Department of Surgery

Annual Chair's Address: Dr. Rodney Breau, Division of Urology - Surgical bleeding and blood transfusion: A Phase IV trial of a hospital policy of Tranexamic acid to reduce transfusion in major non-cardiac surgery (TRACTION) (Wednesday, November 4, 2020 via Mircosoft Teams)

Congratulations to those recently promoted in the Department of Surgery!  All 9 of 9 applicants were promoted this year. Thank you to the Departmental Teaching Personnel Committee (DTPC), whose work supported the preparation of the promotion packages by our applicants. 

• Full Professors: Dr. Angel Arnaout, Dr. Rebecca Auer, Dr. Munir Boodhwani, Dr. Juan Grau
• Associate Professors: Dr. Fahad AlKherayf, Dr. Prasad Jetty, Dr. Claudia Malic, Dr. Phillippe Phan, Dr. Eve Tsai

Congratulations to those awarded Clinical Research Chairs in the Department of Surgery. There were numerous outstanding candidates for all the awards from the department, and overall, it was a highly-competitive process across the Faculty of Medicine. We look forward to seeing the results of this investment in our researchers.

• Tier 1 Clinical Research Chair: Dr. Rebecca Auer - Perioperative Cancer Therapeutics
• Tier 1 Clinical Research Chair: Dr. Andrew Seely - Innovative Use of Clinical Data to Monitor Systems and Improve Patient Care
• Tier 2 Clinical Research Chair: Dr. Angel Arnaout - Preoperative Cancer Therapeutics
• Junior Clinical Research Chair: Dr. Luke Lavallée - Urologic Oncology

TOHAMO COVID Innovation Awards: This year for the first time TOHAMO partnered with The Ottawa Hospital’s COVID-19 Research and Innovation team to align the central intake of COVID-19 ideas through the COVID-19 Ideas Hub.  Of a total of 37 ideas submitted by TOH physicians,the TOHAMO Board approved $1.164M in Innovation Funding for twelve research projects that could help in the fight against the virus, including 2 from DoS surgeons.

• Andrew Seely: Introducing and Evaluating Sepsis Advisor : A Clinical Decision Support Tool to Help Predict and Prevent Future Unexpected Deterioration of Patients with COVID-19
• Rebecca Auer: Prevention of Severe Respiratory and COVID-19 Infections with the Innate Immune Vaccine IMM-101 in Immunosuppressed Cancer Patients: Predicting Response with a Rapid Functional NK Cell Assay

• Collins Surgical Half Day (am) & Research Half Day (pm) have merged for 2020 - December 11, 2020 VIRTUAL - A full schedule will be available closer to the event.
  • Collins Surgical Day Oral Presentations
  • Research Personnel Session
  • Faculty Presentations
  • Wolves' Den
  • Awards and Recognition Ceremony
    • Collins Day Awards, Annual Research Awards, etc...

• Current Funding Sources: The University of the Ottawa - Research Management Services maintains a list of grants (linked to their respective organizations) and the accompanying deadlines: https://research.uottawa.ca/rms/researchers-resources/upcoming-fund-opp
• uOttawa Research Management Services (RMS) summary of the actions taken to date by the Tri-Agencies (CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC) to address the COVID-19 pandemic: sgr_rms_tri_agency_note_de_service.pdf (pdf, 74.37 KB)