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Cameron J. Sabet, MS, MBA, MA

Cameron Sabet is a Georgetown medical student and surgical outcomes researcher focused on optimizing orthopaedic care through data science, systems engineering, and clinical precision. He earned a BA/MA summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and The Wharton School, followed by an MBA and MS in Financial Management from Edinburgh Business School.

As a medical journalist, he has written for The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, and The Hill, and co-authored The Lancet’s 2025 U.S. Presidential Briefing Book. He is also a U.S. Congressional Delegate (VA-08).

Sabet founded Bone Academy, an orthopaedic education app released in 170 countries, and hosts Cutting to the Case, a national interview series highlighting insights from orthopaedic surgeons for trainees nationwide. With 88+ peer-reviewed publications, he serves as Co-Chair of Research for Georgetown Orthopaedic Surgery and serves as the Board of Directors at health tech startups Paratus Health and Niura.

About

Cameron J. Sabet, MS, MBA, MA is an MD candidate at Georgetown University School of Medicine and host of Cutting to the Case: Conversations in Ortho, an interview series to share insights from leaders across musculoskeletal surgery for trainees, including the President of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the Editor-in-Chief of Orthobullets, and the Chair of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons. He is a Georgetown medical student and a Senior Collaborator at the Lancet Global Burden of Disease Initiative.

Cameron holds a BA/MA summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied Buddhist bioethics and management at the Wharton School. He later completed an MS in Financial Management and MBA at the Edinburgh Business School. His research focuses on surgical systems, frailty, and outcome disparities in orthopaedic trauma and spine care. He has authored over 88 peer-reviewed publications with papers in Nature, BMJ, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

He currently serves as Co-Chair of Research for the Georgetown Orthopaedic Surgery Interest Group and Director of Orthopaedic Research at the Social Equity Action Lab, with ongoing multicenter collaborations on risk modeling, extended length of stay, and discharge planning after upper extremity and spinal surgery. His spine surgery outcomes work has been selected for presentation at national meetings including the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the Medical Student Orthopaedic Society.

Sabet is the founder of Bone Academy, an iOS educational app offering 5,000+ orthopaedic questions, interactive quizzes, and multiplayer procedure-based games, as well as OrthoWise, the first artificial intelligence–powered simulator for orthopaedic clinical reasoning. He also developed the Sabet Orthopaedic Call Dashboard, a digital tool for trauma call management.

As a journalist, Cameron has written on healthcare equity and medical ethics in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, and The Hill, and holds a National Scientific Journalism Profile at The Smithsonian. He served as a U.S. Congressional Delegate for Representative Don Beyer (VA-08), co-authoring The Lancet 2025 U.S. Presidential Briefing Book. He has peer-reviewed for Nature, The Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, and BMJ, and is an Academic Editor at PLOS ONE.

Orthopaedic Educational Initiatives

Founder: Bone Academy (iOS app), "The UWorld of Orthopaedics." Featured nationally on AppAdvice.com.

Bone Academy | Founder & Developer
Educational iOS App for Orthopedic Training

Launched free educational platform across 175 countries to address gap in affordable medical education resources
Developed comprehensive question bank with 5,000+ questions across 8 orthopedic subspecialties (exceeding UWorld's 3,600 questions at $550/year)
Integrated features include daily quizzes, multiplayer gaming modules, and step-by-step surgical procedure guides for OR preparation
Target users: Medical students on rotations, residents preparing for OITE exams, and orthopedic learners

Impact: Democratized access to specialized medical education content traditionally behind expensive paywalls

Founder: Sabet Surgylitics. Surgical outcomes tracker for orthopedic trainees that enables real-time logging of complications, case details, and follow-up data, while automatically generating benchmark comparisons and quality improvement reports for M&M presentations and academic performance review.

Founder: Sabet AwayMatch. No single system tracks schedules, flights, housing, or costs for away rotations. Built Sabet AwayMatch: a tool that helps map rotations to fit an applicant's goals, time, and budget.

Founder: World of Ortho, Educational Platform.

Founder: SabetMotion, The Prehabilitation Coach. Prehabilitative coaching platform for orthopedic surgery patients that tracks preoperative progress through daily exercise goals, pain scores, range of motion measurements, educational modules, and milestone achievements to optimize recovery ahead of procedures such as total knee arthroplasty.

Founder: Sabet Orthopaedic Call Dashboard. Real-time orthopedic ER consult tracking software designed to log, manage, and export data on consults, admissions, discharges, and OR cases during active shifts.

Founder: OrthoWise. The world's first AI patient simulator for clinical training in orthopaedics. The platform brings musculoskeletal conditions to life through simulated patients, offering real-time AI training in diagnostic instinct, clinical phrasing, and decision-making. Powered by Orthobullets data, the gold standard for orthopaedic information.

