AANA Health Policy Fellowship Now Open for 2026 Applications
Posted 11/3/2025
The past decade has witnessed tremendous change in the reimbursement and regulation of musculoskeletal care – and the future promises even greater change. To proactively influence the legislative and regulatory forces shaping this evolution, AANA established the Health Policy Fellowship, designed to prepare early-career Orthopaedic Surgeons to engage in the national health care policy discussion.
This special one-year fellowship, supported by Moximed, offers participants the opportunity to gain first-hand experience in advocacy, health policy and leadership within the orthopaedic community.
The AANA Health Policy Fellowship is open to Orthopaedic Surgeons in the United States who have completed a certified arthroscopy and/or sports medicine fellowship and who are AANA Members in good standing.
A complete application will include:
- Submission of a personal statement.
- For current Fellows, letters of support and approval from the Director of the applicant’s arthroscopy/sports medicine fellowship
- For practicing post-graduate applicants, two letters of support from AANA Members who have in-depth knowledge of the applicant’s practice and advocacy interest.
The selected Health Policy Fellow will choose a research topic and present the results of this project to the membership upon completion of their Fellowship at the AANA Annual Meeting.
The application deadline is Monday, December 15, 2025.
For questions related to the AANA Health Policy Fellowship, contact AANA Research and Data Analyst Pablo Palafox-Castillo, M.S. at pablo@aana.org.