Dr. Richard Gardner is a Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon and Assistant Professor at SickKids Hospital and the Department of Surgery, University of Toronto. He has a special focus in lower extremity surgical management of children with neuromuscular conditions and hip surgery. Dr. Gardner completed his undergraduate training in London and his orthopaedic surgical training in London and Bristol, UK. After orthopaedic fellowship training at SickKids, Toronto, he moved with his family to Ethiopia to work at the CURE hospital in Addis Ababa for the following 7 years. During this time Dr. Gardner became the Medical Director of the hospital, established the first paediatric orthopaedic fellowship program in Ethiopia. In 2020, he became Chief Medical Officer for CURE International’s network of 8 hospitals across Africa and the Philippines and moved to Zimbabwe to open a new paediatric orthopaedic hospital in Bulawayo. Dr. Gardner works with the College of Surgeons of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa, leading the paediatric orthopaedic subspeciality examination since its inception in 2018. In 2023, he and his family returned to Toronto to work at SickKids, with a clinical focus on the care of children with neuromuscular and hip pathology and an academic focus directed towards global surgery.