Member Departments

Representatives from various stakeholder groups are appointed to the Branch’s Advisory Committee from a wide variety of surgical care specialties, representing the interdisciplinary nature of surgical care.

Surgery

Student Research

  • Towards Comprehensive Injury Surveillance in Africa: the Cape Town Trauma Registry. Vanessa Fawcett.
  • Identifying Barriers to the Effective Treatment of Chronic Middle Ear. Paul Mick.
  • Identifying the Barriers to the Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Oral Cancer in Uganda. Danielle MacNeil.
  • The Status of Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: a Systematic Review of the Literature and the Development of Future Strategies for Surveillance. Zaheer Kanji.
  • Coaching Surgical Trainees in Africa: a feasibility study using video replay to maximize short-term training opportunities. Monica Langer.
  • Prevalence and Risk Factors of Fungal Colonization and Infection in Burn. Gareth Eeson.
  • Mental Practice in Surgical education: A Pilot Study using an Otologic Surgery Model in Uganda. Anali Dadgostar.
  • An Evaluation of Surgical Care in the North Gondar Zone of Ethiopia: Documenting Delivery, Evaluating Essential Surgical Skills Courses as Training Tools, and Identifying Barriers to Surgical Care. Dan Jenkin.
  • Distribution and determinants of injury in Cape Town, South Africa: A prospective cohort study using an injury surveillance tool. Eiman Zargaran.
  • Endemic Thyroid Goiters in the Rural Philippines: Prognostic Indicators for Improvement in Health-Related Quality of Life Post-Thyroidectomy. Kristelle Chueng.
  • Validity Testing a Lo-Fidelity Simulator for Ear Surgery in a Low-Resource Setting. Kimberly Luu.
  • Development of a centre-specific head and neck microvascular surgery clinical care pathway in Mongolia. Oleksandr Buts

Advisory Committee Members

  • Geoffrey Blair
  • Ross Brown
  • Sam Bugis
  • Kevin Bush
  • David Fairholm
  • Faizal Haji
  • Emilie Joos
  • Shahrzard Joharifard
  • Dan Poenaru
  • Karim Qayumi
  • Andrea MacNeill
  • Robert Taylor
  • Brian Westerberg

Projects and Partners

  • Hartley Bay Hearing Impairment Initiative
  • Hearing Foundation of Canada – SoundSense
  • Office of Pediatric Surgical Evaluation and Innovation (OPSEI)
  • Reconstructing Women International

Orthopaedics

Projects and Partners

  • Ethiopia Spine Deformity Program
  • Uganda Sustainable Trauma Orthopaedic Program (USTOP)

Student Research

  • Medical devices for diagnosis and management of orthopaedic trauma: a needs assessment study of orthopaedic services in Uganda. Lise Leveille.
  • Clinical outcomes for open tibial shaft fractures: A prospective randomized trial comparing external fixation to unreamed intramedullary nailing in Uganda. David Stockton.

Faculty / Advisory Committee

  • Peter O’Brien
  • Norgrove Penny

Obstetrics/Gynecology

Student Research

  • The ASPIRE Project: Advances in Screening and Prevention in Reproductive Cancers. Flora Teng.
  • Determining an optimal cervical cancer screening paradigm in a low-resource setting: A community-based randomized controlled trial comparing self-collected HPV testing with visual inspection and acetic acid (VIA) screening in Kampala, Uganda. Sheona Mitchell.

Faculty / Advisory Committee

  • Ruth Vilayil

Radiology

Faculty / Advisory Committee

  • Pete Tonseth
  • Tanya Martin

Ophthalmology

Projects and Partners

  • Eyesight International

Student Research

  • Corneal Transplantation in India: Indications, Outcomes, and Impact on Eye Banking. Sonia Yeung.

Faculty / Advisory Committee

  • Simon Holland

Anaesthesia

Projects and Partners

  • Office of Pediatric Surgical Evaluation and Innovation (OPSEI)

Student Research

  • Development and Evaluation of a Wireless Pulse Oximeter on a Cell Phone (iPleth) for Safe Perioperative Care in Uganda. Jacqueline Hudson.
  • A Mobile Diagnostic and Advisory Device for Management of Children with Sepsis in Developing Countries. Sean McLean.

Faculty / Advisory Committee

  • Tim Sveinbjornson

Urology

Projects and Partners

  • Ethiopia Urology Program

Faculty / Advisory Committee

  • Mark Nigro

Nursing

Projects and Partners

  • Operating Room Nurses Association of Canada (ORNAC)

Faculty / Advisory Committee

  • Rupinder Khotar

 
 

In addition we seek representation from the following:

Indigenous Community

  • Donna May Kimmaliardjuk

Planetary Health Representative

  • Andrea MacNeill

Low- or Middle-Income Country

  • Phyllis Kisa

Rural Surgical Care Provider

  • Ryan Falk

Student/Trainee Representative

  • Celine Hounjet