Visiting Lecturers

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• Department of Surgery Grand Rounds | May - 9
• Enteral Nutrition in the Surgical Patient
• Rosemary Kozar, MD, PhD
• James H."Red"Duke, Jr. Professor of Surgery
  -Chief of Trauma, Memorial Herman Hospital, Houston, Texas
• University of Texas School of Medicine, USA

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Past Lectures

Choose Lectures: 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004

Past Lectures: Year 2012

• Clarisse L. Dolman Memorial Lecture
• Division of Neurosurgery | May - 2
• Viral Encephalitis of the Future
• Clayton A. Wiley, MD PhD
• Professor, Department of Pathology - Director of Neuropathology
• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania, USA

• Division of General Surgery | May - 2
• Management of Arterial Complications after Liver Transplantation
• Wael E. Saad, MD, FSIR
• Professor of Radiology & Imaging Sciences - VIR Fellowship Program Director
• University of Virginia Health System- Charlottesville, VA, USA

• Division of Neurosurgery | April - 18
• Friedrich's Ataxia
• Dr Massimo Pandolfo
• Professor of Neurology, Director of the Neurology Service
• Erasme Hospital, and of the Laboratory of Experimental Neurologys
• Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium

• Division of Neurosurgery | April - 4
• Vein of Galen Malformation : From embryo to adulthood :
  Medical problems and therapeutical approaches
• Dr. Michel Zerah
• Service de Neurochirurgie Pédiatrique
• Groupe Hospitalier Necker Enfants Malades
• Université Paris V. René DESCARTES

• Department of Surgery Grand Rounds | March - 28
• Carotid Endarterectomy in 2012: Current Consensus, Controversies and Personal Perspectives after 1100 procedures
• Randy Guzman, MD, FRCSC, FACS, RVT
• Professor and Head, Section of Vascular Surgery
• The University of Manitoba

• Division of Neurosurgery | March - 14
• Tampering with the Record:
  Memory Erasure and other Interventions
• Dr. John Harris
• Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics and Director
• Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation
• University of Manchester

• Division of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery | March - 14
• The Epidemiology of JoRRP in Canada:
  Past, Present, and Future of a National Registry
• Paolo Campisi MSc, MD, FRCSC, FAAP
• Department of Otolaryngology
• University of Toronto

• Division of Neurosurgery | March - 2
• The 35^th annual B.C. Neuroscience Day
• Ivar Mendez MD, PhD, FRSC, FACS
• Peter D Moyes 2012 Lecturer
• Chairman, Brain Repair Centre Professor of Neurosurgery and Anatomy
• and Neurobiology President Canadian Neuromodulation Society
• Dalhousie University and Queen Elizabeth II Health Science Centre

  Poster- with details

• Division of Neurosurgery | February - 29
• Cell Therapy in Parkinson's Disease:
  Methodological Considerations for Brain Repair
• Ivar Mendez MD, PhD, FRSC, FACS
• Chairman, Brain Repair Centre Professor of Neurosurgery and Anatomy
• and Neurobiology President Canadian Neuromodulation Society
• Dalhousie University and Queen Elizabeth II Health Science Centre

• Department of Surgery Grand Rounds | February - 29
• Robotics, Remote Presence and Brain Repair: Technologies of the Future
• Ivar Mendez, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS
• Professor, Department of Surgery and Chairman, Brain Repair Centre
• Dalhousie University

• Division of Neurosurgery | February - 8
• Advances in MRI for Focal Cortical Dysplasia
• Dewi Schrader, MBBS, MHSc., FRCPC(C)
• Post-doctoral Fellow
• Neuroimaging of Epilepsy Lab. McConnell Brain Imaging Center
• Montreal Neurological Institute

• Division of Neurosurgery | January - 11
• When to Refer for an Epilepsy Surgical Evaluation
• Chantelle Hrazdil, MD, FRCPC
• Epilepsy Fellow
• Calgary Comprehensive Epilepsy Program

