Ellen and Melvin Gordon Professor of Medical Education, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Master of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Society at the Harvard Medical School and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology; and Orthopaedic Surgeon-in-Chief, Emeritus, at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Dr. White previously served as the Chief of Spine Surgery at Beth Israel and is Director of the Daniel E. Hogan Spine Fellowship Program. He is a graduate of the Stanford University Medical School, holds a Ph.D. from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and an A.B. from Brown University, and graduated from the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. Dr. White is a recipient of the Bronze Star, which he earned while stationed as a Captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Vietnam. He is an internationally known and widely published authority on biomechanics of the spine, fracture healing and surgical and non-surgical care of the spine. He is nationally recognized for his work in medical education, diversity, and issues of health care disparities. Dr. White is a director of Orthologic Corp.