Dr. Ross K. Leighton

Schulische Ausbildung

• Dalhousie University Halifax N.S.

Klinischer Werdegang

• Trauma and Arthroplasty

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

• The Gold Standard In Tibial Plateau A Prospective Multicenter Randomized Study Of AIBG Vs. -BSM®--submitted to JBJS Feb 2008 accepted with revisions outstanding
• 1984 - 1985 Fellowship – Revision Arthroplasty, Trauma, Acute Care (ICU)
  University of Toronto, Ontario Dr. James Waddell
• 1985 Fellowship - Trauma (ICU) and Research University of California Davis
   Mr. M. Chapman and Dr. T. Bray.
• 1991 - 2002 Director Of Trauma –QE II HSC
• 1997 - 2001 Director of Trauma for the Province of Nova Scotia Responsible Directly to the Head of Emergency Health Care Services—Reorganized the Province from a Funeral Home Ambulance Service to a State of the Art Inclusive Trauma Care System—Dept of Health Appointment-Province of Nova Scotia
• 1999 Best Clinical Teacher Award – Awarded by the Orthopaedic Residents
• 2000 Best Clinical Teacher Award – Won in conjunction with Chris Cook – Awarded by the Orthopaedic Residents
• 2001 Calcaneal Fractures—Who to Operate on and What are the Outcomes-Ross Leighton M.D., Rick Buckley M.D., Canadian Orthopaedic Trauma Society—Samson Award Winning Paper at the 2001 annual COA meeting Best Clinical Scientific Paper Podium Presentation
• 2002 Best Clinical Teacher Award – Awarded by the Orthopaedic Residents
• 2003 Peer Reviewed AO Research Award to perform a Prospective
  Multi-cantered Randomized Study of LISS Plating - $195,000 Plus $90,000 matched funding from industry – Total $294,000.00
• 2004 Austrian Swiss-German (ASG) travelling Fellowship--Represented the COA and travelled to academic centres in Austria,Switzerland and Germany-One representative from the BOA and Two from the AOA—a great academic experience!!
• 2005 Peer Reviewed research funding -$15,000 to perform Testing on The RIA Reamer and it’s effe3ct on Fat Emboli in the Lung --Research Committee –QE II HSC
• 2006 July 1 Pomotion----Professor of Surgery—Dalhousie University Halifax.NS

Preise und Ehrungen

• Robert Winquest Award—Best Resident Lab –Calcaneal fracture lab—2006
  Orthopedic Trauma Association meeting
• Reseacher Award from Orthopedic Trauma Association (OTA) --productive clinical research that has altered the standard of patient over the last 10 years within the OTA

Mitgliedschaften

• Reviewer - Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma-1998-to present
• Reviewer—Canadian Journal of Surgery—1998--present
• President and Founder of Canadian Orthopaedic Trauma Society -Subsection on Trauma for The Canadian Orthopaedic Association – founded June 1998
  -This organization is the premier trauma group with respect to prospective Randomized trials Alpha Club—Member—2002—present Program Committee Chair—Orthopedic Trauma Association 2004-2007 Program Committee - COA—2001—to present Program Committee Co-Chair—Canadian Orthopedic Association –Halifax 2007