Ronald G. Worton OC FRSC (born April 2, 1942) is a Canadian doctor.
In 1971, he became director of the diagnostic cytogenetics laboratory at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
Worton became geneticist in chief at the hospital and professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Toronto in 1985.
[2] Worton and his team identified the dystrophin gene whose mutation is associated with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies.
[1] Worton has retired from medical research and lives in Oakville, Ontario, spending his winters in Mesa, Arizona.