Terry R. Light, MD, is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and an attending surgeon at the Shriners Hospital for Children – Chicago Unit. His orthopaedic hand practice focused on congenital and acquired hand disorders in children. He is a graduate of Yale University and The Chicago Medical School. He completed a surgical internship and an orthopaedic residency at Yale-New Haven Medical Center and a hand fellowship with H. Kirk Watson.

Dr Light served as the Dr. William M. Scholl Chairman of the Loyola Departmental of Orthopaedic Surgery for 25 years. He also served as Interim Dean of the Stritch School of Medicine. He is a past president of the American Society of Surgery of the Hand, the American Orthopaedic Association, the Academic Orthopaedic Society, the Illinois Orthopaedic Society, and the Chicago Society for Surgery of the Hand. He served as chair of the America Foundation for Surgery of the Hand and as the treasurer of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Board of Trustees. He is the recipient of the George H W Bush Lifetime Leadership Award from Yale University and the Pillar of the Orthopaedic Profession Award from the American Orthopaedic Association. Dr Light received the Cross of the Knight Medal of Merit “For Services to Lithuania” and the Ho Chi Minh City Medal for service to the people of Vietnam. He is an honorary member of the hand societies of New South Wales Australia, Hong Kong, and Lithuania as well as a corresponding member of the Japanese Society for Surgery of the Hand. Dr. Light is a volunteer architectural docent with the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust and the Chicago Architecture Center.