Donald Ranney

Dr. Donald Ranney is a professor meritus in the Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo. He was trained as an orthopaedic surgeon and became the chief of surgery at The Leprosy Mission, Schieffelin Leprosy Research Sanatorium, Karigiri, in South India.

He was thenVisiting assistant professor of Anatomy at Queen's University. He joined the University of Waterloo as associate professor, Department of Kinesiology and became founder and head of the School of Anatomy in 1978. He is a member of the Occupational and Environmental Committee of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (since 1992) and a consultant in Orthopedic Medicine.

He is currently president of Disability Assessment Services, Inc. but continues to be active in research there while seeing injured workers and victims of motor vehicle accidents in his clinic for the purpose of disability assessment.