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Dr Alexandra Kirkley Presidential Award for Excellence Recipient |
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Presidential Award for Excellence Recipient
Dr. Alexandra Kirkley
Robert M. Hollinshead, M.D., FRCSC
Calgary, AB
It was a great honour for me to present our second Presidential Award for Excellence in the name of the late Dr. Alexandra (Sandy) Kirkley.
Sandy prepared herself as a surgeon and researcher well by following her M.D. at the University of Western Ontario (UWO) and residency at McMaster University with two years of sport medicine surgery fellowships and an MSc on Quality of Life Measurement Tools.
Joining the faculty at UWO, she quickly made an imprint locally, nationally and internationally. She was recognized as a superstar by every organization she belonged to. Sandy took leadership roles readily, serving as President of the Canadian Orthopaedic Residents Association and the Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine. She also made significant contributions to the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, AANA, AOSSM and ISAKOS. Dr. Kirkley inspired trainees and researchers and supervised many Masters and PhD graduate students. One of Sandy’s greatest legacies came as she was the Founding President of the Canadian Shoulder Research Group, later renamed JOINTS Canada through which she initiated many world-class multi-centre trials on the shoulder. Sandy’s achievements and memory live on through the Sandy Kirkley Foundation as well as in the hearts and minds of all of us privileged to have known her.
I sometimes get to thinking about what she may have accomplished in the last 25 years of her career, given the absolutely phenomenal accomplishments she achieved in just the first ten years of it.
Sandy will live on in our hearts and memories forever.
I would like to thank Dr. Robert Litchfield, Sandy’s colleague at the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic in London, for accepting this award in Calgary on Sandy’s behalf.
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Dr. Sandy Kirkley
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 21 March 2007 )
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