Member of the Order of Canada
Awarded on: 2017-12-11
Invested on: 2018-11-20
Peter John Fowler, C.M.
London, Ontario
Peter Fowler is an icon in Canadian sport medicine. A renowned orthopaedic surgeon, he is recognized for contributing to the advancement of the medical treatment of athletes, notably for his innovative use of the arthroscope in treating musculoskeletal disease. He is the co-founder of the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic at Western University, which is recognized as a world-class centre of sport medicine excellence. He is now retired, but his legacy lives on through the success of the many young orthopaedic surgeons he has trained and mentored through the clinic.