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Congratulations to Dr. Bradford, UCSF Orthopaedic Surgery Resident Class of 2005 on receiving the 2021 University of California San Francisco Alumni Mentor Award! This award recognizes an alum who has devoted their career to inspiring, mentoring, and educating the next generation of scientists and health care providers.

Letitia Bradford, MD, FAAOS, FACS is a board-certified Orthopedic Surgeon and a fellow of both the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons. She graduated with the highest honors from the University of California, Berkeley (CAL) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education and from medical school from the University of California, San Francisco. She continued her training there for both Surgical Internship and Orthopaedic Surgery Residency, which also included two years of Mechanical Engineering basic science research back at CAL. She received multiple awards and produced several scientific papers in the field of joint replacement surgery during that time.

She is one of the founding members of the Artemis Medical Society, a professional networking and mentoring organization of African-American female physicians. And she has served as the Chair of the Orthopaedic Surgery Section of the National Medical Association for the last six years. She is currently the Executive Director of Nth Dimensions, a mentoring program whose primary mission is to improve the quality of healthcare to underserved communities of color by increasing the diversity of physicians within competitive fields of Medicine, including Orthopaedic Surgery, Radiology, and Dermatology.