C. Ronald MacKenzie, MD
Ronald MacKenzie is Associate Attending Physician at Hospital for Special Surgery and Director of Perioperative Medicine with the HSS Spine Care Institute. He is also Chair of the American College of Rheumatology Ethics and Conflicts of Interest Committee.
Dr. MacKenzie's interest in bioethics grew out of a melding of his former role as Chairman of the HSS Institutional Review Board and his affinity for the humanistic aspects of medical practice. Over the years he has had the opportunity to explore a range of subjects relevant to medical ethics, including an appointment as a Faculty Scholar in the Ethics Division of Weill Cornell.
Dr. MacKenzie has written a number of papers pertaining to a range of ethical issues, including medical professionalism, justice in the rheumatic diseases, informed consent, and conflict of interest. In addition, he has contributed chapters on ethics of clinical research for a number of major textbooks in rheumatology, and is responsible for the creation of Ethics Forum, a quarterly column in The Rheumatologist journal which features analysis and commentary on ethically challenging cases solicited from the practicing rheumatologic community.
It is Dr. MacKenzie’s vision that HSS continue to expand its national influence in rheumatology while establishing an important role in shaping ethical standards for medical research and practice.
Appointments
Associate Attending Physician, Hospital for Special SurgeryAssociate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Co-Medical Director, Center for Brachial Plexus and Traumatic Nerve Injury
Non-Operative Director, Spine Care Institute
Specialty
RheumatologySpecialized Centers
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Industry Relationships |
One of the goals of Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) is to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and related disciplines for the benefit of patients. Physicians at HSS may collaborate with outside companies for education, research and medical advances. HSS supports this collaboration in order to foster medical breakthroughs; however HSS also believes that these collaborations must be disclosed.
As part of the disclosure process, this website lists physician collaborations with outside companies if payments were received during the prior year, or if the HSS physician currently receives payment. The disclosures are provided by information provided by the physician and other sources and are updated regularly. Further information may be available on individual company websites.
Below are the healthcare industry relationships reported by Dr. MacKenzie as of March 22, 2012.
- The Osborn (Continuing Care Retirement Community) - Board of Trustees
- Osborn Home Care (Licensed Home Health Care Agency of The Osborn) - Board of Directors
By disclosing the collaborations of HSS physicians with industry on this website, HSS and its physicians make this information available to their patients and the public, thus creating a transparent environment for those who are interested in this information. Further, HSS’ Conflicts of Interest Policy does not permit physicians to collect royalties on products developed by him/her that are used on patients at HSS.
Patients should feel free to ask their HSS physicians questions about these relationships.
Education
MD, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1977
Residency
Family Medicine, Calgary General Hospital, Alberta, Canada
Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba Affiliated Hospitals, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Fellowship
- Fellow, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
- Fellow, American College of Rheumatology
- Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine
Certification
RheumatologyInternal Medicine
State Licensure
New YorkC. Ronald MacKenzie, MD has contributed to the following articles on HSS.edu:
For Patients
For Professionals
- Methodological Challenges of Multiple-Component Intervention: Lessons Learned from a Randomized Controlled Trial of Functional Recovery Following Hip Fracture
- Are Ambulatory Surgical Patients as Healthy as We Think?
- Ethics: Professionalism and Medicine
- Ethics: Nuances of Informed Consent: The Paradigm of Regional Anesthesia
- Ethics and Conflict of Interest
- Perioperative Management of Patients with Connective Tissue Disease
- Pulmonary Embolism after IVC Filter
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Rheumatoid Arthritis: No Longer the Last Resort!
- What Would a Good Doctor Do? Reflections on the Ethics of Medicine
Selected Publications
For more publications, please see the PubMed listing.
Clinical Trials
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