Past Lectures: Year 2011

• Division of General Surgery | December - 7
• Advances in Surgical Intervention and Treatment Plans
  for mCRC Patients with Liver Limited Disease
• Dr Michael Choti, MD, MBA
• Hepatobiliary Surgeon
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

• Division of Neurosurgery | December - 7
• Brain injury in the premature infant.
  Have we been thinking about this all wrong?
• Stephen A. Back, MD, PhD
• Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
• Oregon Health & Science University

• Division of Thoracic Surgery | December - 6
• Innovations in the Surgical Management of Lung Cancer
• Dr. Shaf Keshavjee
• Surgeon in Chief University Health Network, Professor of Thoracic Surgery
• The University of Toronto

• Centre for Surgical Research | December - 5
• Transplantation Research Day Presentations
• Keynote Speakers: Drs. - Shaf Keshavjee, Lainie Ross, Timothy Kieffer
•   Schedule of the Day

• Division of Neurosurgery | November - 30
• Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome:
  More Common and Less Benign Than We Thought
• Dr. David Dodick, MD, FRCPC
• Director, Headache Program, Department of Neurology
• Mayo Clinic, Arizona

• Division of General Surgery | November - 30
• Engineers in Scrubs -
  New Opportunities for Co-Developing Medical Technologies
• Dr. Anthony Hodgson
• Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Director of Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering
• The University of British Columbia

• Division of Neurosurgery | November - 23
• First Seizure Clinic: The why - conceptual and clinical relevance
• Bernhard Pohlmann-Eden, MD, PhD
• Professor of Neurology & Pharmacology
• Dalhousie University Halifax

• Division of General Surgery | November - 16
• Moving Beyond Mortality as a Measure of
  the Quality of Trauma Care and System Performance
• Dr. Belinda Gabbe
• Head, Emergency and Trauma Research Unit
  Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
• Monash University, Melbourne

• Division of Neurosurgery | November - 16
• The Role of Cellular Prion Protein in Alzheimer's Disease Pathophysiology
• Dr. Haakon B. Nygaard, MD, PhD
• Assistant Professor of Neurology
• Yale University

• Department of Surgery | November - 7
• The 17^th. Annual Chung Research Day
• Teaching Billy how to operate: can we do better?
• Dr. Gerald Fried
• Professor of Surgery and Gastroenterology
• Chair of the Department of Surgery
• McGill University

• Division of Neurosurgery | November - 2
• 4^thAnnual Neurosurgery Research Day
• What neurosurgeons can learn from talking with patients: a qualitative journey
• Dr. Mark Bernstein
• The Greg Wilkins-Barrick Chair in International Surgery
• Professor of Surgery
• The University of Toronto

• Department of Surgery Grand Rounds | October - 26
• Competency Based Education in the Surgical Environment
• Dr. Ken Harris
• Director of Education
• The Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada

• Division of Neurosurgery | October - 19
• Dopamine and Addiction: Lessons from Parkinson's Disease
• Alain Dagher, MD, FRCPC
• Associate Professor
• Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Faculty of Medicine, McGill University

• Division of General Surgery | October - 19
• Slowing Down When You Should: A Key to Expert Surgical Judgment
• Dr. Carol-Anne Moulton, MBBC, FRACS, Med, PhD, HPB
• Surgeon
• Toronto General Hospital

• Division of Neurosurgery | October - 12
• Endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke
• Michael D. Hill, MD, MSc, FRCPC
• Calgary Stroke Program
• Clinical Neurosciences, Hotchkiss Brain Institute
• The University of Calgary

• Division of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery| September - 28
• New interventional radiologic care solutions in the head and neck
• Dr. William E. Shiels
• Professor and Head, Department of Radiology
• Nationwide Children's Hospital - Columbus, Ohio

• Division of Neurosurgery | September - 21
• "Voodoo" Death: The Modern Lessons of Neurocardiology
• Martin A. Samuels, MD, DSc(hon), FAAN, MACP, FRCP
• Naveen Deshpande Neurology Lecturer- Professor of Neurology
• Harvard Medical School

