2005 Comparative Orthopaedics Day
Comparative Orthopaedics Day was developed by The Comparative Orthopaedic Laboratory and The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in order to provide scientists a forum for presentation and discussion of orthopaedic research. This year, the fifth annual Comparative Orthopaedics Day will feature a keynote address by Doctor Allan Gross followed by presentations of original research in the field of orthopaedics. Dr. Gross, and others, will provide input regarding the importance and implications of these projects with respect to orthopaedic research and clinical applications.
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Dr. Allan Gross |
We are incredibly excited and honored to have Dr. Kurt Spindler as our keynote speaker this year. Dr. Spindler is the consummate clinician-scientist in Sports Medicine. He is a critical thinker and an exceptional speaker. He has done a tremendous job in fostering and promoting evidence-based medicine in orthopaedics. He has also organized collaborative multicenter trials aimed at prospective, randomized , controlled research with direct clinical relevance. His major areas of interest in both clinical practice and research include intra-articular ligaments, articular cartilage defects, and meniscus health and disease. He has the amazing ability to perform extremely high level, hypothesis-driven research in these areas and bride the data to clinical practice. He has set the bar for the orthopaedic community in this regard.
We are incredibly excited and honored to have Dr. Allan Gross as our keynote speaker this year. Dr. Gross is a world-renowned authority, innovator, and expert in bone and cartilage transplantation. He is a true clinician-scientist and an exceptional speaker. Dr. Gross developed his interest in bone and cartilage transplantation very early on in his training under the tutelage of Drs. Salter and Dewar. Together with Dr. Fred Langer, he quickly developed this interest into a clinical and research program at the University of Toronto, Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Gross led the team that performed the first osteochondral allograft on New Year’s Day 1972. As part of this endeavor, he has also established a limb salvage program and bone bank. Dr. Gross became Head of the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery at Mount Sinai in 1973 and Chief of Surgery in 1975. He became Head of the Combined Orthopaedic Unit of the Toronto General Hospital and Mount Sinai Unit in 1982, and was the A.J. Latner Professor and Chairman of the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Toronto, from 1986 to 1996. Presently, he is Chief of the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital, and a full professor of the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He holds the Bernard Ghert Chair in Lower Extremity Reconstructive Surgery.
Dr. Gross has published 3 books, 40 book chapters and 126 articles of which most are related to bone and cartilage transplantation and revision arthroplasty of the hip. He was an ABC Traveling Fellow in 1977, and is presently a member of the COA, AOA, and the Hip Society. He has been the orthopaedic surgeon for the Toronto Blue Jays since 1981, and was fortunate to be part of the World Series teams of 1992 and 1993. We are thrilled to have Doctor Allan Gross give our 2005 Comparative Orthopaedics Day keynote address!
The 2005 Comparative Orthpaedic Day was sponsored by:
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