Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: November 9, 2022
• Invested on: May 08, 2024

Allan Edward Gross, C.M., O.Ont.
Toronto, Ontario

Allan Gross is a trailblazer in orthopaedic surgery. Professor and Bernard Ghert Chair in Lower Extremity Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Toronto, and a surgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital, he is a leading expert in bone and cartilage transplantation. He spearheaded the creation of Mount Sinai Allograft Technologies, the first and largest hospital-based tissue bank for cartilage and bone donations in Canada. He pioneered a novel technique that uses donor tissue to replace parts of knees damaged by trauma, a groundbreaking operation now practised across the globe.