• Division of Neurosurgery | September - 14
• Minnesota: Autoimmune encephalopathies and Mimics of Glial Tumours
• Vanda Lennon, MD, PhD
• Professor of Immunology and Neurology
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

• Division of General Surgery | June - 8
• Strengthening Care for the Injured Globally


• Charles Mock, MD, PhD, FACS
• Professor of Surgery
• Regional Medical Director- Trauma
• Joint appointment, Professor of Epidemiology Adjunct Professor, Global Health
• The University of Washington
• Dr. Mock's   Short [1 page] biography

• Division of Neurosurgery | May - 25
• Molecular Diagnostics of Gliomas
• Arie Perry, MD
• Professor of Pathology and Neurological Surgery
• Director of Neuropathology and Vice Chair of Pathology
• The University of California, San Francisco (USCF)

• Division of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery | May - 18
• How to tell the difference between Meniere's disease and migraine vertigo


• Dr. Lars Ödkvist
• Professor of Surgery
• The University of Linköping, Sweden

• Division of Neurosurgery | May - 18
• Perfusion Imaging Predicts Outcome in TIA and Stroke
• Negar Asdaghi, MD, FRCPC
• Cerebrovascular Fellowship, CIHR
• Calgary Stroke Program
• The University of Calgary

• Division of General Surgery | April-27
• The LIFT Procedure for Fistula-in-ano: The Minnesota Experience


• Dr. Patrick Tawadros BSC, MD, PHD, FRCS(C)
• Fellow- the University of Minnesota
• Dr Tawadros'   Short Bio.

• Division of Neurosurgery | April-6
• "Every Child on a Protocol"
  An attempt at coordinated clinical research in pediatric hydrocephalus
• John R.W. Kestle, MD, MSc
• Chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery
• Professor of Neurosurgery
• The University of Utah, Salt Lake City

• Division of Neurosurgery | March-16
• Alzheimer's Disease Update and Clinical Relevance
  of Novel Genes Involved in Memory
  
• Dr. Remi Quirion, OC, PhD, FRSC, CQ
• Professor, Psychiatry- Scientific Director, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
• Vice-Dean, Life Sciences and Strategic Initiatives
• Faculty of Medicine, McGill University

• Combined Department of Surgery Grand Rounds: | March-16
• Improving Surgical Quality: Bench to Bedside
  
• Dr. Clifford Ko
• Professor, Director, American College of Surgeons
• National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP)

• Division of Neurosurgery | March-9
• Neuro Grand Rounds Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Mitochondrial Disease - Making Progress in the Clinic
  
• Aneal Khan, MSc, MD, FRCPC, FCCMG
• Assistant Professor of Medical Genetics and Pediatrics
• University of Calgary Metabolic Clinic Alberta Children's Hospital

• Division of Neurosurgery | March-2
• The Role of Radiosurgery in the Management of the Benign and Malignant Brain Tumors
  
• Michael W. McDermott, MD
• Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery
• University of California, San Francisco

• Division of Neurosurgery | February-23
• Perinatal stroke: A human model of developmental neuroplasticity
  
• Adam Kirton MD MSc FRCPC
• Director, Calgary Pediatric Stroke Program
• Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Clinical Neuroscience
• Pediatric Neurologist, Alberta Children's Hospital
• Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary

• Division of Neurosurgery | February 16
• Emerging neurological infections: it's anybody's guess what's next
  
• Christopher Power , MD, FRCPC
• Canada Research Chair in Neurologic Infection and Immunity
• Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Senior Scholar
• Professor, Departments of Medicine (Neurology), Medical Microbiology & Immunology, and Psychiatry
• The University of Alberta

• Division of Neurosurgery | February 2
• Evaluation and treatment of auto-immune and inflammatory neuropathies
  
