UCSF faculty included (L to R): Drs. David Shearer, Michael Terry, Nicolas Lee, Madeline MacKechnie, Anthony Ding, Sanjeev Sabharwal.
The 2nd Annual Surgical Management and Reconstructive Training (SMART) Course in Lagos, Nigeria, was held November 12-14, 2025, in partnership with the National Orthopaedic Hospital Igbobi Lagos (NOHIL). Sixty orthopaedic surgeons from across Nigeria attended the three-day course.
The course included sessions on open fracture management/soft-tissue reconstruction and limb deformity, as well as specialty sessions on foot and ankle, hand and upper extremity, and hip hemiarthroplasty.
About Institute for Global Orthopedics and Traumatology (IGOT):
For nearly two decades, Institute for Global Orthopedics and Traumatology (IGOT) has worked to eradicate the unnecessary loss of limb function by increasing the number of surgeons who can provide vital orthopaedic care in the regions that need it the most.
About the IGOT SMART Course:
The SMART course model is an innovative approach to address the global disparity in orthopaedic trauma care that provides orthopaedic surgeons in resource-limited settings with the skills and knowledge to successfully perform surgeries to reduce the incidence of amputations.
Each surgeon attending a SMART Course trains 3-5 surgeons creating a ripple effect of education within low-income countries.
Surgeons completing the SMART Course have a 93% success rate in treating patients with post-traumatic limb-threatening conditions.