Robert McMurtry (physician)

Robert McMurtry is a Canadian physician and orthopedic surgeon who became a prominent adviser on health policy. He graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1965 and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. After a residency in orthopedic surgery that included two years in Africa, he trained in hand surgery at the University of Iowa, then founded and directed Canada's first Trauma Unit and a multi-disciplinary Hand Unit at Sunnybrook Hospital. He later chaired surgery at the University of Calgary, served as Dean of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario, advised Health Canada and the Romanow Commission on the Future of Health Care, received the Canadian Orthopedic Association's Presidential Award of Excellence in 2003, and was admitted to the Order of Canada in 2011.