Unni Narayanan is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children (Sickkids) and Professor in the Departments of Surgery and the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto. A graduate of Madras Medical College, India, he completed his orthopedic

residency at the University of Minnesota, USA and a pediatric orthopedic fellowship at Sickkids, following which he completed an MSc in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Toronto. He

is a Senior Associate Scientist in the Child Health Evaluative Sciences Program of the Research Institute at SickKids.

His clinical practice is focused on the care of children with cerebral palsy (CP), complex lower limb deformity and pediatric trauma. His research program (http://lab.research.sickkids.ca/pscoreprogram/) explores patient priorities to inform the development of meaningful goal-

based patient reported outcome measures (PROMs); and applying these in clinical trials to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions for pediatric musculoskeletal and other disorders.

The PROMs developed by his team have been translated widely and used worldwide. He leads the CHOP study, a large international cohort study of hip outcomes in CP. He is funded by the CIHR and other agencies.

He has served as President of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy & Developmental Medicine; on the Boards of the Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America, including as Chair of the Research Council; and the advisory boards of the CP Research Network (CPRN) and the

CP Foundation (CPF). He is a Scientific Officer for the CIHR College of Reviewers and is on the Editorial Boards of journals in his field. Professor Narayanan has won numerous research and

teaching awards and has traveled widely to present his work on PROMs, outcomes research, CP, pediatric orthopedics and trauma.