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- Wednesday, October 19 | 6:00 PM
- Presentation on breast reconstruction: BRA Day 2011
- Lecturers :
Drs. Sheina Macadam Nancy Van Laeken and Peter Lennox
will be giving an informal presentation on breast reconstruction
at the Paetzhold Auditorium at VGH - October 19 marks the inaugural Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day (BRA Day)
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- The concept of BRA day is to increase awareness of the options for breast reconstruction for women facing mastectomies due to breast cancer.
- There are events scheduled all across the country at various centres.
- The presentation is free and is open to staff and public.
- No registration required.
- More information about BRA day can be found at: www.bra-day.com
posted: 2011-October-13
"Kudos and Congratulations" recognizes achievements by faculty and trainees in the Department of Surgery. Please send items to be included to alice.mui@ubc.ca
Kudos and Congratulations 34. - Doctor, Doctor
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Congratulations to:
(supervisor, Dr. Aziz Ghahary, Plastic Surgery)has successfully defended her PhD thesis. Claudia is originally from Toronto and graduated from medical school at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She trained two years in Plastic Surgery until she moved to Vancouver BC, due to her husband (Omar) being accepted at UBC for his PhD in Mechanical Engineering. Claudia worked on her PhD under Dr. Ghahary's supervision in the Burn and Wound Healing Research and during her studies had received many prestigious awards from institutions such as CIHR, MSFHR, UBC and VCHRI. During these 5 years she was able to publish or submit 11 papers as first author or co-author. Her passion for burn patients and the field of wound healing has taken her to pursue a Post-Doc Fellowship, at Northwestern University, Chicago IL under Dr. Thomas Mustoe, in the field of wound healing and burns, starting this September.
posted : 2011-August-17
Kudos and Congratulations 33. - a Young Scholar
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Congratulations to:
(supervisor, Dr. Chris Ong, General Surgery; co-supervisor - Dr. Aziz Ghahary, Plastic Surgery) has successfully defended her PhD thesis. Darya has been studying the mechanism(s) of selective immunosuppressive effects of indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase (IDO) and borrelidin. The findings of her Ph.D. studies pave the way towards application of IDO as an immunosuppressive factor in development of long-lasting non-rejectable allografts. Her findings also reveal the potential application of borrelidin in treating acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Darya has been awarded various prestigious awards and scholarships, including VCHRI Rising Star Award, Roman M. Babicki Fellowship in Medical Research, University of British Columbia Graduate Fellowship, CIHR/MSFHR Transplantation Scholarship, and CIHR/Skin Research Training Centre Scholarship. She has published three first-author papers during her Ph.D. studies and has had multiple oral and poster presentations in local and international conferences.
posted : 2011-August-17
Congratulations to:
(Plastic Surgery) has been awarded the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Research Grant to study the Use of Botulinum Toxin-A in Two-stage Tissue Expander/Implant Reconstruction. The research team includes Dr. Peter Lennox, Dr. Nancy Van Laeken, and Dr. Sheina Macadam.
posted : 2011-July-14
Congratulations to:
with Dr.Aziz Ghahary(Plastic Surgery)
and is now a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Garth Warnock (General Surgery),
has received a JDRF post doctoral fellowship.
This is a highly prestigious and very competitive international award designed to assist highly promising scientists in transitioning from a fellowship to an independent position. Dr. Jalili has developed a novel matrix in which to embed pancreatic islet cells prior to transplantation that both provides a immunoprotective microenvironment and prevents beta cell death. This will improve islet graft survival and obviate the need for systemic immunosuppressive drugs.
posted : 2011-February-14
Congratulations to:
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Dr. Sheina Macadam (Plastic Surgery) who just won a one year $115,095 grant from the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation for
her project - "Quality of Life and Patient Reported Outcomes of Reconstruction in Breast Cancer Survivors".
Synopsis:
The objective of this study is to compare patient-perceived abdominal symptoms and quality of life in women that have undergone different types of abdominally-based breast reconstruction. This will be conducted using a survey of 1500 women that have undergone reconstruction using 5 different techniques (DIEP, p-TRAM, f-TRAM, ms-fTRAM, and SIEA).
