He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada and certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.

In 1975, he was selected as the McLaughlin Fellow and then pursued advanced Fellowship training in Head and Neck Oncology in Pittsburgh and New York.

He has delivered over 830 invited and keynote presentations, including the Eugene Myers International lecture at the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) annual meeting September 2006, received the 2007 Medtronic Alumni Award from the National University Ireland (Galway) for contributions to Health Care and Medical Science, the Sir Peter Freyer Memorial lecture to the Irish surgical Forum NUI-Galway in 2009, the John J. Conley lecture to the American Head & Neck Society in 2012, the 87th Abraham Colles lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in February 2012 and the Hayes Martin lecture at the 5th World Congress of IFHNOS and annual meeting of the American Head & Neck Society in New York in July 2014.

He was one of six International Faculty leaders who conducted the IFHNOS Head and Neck World Tour Program in 2008.

In 2014, in recognition of his outstanding contributions, an endowed Chair was named in his honour at the University Health Network/University of Toronto.