Guest Speakers
Jean-François Boileau MD MS FRCSC
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
McGill University
Director, Jewish General Hospital
Breast Clinical Trials Group
Dr Boileau is an associate professor in the Departments of Surgery and Gerald Bronfman Oncology at McGill University. He is a surgical oncologist and director of the Breast Clinical Trials Group at the Montreal Jewish General Segal Cancer Centre and a founding member of the Quebec McPeak-Sirois Clinical Trials Consortium. He is an author on the breast neoadjuvant PALLET (Palbociclib), KRISTINE (Trastuzumab emtansine) and KEYNOTE-522 (Pembrolizumab) trials published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Lancet Oncology and in the New England Journal of Medicine.
As the Principle Investigator of the SN FNAC study (Journal of Clinica Oncology), he has contributed to establishing sentinel node biopsy as a acceptable option to re-stage the axilla of node positive breast cance patients after neoadjuvant therapy.
Ahmer Azhar Karimuddin MD FRCSC
Professor, Head, CN Woodward Chair
Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia
St. Paul's Hospital, Providence Health
Conference Chair
Shiva Jayaraman MD MESc FRCSC FACS
Associate Professor
Associate Program Director
U of T General Surgery Residency Program
President-Elect
Canadian Association of General Surgeons
HPB Surgery
St. Joseph’s Health Centre
Planning Committee
Nancy K. Down MD FRCSC FACS
Lecturer
Division of General Surgery
Medical Director of Breast ICC
Division Head of General Surgery
North York General Hospital
Marisa Louridas MD PhD FRCSC
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Colorectal Surgeon
St. Michael’s Hospital
Megan Melland-Smith MD, MSc, FRCSC
Staff General Surgeon
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Northwestern University
Peter K. Stotland HBSc MSc MD FRCSC
Assistant Professor
Assistant Program Director
General Surgery Residency Training Program
Surgical Oncology and Minimally Invasive Surgery
Quality and Knowledge Transfer Lead
Cancer Care Ontario
Regional Surgical Oncology Lead
Ontario Health – Cancer Care Ontario
Sara Temple MD FRCSC
Surgical Oncologist
Surgical Quality Lead
Department of Surgery
North York General Hospital
Speakers
Mary-Anne Aarts MD MSc FRCSC
Assistant Professor
Chief of Surgery
General, Laparoscopic, and Bariatric Surgeon
St. Joseph’s Health Centre
Daniel Abramowitz MD FRCSC
Lecturer
Colorectal Surgeon
North York General Hospital
Shady Ashamalla MD, FRCSC
Assistant Professor and Surgeon Educator Surgical Oncologist Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Jean-François Boileau MD MS FRCSC
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
McGill University
Director, Jewish General Hospital
Breast Clinical Trials Group
Marcus Burnstein MD MSc FRCSC
Associate Professor
St. Michael’s Hospital
Natalia Calo MD, FRCSC
Assistant Professor Medicine Staff Gastroenterologist and Therapeutic Endoscopist St Michael’s Hospital
Tyler R Chesney MD MSc FRCSC
Assistant Professor
Staff Surgeon
St. Michael’s Hospital
Shea Chia MD, FRCSC
Lecturer Genearl Surgeon Southlake Regional Health Centre
Tatiana Conrad MD
Lecturer Department of Radiation Oncology Radiation Oncologist Southlake Regional Health Centre
Andrea Covelli MD, PhD, FRCSC
Assistant Professor, UHN
Shelly Dev MD FRCPC
Associate Professor
Director of Education
Department of Critical Care Medicine
Sunnybrook HSC
Lead, Wellbeing and Mentorship
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine
Andrew Dueck MD MSc RPVI FACS FRCSC
Assistant Professor
Division Head
Maggisano Chair in Vascular Surgery
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Andras B. Fecso MD PhD FRCSC FACS
Assistant Professor
Minimally Invasive & Bariatric Surgery
Therapeutic & Bariatric Endoscopy
University Health Network
Benjamin Fung MD FRCSC
Lecturer
Abdominal Wall Reconstruction & Minimally Invasive Surgery
Division of General Surgery
North York General Hospital
Ralph George MD FRCSC
Associate Professor, General Surgery
General Surgeon
St. Michael’s Hospital
David Gomez MD PhD
Associate Professor
Acute Care and Trauma Surgeon
St. Michaels Hospital Unity Health
Anand Govindarajan MD MSc FRCSC
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Sinai Health System
Brittany Greene MD MSc FRCSC
Assistant Professor
Hepatobiliary Surgeon
St. Joseph's Health Centre
Paul D. Greig MD
Professor Emeritus of Surgery
University of Toronto
Dhruvin Hirpara MD MSc FRCSC
Assistant Professor
Surgical Oncologist
Mackenzie Health
Ahmer Azhar Karimuddin MD FRCSC
Professor, Head, CN Woodward Chair
Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia
St. Paul's Hospital, Providence Health
Nadia Khan MD FRCSC
Lecturer
Acute Care, MIS & Bariatric Surgeon
Division of General Surgery
Michael Garron Hospital
David W. Lim MDCM, MEd, PhD, FRCSC, FACS
Assistant Professor
Breast Surgical Oncologist
Women's College Hospital
Steven MacLellan MD FRCSC
Lecturer
Associate Program Director
MIS Fellowship
Jessica Maxwell MD MSc FRCSC FACS
Associate Professor
Breast Surgical Oncologist
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Affiliate Scientist
Sunnybrook Research Institute
Megan Melland-Smith MD MSc FRCSC
Staff General Surgeon
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Northwestern University
Jeff Mosko MD MSc FRCPC
Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology Therapeutic Endoscopy, St. Michael’s Hospital
Fahima Osman MD MPH FRCSC
Assistant Professor
Breast Surgical Oncologist
Women’s College Hospital
Colleen Parker MD MSc FRCPC
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Staff Gastroenterologist
Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
University Health Network
Joao B. Rezende Neto MD PhD FRCSC FACS
Professor
Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
St. Michael's Hospital
Associate Scientist
Keenan Research Centre
Lead for Device Development and Entrepreneurship
Fady Saleh MD MPH FRCSC
Program Director
Interim Chair of Surgery
Assistant Clinical Professor
Toronto Metropolitan University
William Osler Health System
Adena S. Scheer MD MSc FRCSC
Assistant Professor
Interim Medical Director CIBC Breast Center
Surgical Oncologist
St. Michael’s Hospital
Morgan Schellenberg MD MPH FRCSC FACS
Associate Professor
Staff Physician
Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Critical Care Medicine
St. Michael’s Hospital
Eran Shlomovitz MD FRCPC FRCSC FACS DABR
Associate Professor Surgery and Medical Imaging
University Health Network
David R. Urbach MD MSc FRCSC FACS
Professor
Surgery and Health Policy
Head, Department of Surgery
Women's College Hospital
Sherman Wong MD, MTM, FRCSC
Lecturer
Acute Care Surgeon
St. Joseph’s Health Centre
Natalya Zhang MD FRCSC
Lecturer
Acute Care Surgery Lead
North York General Hospital
*Unless otherwise noted, all academic appointments are with the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.