The primary outcome will be self-reported abdominal wall symptoms as measured by the BREAST-Q, a sensitive and validated measure of patient-reported quality of life following breast reconstruction. The investigation is a multi-center design. The Plastic Surgery Division at UBC will collaborate with MSKCC, UCLA, NYU, University of Toronto, and the University of Michigan. The results will help to advance surgical techniques, facilitate evidence-based practice and improve the process of shared medical decision-making for breast-cancer survivors and surgeons. Most importantly, patient education with regards to quality of life following these types of breast reconstruction will be enhanced.
posted : in NEWS page & archived here: 2010-November-9
Congratulations to:
Dr. Aziz Ghahary (Plastic Surgery) and his group , for their manuscript published in the journal Diabetes,
the most highly ranked journal in the field of diabetes research.
Dr. Ghahary's group showed that co-implantation of fibroblast engineered to express the tryptophan degrading enzyme
IDO with pancreatic islets grafts resulted in long term graft acceptance without additional immune suppression.
Why would IDO expression induce immune acceptance? Please come to
Chung Research Day (Oct 22) and hear
Dr. Reza Jalili (the first author) explain.
Local expression of indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase in syngeneic fibroblasts significantly prolongs survival of an engineered three-dimensional .
Jalili RB, Forouzandeh F, Rezakhanlou AM, Hartwell R, Medina A, Warnock GL, Larijani B, Ghahary A. Diabetes. 2010 Sep;59(9):2219-27
A commentary on the work appears at Diabetes. 2010 Sep;59(9):2102-4.
posted: 2010-September-27
Congratulations to:
Dr. Aziz Ghahary (Plastic Surgery, Director, BC Firefighter's Burn and Wound Healing Lab) who received a CIHR/NSERC Collaborative Health Research Project grant entitled "Development and application of nanofibres releasing anti-fibrogenic factos for treating dermal fibrosis". Dr. Ghahary will be working with Dr. Frank Ko (UBC Microsystems and Nanotechnology Group) to produce sutures, stents and wound dressing which prevent fibrosis from occurring.
first posted : in NEWS page 2010-July-12, archived here: August-26
- 2010 CSPS Lifetime Achievement Award :
was given to Dr. Charles Snelling - on June 18, 2010
This award honours members of the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons who have made an outstanding contribution to the profession and to the Society.
- Dr. Aziz Ghahary's Lab Team presents
at the American Burn Association 2010 meeting! B.C. Professional Fire Fighters Burn and Wound Healing Research Group
Shown in photo : Supervisor- Dr. Aziz Ghahary, Abdi Ghaffari, Dr. Claudia Chavez
Dr. Elham Rahmani, Darya Habibi, Dr. Reza B. Jalili, Dr. Farshad Forouzandeh
Dr. Abelardo Medina, Dr. Ruhangiz Kilani, Dr. Yuayan Li
New Members whose photos are not here :
Dr. Alireza Moeen, Amy Lai, Azadeh Tabatabai, Ryan, Hartwell, Amir Akbari- The B.C. Professional Fire Fighters Burn and Wound Healing Lab in the Division of Plastic Surgery had a remarkable showing at the recent 42nd Annual American Burn Association meeting
in Boston, March 8-12th, 2010. For the first time ever in the Division's history and, quite likely for the first time in the history of any research group, had a total of 7 podium presentations in burn and wound healing research.
Congratulations to
Dr. Aziz Ghahary and his team involved in this work,
Dr. A. Ghaffari, Dr. C. Chavez-Munoz,
Dr. E. Rahmani, and Masters students R. Hartwell and D. Habibi
and Undergraduate student Matthew Carr - View in larger size
the photo & the names of Lab Members
posted: 2010-April-16, last revised: June-23
- Best Resident Paper Award :
"Management of the exposed, infected cranioplasty with free tissue transfer and custom alloplastic implants"
by Farrah Yau, MD and Scott Williamson MD, FRSCS
- at the Annual Northwest Society of Plastic Surgeons Meeting, Hawaii
February 20-24, 2010
posted: 2010-April-16