Peter Armstrong, MD, FRCSC, FAOA, FACS, FAAP

Dr. Armstrong received his medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1972.  He then served in the Canadian Armed Forces in West Germany from 1973-1976. His orthopaedic residency was done at the University of Toronto followed by a pediatric orthopaedic fellowship with Dr. Robert Salter at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Following his fellowship, in 1982, he joined the orthopaedic staff at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto but spent the first two years doing orthopaedic research at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1991, he then became Chief of Staff of Shriners Hospitals for Children Intermountain (Salt Lake City). In 2000, he was selected as Chief Medical Officer of the 22 Shriners Hospitals and moved to the Headquarters in Tampa. At the end of June 2012, he became the Chief Medical Officer – Emeritus. He began as the Chief Medical Officer for OrthoPediatrics (NASDAQ: KIDS), an orthopaedic device company focused on children and adolescents, in January of 2013 and retired from that at the end of March 2021. 

He is passionate about pediatric orthopaedic education with the ultimate goal of improving the care of children with orthopaedic conditions. He began the Foundation for Advancing Pediatric Orthopaedics in 2018 for this purpose. He served as the President & Chairman of the Board. He retired from that position in 2023. The Board of the Foundation has decided to rename the Foundation the “Armstrong Children’s Orthopaedic Alliance”.

He was honored in 2022 by the British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery as the first Honorary Overseas Member and was presented with the John Sharrard Memorial Medal. In May of 2023, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America.

He, most recently, was selected as the 2024 L. Andrew Koman, MD Distinguished Southern Orthopaedist by the Southern Orthopaedic Association.