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Arizona Team Leader, Dr. AudreyTsao
 Dr. Audrey Tsao is a fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in total joint reconstruction of the hip and knee, minimally invasive surgery and in the revision of total joint replacement surgeries. She received her medical training at Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University. Currently in private practice at the Sun Valley Orthopaedic Surgeons Center in Arizona, Audrey has published over one hundred articles and abstracts, lectures extensively at industry conferences and has earned multiple awards.
Audrey’s passion for her profession is demonstrated through the three faces of Audrey: the physician/clinician, the academic/researcher and the mentor/teacher. As a healthcare provider, her first priority is to give her patients the best possible orthopaedic care, making them healthy as soon as she can. As a result, any issues or unanswered questions that pose a limitation or obstacle to this goal drive her as an academic. Then, once she has a better understanding, she feels a responsibility to share her knowledge with others. Audrey enjoys the reciprocity of teaching and mentoring and the cycle of learning where the teacher can become the student.
With the insights gained from her extensive career of caring for female patients, Audrey is excited about responding to the special needs of the women of Nepal. In many parts of the world, women’s health is not a priority, not in their community, and sadly, not even to themselves as they are always focused on taking care of others, she explains. “Sometimes it takes another woman to reach out and to help them look inward. I hope our small efforts grow into something more grand than any of us even dreamed of, that 100 years from now people will remember how six women provided orthopaedic care to women in need and it helped to create a global collaborative women’s health movement”.
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