Latest News for the DoS
Grand Rounds
- Division of Thoracic Surgery - Wednesday, May 25, 2022 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM Microsoft Teams
2022 Collins Surgical Day
- Thank you to our 2022 Visiting Professor: Dr. Daniel Borsuk - Contemporary Facial Reconstruction & Transplantation
FoM Awards of Excellence
- The Faculty Member Awards of Excellence celebrate achievements in education, research, engagement, la Francophonie and internationalization and global health.
- Complete the simple, online nomination process by June 20, 2022.
- All nominations will be reviewed by a selection committee of departmental and learner representatives, chaired by the director of awards and prizes.
- For more information, visit the FoM Awards of Excellence webpage or email medaward@uOttawa.ca.
Collins Day Abstract Awards
- W.E. Collins Award for Best Research Presentation: Dr. Jacob Hardy
- Mastectomy Incision Design in Immediate Breast Reconstruction: Quality-of-Life and Surgical Outcomes
- Graeme Barber Award for Best Clinical Research Presentation: Dr. Diego Daniel Pereira
- Lymphovenous bypass for immediate lymphatic reconstruction in breast cancer patients undergoing axillary lymph node dissection: An interim analysis
- J.P. Collins Best Translational Research Presentation: Dr. Abdullah AlDuwaisan
- Histologic analysis of a prosthetic joint infection hip rat model can differentiate between an acute and a chronic infection
- Best Education Presentation: Dr. Janine Hsu
- Prototype of a New Interactive Platform to Assess Resident Progress under the Competency Based Medical Education
- Best Quality Improvement Research Presentation: Dr. Daniel Jones
- Multicentre Positive Deviance Seminar to Generate Best Practice Recommendations to Reduce Anastomotic Leak and Length of Stay for Patients Undergoing Esophagectomy
- Top Posters
- Dr. San Ahn: Accuracy of point of care testing devices for hemoglobin in the operating room: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Dr. Stephanie Antoniades: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study Comparing Conventional Double-Row with Suture Bridge Fixation in Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repairs
- Dr. Andrew Amenyogbe: A survey of physician perception and practices regarding pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis during chemotherapy for bladder cancer
- Medical Student Poster - Sadek Mowakket: Oncoplastic Breast-Conserving Surgery Versus Lumpectomy: Evaluating Oncological Outcomes and Surgical Complications in Locally Advanced Breast Cancer
- Congratulations to Dr. Ron Gerridzen for his 2022 W. J. Keon Award
- The award aims to recognize one surgeon, currently or recently departed from the Department of Surgery (DoS) at the University of Ottawa, who has shown exceptional leadership and achievements within and beyond the field of academic surgery, in alignment with Dr. Keon’s tremendous career and contributions. The achievements can be academic, administrative, educational, and/or societal.
DoS Grant Competitions 2022
- With 23 proposals received, from across the divisions and hospital sites, we would like to congratulate our grant awardees this year. Our amazing DoS Grant Review Committee included members from all divisions and hospital sites, as well as external reviewers, Dr. Sibel Aydin, Dr. Sunita Mulpuru, and Dr. Manish Sood, all of whom provided detailed feedback for each of the proposals. Thank you!
- We would also like to thank divisions who provide matching funds both the Research Program Awards and Big Data Grants. Our Research MOU among uOttawa, the Faculty of Medicine and the Department of Surgery also generously supports a portion of the awards. Finally, we thank the Department of Surgery which supports the remainder of the awards.
Research Program Awards
- Guillaume Martel: Generating an evidence base for the transfusion of red blood cells in non-cardiac surgery
- Hesham Abdelbary: A Single-surgery Multipurpose AntimicRobial implanT (SMART) design to treat periprosthetic joint infections
- George Grammatopoulos: Cellular and molecular characterization of the aging- and arthritic- hip’s intra-articular adipose tissue.
Big Data Grants
- Andrew Seely: Long Term Outcomes and Costs Secondary to Postoperative Adverse Events after Thoracic Surgery
- Angel Arnaout: The influence of Covid19 on virtual cancer care: What’s the impact on patient outcomes, equity and health system costs in Ontario?
Surgical Seed Grants
- Kevin Smit: The use of modern smart phones to detect and monitor scoliosis in adolescents
- Claudia Malic: Effective and Evidence based Recovery After Surgery: An Efficient, Safe and Patient-centric approach (EERAS-ESP)
Junior Faculty Research Grants
- Janelle Rekman: What is the impact of shared care surgical practices on trainee education? A phenomenological qualitative study
- Michael Pickell: Thickening of the zone of calcified cartilage interfacing articular cartilage and subchondral bone during osteoarthritis
Resident Research Grants
- Tori Lenet: A Delphi survey to generate consensus among international experts on elements of an intraoperative transfusion protocol
- Francois Khazoom: Effectiveness of 18F-FDG-PET/CT in the Diagnosis of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- Grant info is here.
