Honours and Awards

James Wright Awarded the Elizabeth Winston Lanier Kappa delta Award

Dr. James Wright has been awarded the prestigious Elizabeth Winston Lanier Kappa Delta Award for 2002 by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Dr. Wright is Professor of Surgery and Public Health Sciences, and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; Head of Population Health Sciences Program, Research Institute and Robert B. Salter Chair in Pediatric Surgical Research, Division of Orthopaedics, The Hospital for Sick Children. Since 1947, the Kappa Delta Awards have been presented by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons at its annual meeting to persons who have performed research in orthopaedic surgery that is of high significance and impact. The Elizabeth Winston Lanier Award for 2002, named after one of the national presidents of the Kappa Delta Sorority, was given to Dr. Wright and his co-authors Drs. Gillian Hawker and Peter Coyte for their outstanding manuscript on "Area variation and unmet need for orthopaedic surgical procedures". This work found that area variation is at least partially explained by geographic variation in disease prevalence. Furthermore, the bigger issue is one of under-utilisation particularily in women and those of lower socioeconomic status. Dr. Hawker's work was undertaken in the Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research Program, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto. Dr. Coyte's work was undertaken in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and Institute for Policy Analysis, University of Toronto. Their research was supported by the U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

During the current academic year, Dr. Wright was also awarded the prestigious Arthur H. Huene Memorial Award from the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America for his outstanding contributions to pediatric orthopaedics.

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Robin McLeod Named President Elect of the Canadian Association of General Surgeons

Dr. Robin S. McLeod has been named President Elect of the Canadian Association of General Surgeons. Robin is a Professor of Surgery and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, and is Head of the Division of General Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto.

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