Franklin H. Sim MD

Franklin H. Sim graduated from Dalhousie University Medical School in 1964. He completed his orthopedic residency training at Mayo Clinic and was influenced by Dr. Jack Ivins in the area of musculoskeletal oncology. Dr. Sim became a leading innovator and proponent of limb sparing surgery in patients with bone and soft tissue tumors in the 1970s. He was a founding member of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society and has been active in the International Society of Limb Salvage (ISOLS) and the International Skeletal Society (ISS).

He was a member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS), the American Orthopedic Association (AOA), and the Canadian Orthopedic Association (COA) for his entire career. Doctor Sim has spent the past 47 years of his career on the Mayo Clinic faculty where he has trained hundreds of residents and more than 50 orthopedic oncology fellows from the United States and overseas.