John Norgrove Penny

CLINICAL PROFESSOR

Division:
Comprehensive Orthopaedics

Hospital Site:
Vancouver Island – Victoria General Hosptial

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Dr. Penny is a Canadian Orthopaedic surgeon, and a member of the Pediatric Orthopaedics Society of North America (POSNA)

Dr. Penny completed his medical degree at the University of Alberta in 1973. He did his orthopaedic surgery training at the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario, and at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, qualifying as an orthopaedic specialist in 1977. He then did postgraduate fellowship training in sports medicine at the Wellesley Hospital, University of Toronto; Children’s orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Harvard University, Boston; and Children’s Orthopedics at the Nemours/AI DuPont Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, Wilmington Delaware.

Dr. Penny’s current practice concentrates on the treatment of children and adolescents. He has extensive past experience in the field of sports medicine, including team support of Canadian international athletes.
Dr. Penny is a Clinical Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and is a faculty member at the Branch for Global Surgical Care at UBC where he teaches a graduate course on global surgery. He is former head of the division of paediatric surgery for Vancouver Island, helping coordinate surgical services with acute interventional services such as the Paediatric ICU, and he is a board member of the Children’s Health Foundation of Vancouver Island.

Dr. Penny has had a long term interest in international orthopaedics. He worked for six years in Uganda setting up a children’s orthopaedic rehabilitation program and now consults in developing countries around the world. He works in advisory positions for non-governmental organizations involved in orthopaedic training and clinical care in some of the world’s poorest countries. He is an Overseas Fellow of the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA). He has a particular clinical interest in the orthopaedic care of children in austere environments.