The Toronto Surgical Ethics Program offers surgeons of all levels a platform to understand, discuss, and manage ethical issues that arise in surgical practice. Program Directors Drs. Karen Devon, Mark Camp and Ryan Snelgrove are planning to continue in that tradition with this year’s event program in June.

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Key Information

Event Date

Friday, June 1, 2018

Location

Chestnut Conference Centre at 89 Chestnut St.

Maximum Enrolment

50 people

Goals

Improve the ability of surgeons at all levels to understand, discuss, and manage ethical issues that arise in surgical practice.

Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Understand the challenges and a framework to address innovation in surgery
• Confront and resolve conflicts encountered in dealing with organ trafficking
• Apply ethical frameworks to the problem of professionalism
• Discuss and advise on contemporary ethical issues that confront surgeons in everyday practice

Program Directors

Karen Devon MD MSc FRCSC
Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeon
Women’s College Hospital and University Health Network
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
University of Toronto

Ryan Snelgrove MD FRCSC
Colorectal Surgeon
University Hospital
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
University of Alberta

Mark Camp MD MSc FRCSC
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon
The Hospital for Sick Children
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
University of Toronto

Agenda

0830-0900	Registration and Continental Breakfast
0900-0910	Introduction
0910-0930	Organ Trafficking Jed Gross
0930-0945	Breakout Groups
0945-1025	Reports from the breakout groups, discussion and summation
1025-1045	Coffee Break
1045-1105	Innovation in Surgery Nir Lipsman
1105-1120	Breakout Groups
1120-1200	Reports from the breakout groups, discussion and summation
1200-1300	Lunch
1300-1320	Transgender Surgery Yonah Krakowski
1320-1335	Breakout Groups
1335-1415	Reports from the breakout groups, discussion and summation
1415-1435	Coffee Break
1435-1455	Ethics M and Ms Karen Devon
1455-1550	Reports from the breakout groups, discussion and summation
1550-1600	Participant course evaluations

 

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) office is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Saegis to make “Safer Opioid Prescribing, A Multimodal Program for Chronic Pain and Opioids” available to all clinicians in Canada.

Read the full press release here.

The 32nd Annual Organ Imaging Review is a practical and highly-regarded three-day radiology review program with a focus on Abdominal, Pelvic, Cardiothoracic and Musculoskeletal Imaging as well as Neuroradiology. This well-renowned program offered by the Department of Medical Imaging provides a comprehensive overview of the imaging techniques from different departments, making this a great learning opportunity for its participants.
 
Conference Chair, Dr. Alan Moody and Conference Director, Dr. Kartik Jhaveri have been planning this year’s conference and through this program, they aim to provide high-quality content for the enrichment and betterment of medical education not only for practicing and graduating radiologists but also for colleagues in other specialties.
                               
The agenda includes Management of Incidental Findings in Chest Imaging, MR Imaging of Ankle Impingment, Imaging of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Renal Mass Assessment and more. Through combination of lectures, video presentations, case-based discussions and Q&A sessions, participants are expected to receive interactive learning experience while focusing on current topics and healthcare gaps in medical imaging.
 
The content of this program was developed for radiologists, radiology residents and fellows and has also proven to be of significant interest to sonographers and medical imaging technologists.
For more information and to register, visit http://www.cpd.utoronto.ca/organimaging.

There are close to 1.2 million refugees around the world in critical need of resettlement due to conflict in their home country. The Government of Canada is working with private sponsors, non-governmental organizations and provincial, territorial, and municipal governments to assist them. As an example, more than 350 communities across the country have welcomed over 40,000 Syrian refugees since November 2015.

The number of refugees around the world will continue to rise. The recent U.S. travel and refugee ban has led to a jump in the number of people crossing to Canada, often illegally, and seeking refugee status. The growing number of refugees presents enormous challenges to medical practice.

With goals to improve the skills of health care professionals that work with refugee health, Faculty Lead of Indigenous and Refugee Health, Dr. Anna Banerji has been working on the biannual North American Refugee Health Conference (formerly Canadian Refugee Health Conference) since 2007.

The conference seeks to identify the best health practices pre- and post-migration, and provides the latest research for optimal care.

Conference topics will include Chronic Disease, LGTBQ Health, Mental Health and PTSD, and Refugee Education Development, with a special focus on Syrian Refugee Crisis.

Review the conference agenda for a complete list of speakers, workshops and presentations. The North American Refugee Health Conference will be held on June 16 – 18, 2017 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel. Register now!

Almost one in every five Canadians is suffering from chronic pain. Many try to manage with medication including opioids. However, statistics show that:

• In 2016, 914 people died in B.C. due to overdoses from illicit opioids, with another 50 to 80 deaths from prescription painkillers.
• In 2016, 343 people died in Alberta from an apparent drug overdose related to fentanyl.
• In 2014, 663 people died of opioid overdoes in Ontario, making it the third-leading cause of accidental death in the province.

It is clear that Canada, the world’s second largest consumer of prescription opioids, is facing a national opioid crisis. In response to this crisis, the government and medical institutions have been working to develop and implement strategies and guidelines for prescribing opioids. For example, the Government of Ontario implemented its first comprehensive Opioid strategy in October 2016 to prevent opioid addiction and overdose by enhancing data collection, modernizing prescribing and dispensing practices, and connecting patients with high quality addiction treatment services and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. introduced the first mandatory standards in Canada for prescribing opioids in June 2016.

To support these guidelines, physicians and healthcare professionals need to understand how best to serve these patients. In response to the high demand from healthcare professionals for better education on prescribing opioids Drs. Abhimanyu Sud and Kate Hodgson have created the Safe Opioid Prescribing series at CPD.

The program goal is to retrain physicians about pain management, and to ultimately change how healthcare professionals conduct their practice.

The program series consists of three live webinars followed by a full-day workshop. The webinars focus on assessing complex chronic pain, prescribing opioids in chronic pain, and addressing opioid challenges and addiction. Upon completion, participants will take part in role-play exercises in the one-day in-person Skill Development workshop.

The next Safe Opioid Prescribing webinar series will be held on June 21st, 2017. Physicians, family doctors, nurse practitioners, and addiction workers are encouraged to attend. For more information and to register visit http://www.cpd.utoronto.ca/opioidprescribing/.

The Banting & Best Diabetes Centre (BBDC) Diabetes Update conference has been providing healthcare professionals information on the latest treatments for Diabetes over the past decades. The BBDC Diabetes Update 2017 conference will be held on April 21st at the Hilton Toronto Hotel.

Conference Chair Dr. Rene Wong, lead for professional development at the BBDC, is interested in researching “the importance of partnerships and collaboration towards improving care for people living with diabetes.”

The main focus of this year’s conference is to gather the community in diabetes education and management to improve patient care by creating a “person-centred” approach. Over 50% of the meeting time will be allocated to case studies and interactive learning.

This year’s session topics will include:

• Real-life implementation of team-based care.
• Tailored treatments for patients with heart disease, disordered eating, socioeconomic, and elderly patients.
• Person-centre care through interdisciplinary approaches.

Educators and healthcare professionals in diabetes, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dieticians, and endocrinologists, are encouraged to attend the conference. For more information and to register, visit http://bbdcdiabetesupdate.ca/.