

This episode uncovers how he become the first African American medical student at Stanford, surgical resident at Yale University, Professor of medicine at Yale, and department head at a Harvard-affiliated hospital, Beth Israel Hospital.

To hear more about his story make sure you tune in to another Black Men in Medicine Podcast episode, bringing you nothing but the gems!