Founder: Sabet Orthopedic Challenge. Simulator to train students on rapid-fire questions they may receive on rotations using anonymized case information.

Awards

Smithsonian Magazine - National Scientific Journalism Profile with honoraria from the Editorial Board for writing as a reporter during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Young Catalyst Abstract Award at the Harvard Global Health Catalyst Summit. Washington, DC. June 5, 2024.

Official 2025 National Academy of Sciences Cozzarelli Prize Nominee.

2025 Global Burden of Disease Emerging Research Award Nominee by the Institute For Health Metrics and Evaluation.

IHME Nominee for the 2025 Roux Prize ($100,000).

Podcasts

Cutting to the Case: Conversations in Ortho (Founder). Featuring interviews with leaders such as AAOS President Ned Amendola, Orthobullets Editor-in-Chief and Chair of OhioHealth Ortho, ASES Chairman and CMO of Rothman Ortho (among the largest ortho chains nationally), Harvard Ortho Chief of Arthroplasty, NBA Washington Wizards Team Ortho Surgeon and Chief of Georgetown Sports Ortho, Duke Ortho Program Director, President of the Dupuytren Research Group, Yale Chair of Ortho at Greenwich Hospital, Yale Associate Ortho Program Director, among others.

Orthopaedics 101 (Co-Founder). Podcast discussing the latest innovations in bone and joint surgery.

Transforming Health Care: An Interview With Cameron Sabet. Interviewed by Yale-trained neurologist and media personality Andrew Wilner, MD on his work in healthcare technology and venture capital.

Investing in the Future of Healthcare: Cameron Sabet on AI and the VC Edge in MedTech. Interviewed by prominent Dubai-based venture capitalist Mehmet Gonullu on advancements in surgical engineering and the future of venture capital in healthcare innovation.

Books

Miles and His Mighty Cast. Published by Medium. Children's book on what to expect with fracture experience to make it a little less scary.

Quality Improvement in Joint Replacement: A Cost Analysis of OR Efficiency Kindle Edition. Published by Amazon, available on Kindle in over 170 countries. 467 Pages. Price: $47.99.

Cameron Sabet & Aishwarya Aggarwal. Cambridge University Press. The Story of Stroke: Key Individuals & The Evolution of Ideas. Chapter 24/61: Stroke Genetics. (2022).

Cameron Sabet. Integrating Advanced Sensing Technologies and AI for Predicting Cardiovascular Risks: A Data-Driven Approach in Modern Healthcare. Chapter 11 of “Cutting-Edge Diagnostic Technologies in Cardiovascular Diseases: Towards Data-Driven Smart Health Care".

Amazon (book), Kindle Direct Publishing. The New Truth: An Anthology of Introspective Poetry. January 21, 2019.

Leadership

Inaugural Member of the Board of Advisors at Paratus Health, Inc. (Now a $20M valuation Y Combinator startup). One of the world's fastest growing healthtech startups globally.

Academic Editor, Public Library of Science (PLOS).

Co-Organizer of the the 2024 Leader in Peace and Security Award for French President Emmanuel Macron with the CEO of the Boston Global Forum.

Delivered the keynote address as a Boston Global Forum Fellow at the Global Action Summit for Artificial Intelligence before the Ambassador-at-Large of China, former US Presidential Candidate Michael Dukakis, fmr. US Congressman Mark Kennedy, Japan’s Minister of State for Economic Security, Japan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Director of the Human Information Laboratory, Taiwan’s inaugural Minister of Digital Affairs, and more.

Co-Director of Global Burden of Disease Research, REAM Ortho

Co-Chair of Research, Georgetown Medicine Orthopaedic Surgery Interest Group. Co-Organized the 2025 Meet the Matches Event.

Global Burden of Disease Senior Collaborator at The Lancet and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

Venture Scout at GoAhead Ventures ($175M assets under management).

Delegate for US Congressional Representative Don Beyer (VA-08). Representing members of the Bahá’í Faith to promote human rights in the face of religious persecution in Iran. Invited to the 2023 Post-State of the Union Press Conference by President Joseph R. Biden in the White House.

Chief Operating Officer at Ivy League Mentoring. As seen on Good Morning America and ABC News. Group of Ivy League students and alums seeking to alleviate educational inequities by supporting high schoolers from low-income communities through tutoring, career advising, college admissions support, and financial aid navigation.

Surgery Research Co-Director and Director of Orthopaedic Research, Social Equity Action Lab.

Peer-reviewed submissions at Nature, The Lancet, International Journal of Surgery, Annals of Internal Medicine, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, The Lancet Global Health, The Lancet Public Health, & Annals of Family Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Annals of Family Medicine, Frontiers in Bioengineering (ortho research), & International Journal of Surgery (ortho research).

Student Member, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Student Member, American College Of Physicians.

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