Alan R. Hudson, MD has received many awards and has been involved in several professional activities that have helped to establish him as a world-class researcher and authority on the peripheral nerve. He has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada (Canada’s highest civilian award), he presents the Hudson teaching awards named in his honor, and he provides counsel to the Alan and Susan Hudson Chair in NeuroOncology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Hudson is a co-author of Atlas of Peripheral Nerve Surgery, 2nd Edition.

Dr. Hudson graduated from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) with an MD in 1960. Subsequent training in general surgery led to Fellowship with the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh), and neurosurgical training at the University of Toronto, achieving Fellowship with the Royal College of Surgeons (Canada) in 1968. He spent 1969 as a McLaughlin Fellow at Oriole College, Oxford, studying the ultrastructure of peripheral nerve regeneration. Dr. Hudson then became Professor and Chairman of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto; McCutchson Chair of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at The Toronto Hospital; President of the Sunderland Society, the Society of University of Neurosurgeons, and the Canadian Neurosurgical Society; and Honorary President of the World Federation of Neurological Surgeons. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor’s Degree from the University of Tokushima, and made an Honorary Fellow of the College of Surgeons of South Africa (Neurosurgery). Dr. Hudson was appointed President and CEO of University Health Network (Toronto General, Toronto Western, and Princess Margaret Hospitals), and subsequently completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Dr. Hudson’s primary research and clinical interests have included the surgery of peripheral nerves, with a 25-year close association with Professor David Kline, with whom he wrote Atlas of Peripheral Nerve Surgery. He has more than 130 publications and has made numerous presentations, including keynote addresses for major professional associations and universities.

Related Authors: Daniel H. Kim, MD, FACS; David G. Kline, MD