HULC Faculty and Staff
All surgeons at the Hand and Upper Limb Centre are certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in either Plastic or Orthopaedic Surgery. All surgeons have completed advanced upper extremity surgical fellowships in various places, including Duke University, Mayo Clinic, University of Toronto, Kleinert Hand Institute, Hawkins Steadman Clinic, Fowler Kennedy Sports Medicine Clinic, University of Calgary, Royal North Shore Hospital, Hospital for Special Surgery, University of Iowa, HULC and Harvard University and they are appointed as teaching faculty to the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario. In addition most surgeons have additional graduate degrees, as either MSc, MEd, MHPE, or PhD degrees. The HULC Faculty also includes three PhD level basic scientists, who direct the various research labs on a day-to-day basis.
For more information on the HULC Staff, including contact numbers, please see their websites:
James Roth, MD FRCSC FACS (Director)
- Robert McFarlane, MD MSc FRCSC (deceased)
- Douglas Ross, MD MEd FRCSC
- David Chess, MD MSc FRCSC
- Graham King, MD MSc FRCSC
- Robert Richards, MD FRCSC
- Ken Faber, MD MHPE FRCSC
- Bing Siang Gan, MD PhD FRCSC FACS
- Darren Drosdowech, MD FRCSC
- George Athwal, MD FRCSC
- Ruby Grewal, MD MSc FRCSC
- Marie-Eve LeBel, MD FRCSC
- Jim Johnson, PEng PhD
- Joy MacDermid, PT MSc PhD
- David O'Gorman, MSc PhD
- Louis Fereirra, PhD PEng


