Dr. Yelena Bogdan is a board-certified orthopaedic trauma surgeon and the Director of Orthopaedic Education at Jacobi Medical Center in New York City. She serves as an Associate Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Bogdan graduated as valedictorian from Stony Brook University with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Summa cum Laude, in 2006. She obtained her MD from Stony Brook School of Medicine in 2010 and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. She completed her orthopaedic surgery residency at Boston Medical Center, serving as Administrative Chief Resident in her final year and receiving the Outstanding Chief Resident Research Award. Following residency, she completed a fellowship in orthopaedic trauma at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. Dr. Bogdan has received multiple honors, including the Orthopaedic Trauma Association's Memorial Award for her work on atypical femur fractures. She has authored numerous articles in orthopaedic trauma journals and contributed a chapter to the fracture textbook Rockwood and Green. She has presented her work at national meetings, including the Orthopaedic Trauma Association and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Dr. Bogdan is actively involved in orthopaedic education, serving on multiple committees to develop resident and fellow education, and is the current chair of the Education Assessments and Examinations Committee, which creates the OITE resident in-training exam. She is also a Senior Subspecialty Editor of the AAOS's national resident curriculum and the CME editor of JAAOS. Her clinical interests include all aspects of orthopaedic trauma, with particular interest in evidence-based outcomes, bisphosphonate-associated femur fractures, and polytrauma. In addition to her academic and clinical endeavors, Dr. Bogdan serves as a mentor for her former high school and maintains an educational presence on Twitter, where she communicates about evidence-based orthopaedics with surgeons worldwide.