IGOT is supported and housed at the UCSF SFGH Orthopaedic Trauma Institute. The OTI’s Mission is “To Mend the Injured, Inspire Innovations and Empower Leaders to Restore Lives”. The OTI is based at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, a leading global health institution that IGOT is proud to call home.
Our global network of partner institutions is key to our work at IGOT. Our partner institutions are academic centers in resource-constrained environments that we collaborate with on training, research, and ultimately improving patient care.
Hospital Antonio Lenin Fonseca: Managua, Nicaragua
One of the main national referral hospitals in Managua Nicaragua, Hospital Antonio Lenin Fonseca serves as a teaching institution for orthopaedic training programs, and a site for service-based NGOs.
Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled Children: Katmandu, Nepal
HRDC is a program of a non-governmental organization, the Friends of the Disabled. It is a tertiary level pediatric orthopaedic hospital in the country located in Banepa which provides high quality reconstructive surgery and rehabilitation for children under 16 years of age.
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital: Kumasi, Ghana
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) is located in Kumasi, Ghana the Regional Capital of the Ashanti Region. The hospital became a teaching hospital in 1975 for the training of medical students in collaboration with the School of Medical Sciences of the University of Science and Technology.
Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre Malawi
1 of 4 Tertiary hospitals in Malawi providing orthopaedic and trauma care and training. Queen’s is an Orthopaedic Overseas site and home to the Orthopaedic Clinical Officers program which is a task-shifting model to improve surgical care and local capacity for treatment.
Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute: Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
It is the mission of Muhimbili National Hospital (NMH) to provide effective, efficient and high quality tertiary specialist medical services for referred patients from all areas of Tanzania, while providing an environment for training and research.
Our affiliates are other like-minded organizations around the world that help us to meet our mission.
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)
Bedford Orthopaedic Centre: Mthatha, South Africa
Black Lion Hospital: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Brown University, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Cooperative Orthopedics between Nicaragua and America (COAN)
Global Partners in Anesthesia and Surgery
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
King Edward Medical University and Mayo Hospital: Lahore, Pakistan
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Makerere University, Mulago Orthopaedic Hospital: Kampala, Uganda
MOI Teaching and Referring Hospital: El Doret, Kenya
National Military Academic Hospital NMAH: Kabul, Afghanistan
Orthopaedic Trauma Association
Osteosynthesis and Trauma Care Foundation
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation
SIGN Fracture Care International
Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie
University of British Columbia, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery USTOP
UC Berkeley School of Public Health
UCSF Center for Global Surgical Studies
University of Utah Department of Orthopaedics
UCSB Department of Global & International Studies
West African College of Surgeons