Anthony Cooper

February 13, 2024

CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Division:
Pediatric Orthopaedics

Hospital Site:
Vancouver – BC Children’s Hospital

Dr. Anthony Cooper is an Orthopaedic Surgeon and Head of the Department of Pediatric Orthopaedics at BC Children’s Hospital (BCCH) as well as a Clinical Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He obtained his medical and Orthopaedic training at the University of Leeds before completing a clinical Orthopaedic fellowship at BCCH. Additionally, Dr. Cooper completed a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Toronto in the specialty of Healthcare and Lifesciences.

Dr. Cooper treats a multitude of complex congenital and acquired limb deformities including Fibular Hemimelia, Tibial Hemimelia, Congenital Femoral Deficiency, Legg-Calve-Perthes (Perthes) Disease, and Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI). His clinical practice focuses on limb lengthening and reconstructive surgery. His research interests include quality of life and clinical outcomes of children with limb differences, hip deformities, and trauma.

Dr. Cooper is the founder of the International Limb Differences Network (ILDN), an international network of healthcare professionals and researchers whose main objective is improving the quality of life for children with limb differences. Dr. Cooper has also co-lead the development of Limb-Q kids, an internationally applicable patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for children with lower limb differences.

Dr. Cooper is actively involved in teaching and mentoring undergraduate, medical, nursing, occupational therapy, and physiotherapy students as part of his clinical and research practice. He is also the fellowship director for the department of Orthopaedics at BCCH. He is the

director for the Canadian Pediatric Orthopaedic Trauma Conference. He is also the President of the Canadian Pediatric Orthopaedic Society (CPOS).

Research Interests & Publications

Research Interests:

  • Quality of life and clinical outcomes for children with limb differences
  • Pediatric trauma
  • Pediatric hip condition

Publications:

Chhina H, Klassen A, Bade D, Kopec J, Cooper AP. Establishing content validity of LIMB-Q Kids: A new patient-reported outcome measure for lower limb deformities. Qual Life Res. 2022;31(9):2805-2818. PMID: 35471486

Groenewoud R, Chhina H, Bone J, Sabharwal S, Iobst C, Bafor A, Cooper AP. Inter and Intra-Rater Reliability of the Checketts Grading System for Pin Site Infections across all Skin Colours. Strategies Trauma Limb Reconstr. 2023;18(1):2-6. DOI: 10.5005/jp-journals-10080-1581

Jønsson CE, Poulsen L, Rölfing JD, Chhina H, Cooper AP, Sørensen JA. Danish Linguistic Validation and Cultural Adaptation of the LIMB-Q Kids. Children (Basel). 2023;10(7): 1107. DOI: 10.3390/children10071107

Murad Y, Chhina H, Cooper AP. Fully Automated Analysis of The Anatomical and Mechanical Axes from Pediatric Standing Lower Limb Radiographs using Convolutional Neural Networks. Accepted in Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics, December 2023.

Wang A, Chhina H, Cooper AP. Multimodel Analgesia for Patients Undergoing Lower Limb Reconstruction with External Fixators; A Prospective Case Series of Postoperative Pain and Functional Goals. Accepted in Strategies in Trauma and Limb Reconstruction, December 2023.


For more information regarding Dr. Cooper’s published research, please click here.

Teaching Interests

  • Pediatric Orthopaedics
  • Limb lengthening and reconstruction
  • Pediatric Trauma

Academic Background

  • University of Leeds Medical School
  • University of British Columbia Clinical Fellow, Department of Pediatric Orthopaedics
  • Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society Travelling Fellowship
  • University of Toronto MBA in Healthcare & Lifesciences