Laurencin Ranked Number One in Orthopaedic Surgery in the U.S. by ScholarGPS

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Portrait of a man wearing a blue suit jacket, white shirt, and patterned bow tie, standing with arms crossed against a neutral gray background. He is smiling slightly and wearing several lapel pins and a pocket square.Professor Sir Cato T. Laurencin, MD, Ph.D., K.C.S.L., has been ranked number 1 in the U.S. in the Orthopaedic Surgery category for 2025 by ScholarGPS over the past 5 years! ScholarGPS ranks scholars based upon a rigorous quantitative assessment of contributions across multiple scientific layers. He is also ranked number 8 in the world.

Dr. Laurencin is the first to receive 4 of the principal honors in orthopaedic surgery in the U.S. He received the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA) Distinguished Contributions to Orthopaedics Award with induction into the AOA Awards Hall of Fame, the Nicolas Andry Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons, the Kappa Delta Award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the Marshall Urist Award from the Orthopaedic Research Society. He is also the first surgeon in history elected to all four of the U.S. national academies. He is also the first surgeon elected to all four U.S. national academies—the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Inventors.

We congratulate Dr. Laurencin on this remarkable recognition and celebrate the continued impact of his work.

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