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James G. Wright, MD MPH FRCS, (born May 30, 1957. Montreal Que.) is a Paediatric Orthopedic Surgeon and Scientist well known for his advancement of evidence based orthopedics and national leadership in improving access to childrens’ surgery. Early in his career he made contributions to the development of measures to evaluate surgical therapy, and evaluating unmet need and disparity in the use of orthopedic procedures. He has performed some of the first international multicenter clinical trials evaluating orthopedic treatments for children and was, in 2016, made a Member of the Order of Canada.

Dr. Wright is currently a Senior Clinical Research Fellow in the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculosceletal Sciences at the University of Oxford. Before moving to Oxford, Dr. Wright worked as an orthopedic surgeon and scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada for 24 years. Dr. Wright held a variety of leadership roles during his tenure. From 2005 to 2014, Dr. Wright served as Surgeon-in-Chief and concurrently, from 2007 to 2015 he was Chief of Perioperative Services. During the latter part of his senior leadership at SickKids he also served as Vice-President, Medical for the hospital (2012-2014). Dr. Wright is a senior scientist in the Child Health Evaluative Sciences Program in SickKids Research Institute, a program he lead from 1999-2004. At the University of Toronto, Dr. Wright is a Professor in the Department of Surgery, Department of Public Health Sciences, and Department of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation.

In addition to his hospital and administrative activities, Dr. Wright was the inaugural Associate Editor for Evidence Based Orthopedics of the American Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. In this role he introduced an evidence-based section of Orthopedics. In conjunction with the AAOS he modified the Oxford Levels of Evidence for orthopedics. Every published article in JBJS since 2003 has been accompanied with a Level of Evidence rating, a process now ubiquitous among orthopedic journals. He edited a 100-chapter book entitled Evidence-based Orthopedics; The best answers to clinical questions. This text, also translated into Chinese, used standardized systematic overviews to answer using Grades of Recommendations a common orthopedic clinical question in each of the 100 chapters. As a member of the Pediatric Society of North America, he chaired the Clinical Trials committee and served as Chair of the Research Council for 4 years.

As a leader in pediatric surgery in Canada, Dr. Wright chaired the Paediatric Surgical Chiefs of Canada from 2010 to 2014. Before becoming Chair, he led, with colleagues, the development of the first ever comprehensive national paediatric wait times access targets for surgery (Pediatric Canadian Access targets for Surgery; PCATS). As lead of the Canadian Pediatric wait time strategy, he applied PCATS to more than 200,000 children waiting for surgery across Canada. This project was awarded the IPAC Deloitte Public Sector Leadership Award in 2009.

Dr. Wright has published more than 230 peer-reviewed articles -- including in Lancet, Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, and the British Medical Journal -- and has contributed to over 15 books. He has an h index of 69 with more than 18000 citations.

EDUCATION: Dr. Wright received his MD from the University of Toronto in 1981 and his MPH from Yale University in 1991. He completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Program from Yale School of Medicine under the mentorship of Dr. Alvan Feinstein and completed clinical fellowships in pediatric orthopedic surgery at SickKids and The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.

RESEARCH: Dr. Wright’s areas of research include studying the characteristics of health and disease and the outcomes of treatment modalities in children. Dr. Wright is engaged in two ongoing randomized trials focused on evaluating botulism toxin for clubfoot and surgical treatments for simple bone cysts. Dr. Wright has served as primary or secondary supervisor for more than 30 MSc and PhD students.

HONOURS: Member of the Order of Canada, June 30, 2014 for his "advances in the field of pediatric orthopedics, notably in identifying the optimal treatment for a number of childhood conditions requiring surgery." His citation reads "A visionary leader in paediatric orthopaedic surgery, James Wright has transformed his field. Through his influential research, he has developed safer surgical procedures that have dramatically reduced errors and complications in young patients. As a result of his leadership and focus on quality, SickKids has become a national centre for paediatric orthopaedic surgery and research. Driven by a desire to improve access to care for children, he also led an important national initiative that resulted in significantly shorter surgical wait times in Canada."

Herbie Fund Lifetime Achievement Award, The Hospital for Sick Children (2014)

Peter Armstrong-MD Shriners Hospital for Children Award, Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, awarded for work on “Antimicrobial Prophylaxis and Rates of Surgical Site Infection in Children.”  (2013)

John Sharrard Memorial Medal, British Society Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery (2012)

President’s Award (inaugural), The Hospital for Sick Children (2011)

IPAC/Deloitte Public Sector Leadership Award, Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC)/Deloitte Public Sector (2009)

CIHR Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis Quality of Life Research Award, Canadian Institute of Health Research, Canada (2005)

Lister Prize for 2001/2002 Department of Surgery, University of Toronto (2002)

AAOS and ORS Kappa Delta Award, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and Orthopaedic Research Society (2002)

Arthur H. Huene Memorial Award, Paediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (2001)

The RCPSC 1998 Annual Medal Award in Surgery, The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (1998)

J. Edouard Samson Award, Canadian Orthopaedic Association Premier Annual Research Award (1998)

ABC Traveling Fellowship, AOA and COA (1997)

George Armstrong Peters Prize, University of Toronto (1996)

CORE-ACORE Research Award, Canadian Orthopaedic Association (1992)

Walter C. MacKenzie-Ethicon Travelling Fellowship Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (1989)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

1.	Weinstein SL, Dolan LA, Wright JG, Dobbs MB. Effects of Bracing in Adolescents With Idiopathic Scoliosis. New England Journal of Medicine. 2013 Oct 17;369(16):1512-21. Epub 2013 Sep 19.

2.	Dodwell E, Snyder B, Wright JG. Off-label use of bone morphogenetic proteins in pediatric spinal arthodesis. JAMA. 2012 Oct 10;308(14):1429-1432.

3.	Wright JG, Wang EEL, Owen JL, Stephens D, Graham HK, Hanlon M, Nattrass GR, Reynolds RAK, Coyte PC. Treatments for paediatric femoral fractures: a randomized trial. Lancet. 04/2005;365:1153-1158.

4.	Temple LKF, McLeod RS, Gallinger S, Wright JG. Defining disease in the genomic era. Science. 08/2001; 293:807-808.

5.	Hawker GA, Wright JG, Coyte PC, Williams JI, Harvey B, Glazier R, Badley EM. Differences between men and women in the use of total joint arthroplasty. New England Journal of Medicine. 2000;342:1012-1022.

6.	Coyte PC, Wright JG, Hawker G, Bombardier C, Dittus R, Paul JE, Freund DA, Ho E. Waiting times for knee-replacement surgery in the United States and Ontario, Canada. New England Journal of Medicine. 1994;331(16):1068-1071.

7.	Wright JG. Hidden barriers to improvement in the quality of health care. New England Journal of Medicine. 2002;346(14):1096.

8.	Borkhoff CM, Hawker GA, Kreder HJ, Glazier RH, Mahomed NN, Wright JG.The effect of patients' sex on physicians' recommendations for total knee arthroplasty. CMAJ. 2008 Mar 11;178(6)

Alma Mater: Yale University (MPH); University of Toronto (MD); Queen’s University (B.Sc.)

Known for: Work in orthopedic surgery, Spina bifida, neuromuscular conditions, primary and recurrent clubfeet, and scoliosis