Dr. Rob Balyk
What is your role at the GSSMC?
Director of the GSSMC Shoulder Program
Do you hold any positions outside the clinic?
- Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery
- Site Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Grey Nuns Hospital
- Examiner for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (2008-2013)
- Founding member of the Shoulder and Upper Extremity Research Group of Edmonton (SURGE)
- Founding member of the Joint Orthopaedic Initiative in National Trials in Shoulder Research (JOINTS) Canada, now known as Canadian Shoulder and Elbow Society (CSES)
- International Member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)
What is you clinical specialty?
- Management of shoulder pain and dysfunction
- Recognized as a leading clinical and academic authority in the surgical management of shoulder injury in sport and the workplace
What did you study and where?
- Graduated with a Medical Degree from the University of Manitoba in 1983
- Residency in Orthopaedics at the University of Alberta in 1991
- Awarded an Orthopaedic Fellowship in Trauma in Austria
- Sport Medicine Fellowship at the Virginia Mason Clinic in Seattle, Washington
