Global Surgery Lab – Spring 2023 Update
Since its creation in January 2021, the Global Surgery Lab has steadily grown and built relationships, collaborations and programs to improve access to quality surgical care undersexed areas. With more than 50 members, a part-time program manager and key partners in different disciplines, our Lab now has the capacity to build innovative and sustainable platforms […]
Interview with Senator Gigi Osler
We are very pleased to have the opportunity to feature a conversation with Senator Gigi Osler and Director of the Branch for Global Surgical Care, Dr. Brian Westerberg. During the rare and exciting opportunity to spend time with the Senator, they discuss how she became involved in medicine, and subsequently global surgical care, as well […]
Publication Feature: Surgery in the western Canadian Arctic: The relative impact of family physicians with enhanced surgical skills working collaboratively with specialist surgeons
Ryan Falk (MGSC alumnus and current BGSC Faculty member) and Dawnelle Topstad recently published an article in the Canadian Journal of Rural Surgery seeking to understand the relative impact of family physicians with enhanced surgical skills (FP-ESS) and Specialist Surgeons in the surgical care of a mostly Indigenous rural and remote community in the western […]
BGSC Instructor Appreciation: Winter 2022-23 (Term 2)
We would like to recognize and express our appreciation for the significant contributions of Dr. Hossam Elsharkawi and Dr. Ross Brown! They are instructors for SURG 514 – Surgical Care in Humanitarian Disaster Response. Read their biographies here.
Publication Feature: Postoperative morbidity and mortality in pediatric indigenous populations: a scoping review and meta-analysis
Rachel J. Livergant (current GCGSC student) Dr. Shahrzad Joharifard, Dr. Emilie Joos (our very own Associate Director!), and members of the Global Surgery Lab and others recently published an article in the Pediatric Surgery International examining the surgical outcomes for Indigenous pediatric patients compared to non-Indigenous populations globally. To read the full text, please visit […]