Practice Information
- Age groups you are accepting new hip dysplasia patients: Not accepting new patients
Contact Information
- Name: John H, Wedge
- Degree: OC, MD, FRCSC
- Title / Position: Professor of Surgery University of Toronto, Chair Sickkids International / IHDI Medical Advisory Board Member
- Place of Employment / Office Name: Hospital for Sick Children
- Street Address: 555 University Avenue, Rm M568
- City: Toronto
- State/Province: Ontario
- Zip/Postal code: M5G 1X8
- Country: Canada
- Office phone number: 416.813.6944
- Office fax number: 416.813.6692
- Medical or Surgical Specialty: Orthopaedic Surgery, Pediatric Orthopaedics
Professional Education and Memberships
- Medical School: University of Saskiatchewan College of Medicine
- Residency: Royal Victoria Hospital MCGill University Montreal, University Hospital Saskatoon Saskatchewan
- Fellowship training:Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, University of Saskatchewan, University of Oxford Nufield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
- Certifications:American Board of Orhtopaedic Surgery, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, American College of Surgeons
- Society Memberships (list up to four only):
- American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
- Specific training in hip dysplasia:AO International Fellowship
- Academic contributions for DDH research or education including publications:
- Wedge JH, Salter RB: Innominate osteotomy: Its role in the arrest of secondary degenerative arthritis of the hip in the adult. Clinical Orthopaedics 1974: 98: pp 214-224.
- Wedge JH, Wasylenko MJ: The natural history of congenital dislocation of the hip: A critical review. Clinical Orthopaedics 1978: 137: pp 154-162.
- Wedge JH, Wasylenko MJ: The natural history of congenital disease of the hip. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 1979: 61B: pp 334-338.
- White WE, Wedge JH, Sargent CM: Failure analysis of Charnley-Muller total hip replacement prosthesis. Microstructural Science 1979: 7: pp 27-39.
- Salter RB, Hamilton HW, Wedge JH, Tile M, Torode IP, O’Driscoll SW, Murnaghan JJ, Saringer JH: Clinical application of basic research on continuous passive motion for disorders and injuries of synovial joints: A preliminary report of a feasibility study. Journal of Orthopaedic Research 1984: 1: pp 325-342.
- Wedge JH: Assessing children’s legs and feet. Canadian Family Physician 1985: 31: pp 595-598.
- Wedge JH, Powell JN, Ulmer BG, Reynolds R: Biodegradable resurfacing of the hip in dogs. Clinical Orthopaedics 1986: 208: pp 76-ff.
- Wedge JH: Hip pain in adolescence. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 1987: 225: pp 93-103.
- D’Antonio JA, Capello WN, Border LS, Bargar WL, Bierbaum BF, Boettcher WG, Steinberg ME, Stulberg SD, Wedge JH: Classification and management of acetabular abnormalities in total hip arthroplasty. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 1989: 243: pp 126-137.
- Wedge JH, Munkacsi J, Loback D: Anteversion of the femur and idiopathic osteoarthrosis of the hip. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 1989: 71A: pp 1040-1043.
- Wedge JH, Wasylenko MJ, Houston CS: Minor anatomic abnormalities of the hip joint persisting from childhood and their possible relationship to idiopathic osteoarthrosis. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 1991: 264: pp 122-128.
- McKenna PH, Khoury AE, McLorie GA, Churchill BM, Babyn PB, Wedge JH: Iliac osteotomy: A model to compare the options in bladder and cloacal exstrophy reconstruction. Urology 1994: 151: pp 182-187.
- Wedge JH, Cummiskey DJ: Primary arthroplasty of the hip in patients who are less than twenty-one years old. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 1994: 76A: pp 1732-1741.
- Wedge JH: Osteotomy of the pelvis for the management of hip disease in young adults. Canadian Journal of Surgery 1995: 38(1): pp S25-S32.
- Wedge JH: Editorial: Hip joint acetabular dysplasia. Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics 1997: 17(2): pp 4-5.
- Roposch A, Wedge JH: An incomplete periacetabular osteotomy for treatment of neuromuscular hip dysplasia. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 2005: 431: pp 166-175.
- Roposch A, Wedge JH, Krahn M: The role of the ossific nucleus in the treatment of established hip dislocation. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 2006: 449: pp 295-302.
- Thomas SR, Wedge JH, Salter RB: Outcome at forty-five years after open reduction and innominate osteotomy for late-presenting developmental dislocation of the hip. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 2007: 89: pp 2341-50.
- Wedge J, Thomas S, Salter R: Outcome at forty-five years after open reduction and innominate ostoeotmy for late-presenting developmental dislocation of the hip. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American) 2008: 90 Suppl 2: pp 238-53.
- Wedge JH: Dislocation and epiphyseal separation. In: The Hip and Its Disorders (Steinbert ME, ed). W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia 1991: pp 129-143.
- Wedge JH: Hip: Pediatric aspects. In: Orthopaedic Knowledge Update 4, Home Study Syllabus (Frymoyer JW, ed). American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Illinois 1993: pp 505-513.
- Wedge JH, Cummiskey DJ: Primary arthroplasty of the hip in patients younger than twenty one years old. In: Instructional Course Lectures (Jackson DW, ed). American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Illinois 1995: pp 275-280.
- Wedge JH, Bogoch ER: The surgical management of juvenile arthritis. In: Oxford Textbook of Orthopedics and Trauma (Buckwalter J, Bulstrode C, Carr A, Fairbank J, Marsh L, Wilson-MacDonald J., eds). Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom 2002.
