BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Edward Henry Simmons, M.D., B.Sc.(Med), F.RC.S.(C), M.S.(Tor), F A.C.S. 11'

EDUCATION

M.D. University of Toronto, graduating at the age of 22. Winner of Chappeile Prize In Clinical Surgery on graduation. Post-graduate degree of Bachelor of Science in Medicine,1951. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada,1954. Master of Surgery, University of Toronto,1956. Fellow of the American College of Surgeons,1957. Diplomate of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery,1975. Re-certification by examination as a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery - 1983. Re-certification by examination as a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery - 1992.

PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND POSITIONS HELD:

President of the Canadian Orthopaedic Association 1981-1982 (7th Combined
Meeting of Orthopaedic Surgery of the English Speaking World); President of
the Cervical Spine Research Society 1974-1975; President of the Scoliosis
Research Society 1975-1976; Commissioned a Colonel of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky In recognition of contribution to the treatment of crippling
deformities of the spine August 6, 1975; American-British-Canadian Traveling
Fellow (A.B.C. Fellow) 1965; President of the Canadian Orthopaedic Research
Society 1982. Recipient of the Founder's Medal from the Canadian Orthopaedic
Research Society 1982; Examiner of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery;
President of the American Back Society 1991-present. Member of the North
American Spine Society. Member International Society for the Study of the
Lumbar Spine. President of the Medico-Legal Society of Toronto, 1971-1972.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, State University of New York at Buffalo;
Director of University Orthopaedic Spine Service; Orthopaedic Department
Head, Buffalo General Hospital, 1982-1992; Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto 1981; Chairman of the Committee on
Postgraduate Instruction in Orthopaedic Surgery 1958-1975; Chairman of Commit
tee on Postgraduate Training In Orthopaedic Surgery, University of
Toronto,1975-1983; Chief of the Orthopaedic Division of the Toronto East
General and Orthopaedic Hospital, 1975-1983; Chairman of the Sub-Committee on
Postgraduate Training of the Canadian Orthopaedic Association 1980-1982.
Spine Fellowship Director University of Toronto 1966-83, Director of the
University Orthopaedic Spine Service and Fellowship Program, State University
of New York at Buffalo 1983-July 1997. These combined programs have trained
62 spine surgeons now at 58 university centers in North America, 2 in South
Africa, 1 ln Australia, and 1 in China.

PUBLICATIONS:

Author of 20 book chapters; over 156 scientific articles, and 5 teaching
movies. Editorial consultant: Journal of SPINE; consultant editor, Clinica de
Colombia, Bogata, Colombia.

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS AND GUEST LECTURESHIPS:

These total 215, including 46 university visiting professorships and 40
designated lectureships in 75 university centers in 24 countries. He has
given over 900 scientific presentations to national and international
meetings.

DEVELOPMENT of and standardization of technique of cervical osteotomy for
flexion deformity in ankylosing spondylitis under local anaesthesia; the
technique of extension osteotomy of the lumbar spine; surgery of anterior
instrumentation of the spine for correction of spinal deformity introduced to
North America In 1969; Anterior cervical dlscectomy and fusion with the
Keystone technique; Chiari osteotomy for congenital dysplasia of the hip
Joint with arthrosis; rotation as the cause of cubitus varus in supracondylar
fractures of the elbow.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:

Include ongoing basic science and clinical research studies related to
orthopaedic aspects of spinal disability. Senior faculty advisor resulting in
the award of the Edouard Samson Prize of the Canadian Orthopaedic Association
on two occasions for the most outstanding research work done In Canada that
year; the Russell Hibbs Award of the Scoliosis Research Society on two
occasions; the Basic Science Award of the Cervical Spine Research Society;
Two research fellows were awarded the degree of Master of Surgery, and three
the postgraduate degree of Bachelor of Science in Medicine at the University
of Toronto. Development of a basic science research program at the University
of Buffalo with one orthopaedic candidate selected per year with a Master
Degree of completion of a successful thesis. Since it was instituted, four
successful candidates have qualified for their Masters Degree, creating an
opportunity for academic postgraduate basic science activity in the
Orthopaedic Department of the University of Buffalo.

MEMBER:

American Orthopaedic Association; Canadian Orthopaedic Association, Canadian
Orthopaedic Research Society; Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic
Surgeons; International Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology; Fellow of
the Scoliosis Research Society; Founding Member of the Cervical Spine
Research Society; Founding Member of the International Society for the Study
of the Lumbar Spine; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Canada; Fellow of the American College of Surgeons; Honorary Member of the
Western Orthopaedic Society; Honorary Member of the Mid-America Orthopaedic
Society. Honorary Patron Simmons Surgical Society.