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Personal Life

Dr. Tross was born in Georgetown in Guyana in 1968 to Sammy and Gwendolin Tross. She was the second of four children[1] and she is said to have borrowed her brother's toys.[2] She attended primary school in Guyana. Her family moved to Britain when she was eleven,[3] because her father who worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat was given a post in Britain.[1] The secretariat is based at Marlborough House in London.[4] Tross completed her education at private schools in Britain and then at Matthew Boulton College in Birmingham. She excelled at sport becoming the British national long jump champion for her age and she passed A-Levels in applied mathematics, chemistry and biology.[3] She took medicine at University College London, where she decided to become a surgeon.

Professional Life

Dr. Tross, was unsure of what caused her initial interest in medicine in medicine but thinks that the death of her grandparents at the young age of 7 had a contribution to her interest. She also notes that while in medical school she was exposed to many different specialties in meidcine, but the surgeons in the orthopedics made her fell wanted and useful

This was an unusual course for a British woman. Only 11% of consultant surgeons in Britain are female.[5] She trained at various hospitals and completed her training in Orthopaedic surgery in 2004. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. She specialises in re-constructive hip and knee surgery.[1]

Although she is known for her work with hip and knee surgery, she also does work on the shoulder, elbow, hand and foot and ankle.

Notable Achievements

Dr. Tross's brief biography is included (in 2015) in the International Slavery Museum run by Liverpool Museums.[6] Dr. Tross is said to be one of the 100 most influential Black Britons; in 2011 and 2012 she was included in JP Morgan's Black Powerlist.[7] She was also included on the 2013 Power List, published by Lloyds Banking Group and Thomson Reuters.[8] Tross was the subject of a biography by Verna Wilkins in 2008.[9]

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Other surgeries

anything done after 2015