• Norman Latov, MD, PhD
• Professor of Neurology and Neurosciences
• Director of the Peripheral Neuropathy Clinical and Research Center
• The Cornell University, New York, NY

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Past Lectures: Year 2010

• Division of General Surgery | December 9
• THE 14^TH ANNUAL TRANSPLANTATION RESEARCH DAY


• View   Program- schedule of the Day

• Division of Neurosurgery | December 8
• The Development of Canadian Guidelines for
  the Assessment and Treatment of Parkinson's Disease
  
• David A. Grimes, MD, FRCPC
• Associate Professor Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
• The University of Ottawa Ontario

• Division of Neurosurgery | November 24
• Managing nerve tumors: pearls and pitfalls
  
• Rajiv Midha, MD, MSc, FRCSC
• Professor & Head, Neurology
• The University of Calgary, Alberta

• Division of Neurosurgery | November 24
• Managing nerve tumors: pearls and pitfalls
  
• Rajiv Midha, MD, MSc, FRCSC
• Professor & Head, Neurology
• The University of Calgary, Alberta

• Division of General Surgery | November 17
• An update on cytoreductive surgery and heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy for GI peritoneal malignancy
• Dr. Lloyd Mack, MD, MSc, FRCSC
• Surgeon / Surgical Oncologist, The University of Calgary

• Division of General Surgery | November 10
• Prevention of Recurrence of Crohn's Disease in patients post resection
• Mark Molenda, R. Ph. Leader, J&J GIIST
• Research Scientist, Proof of Concept Studies and Gastroenterology
• Centocor Ortho-Biotech

• Division of General Surgery | November 3
• Advances in Interventional Endoscopy: Where are we heading?
• Dr. Michael Byrne
• Clinical Associate Professor
• Division of Gastroenterology, University of British Columbia and VGH

     Dr. Byrne's short CV [1page]

• Department of Surgery | October 22
• 16th Annual W.B. & M.H. Chung Research Day
  
• Dr. Yvan Douville
• Visting lecturer from Laval University
• See the   Program of the Day

• Division of General Surgery | October 20
• Non-surgical issues in Hepatocellular cancer
  
• Eric M. Yoshida MD, MHSc, FRCP(C), FACP, FACG
• Professor of Medicine
• Head, Division of Gastroenterology, University of British Columbia and VGH

• Division of Neurosurgery | October 13
• Evidence-Based Update:
  Non-accidental Injury (Child Abuse) and the Mimics
  
• Patrick D. Barnes, MD
• Chief, Section of Pediatric Neuroradiology
• Co-Director, Pediatric MRI & CT, Center Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
• Professor of Radiology, Stanford University Medical Center

• Division of Neurosurgery | October 6
• 1^st. Annual Naveen Deshpande Neurology Lecture
• Stroke: Past, Present and Future
  
• Louis Caplan, MD
• Professor, Neurology
• Harvard Medical School, Boston

• Division of Neurosurgery | September 15
• A Common Genetic Varient Near PER1 Associated with Human Circadian Phase
• Andrew Lim, MD, FRCPC
• Fellow, Department of Neurology
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Harvard Medical School, Boston

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• Division of General Surgery | June 9
• Trauma Care in Kandahar's Mirwais Hospital
• Dr. Mohammad Azim Zahid
• (Maxillofacial)
• Dr. Dawod Farhad
• (General/Trauma Surgeon)
• Kandahar, Afghanistan

• Department of Surgery Grand Rounds | May 26
• Plastic Surgery and Its Place in Multidisciplinary Care
• Dr. Peter Neligan
• Professor of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery
• Director, UW Medicine Center for Reconstructive Surgery
• University of Washington, Seattle, WA

• Division of Neurosurgery | May 5
• Neuropathology of Familial Parkinsonism
• Dr. Dannis W. Dickson, MD
• Robert E. Jacoby Professor of Alzheimer's Research
• Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida

• Division of General Surgery | April 21
• Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
• Dr. Peter TW Kim, MD, MSc, FRCSC
• Program Director
• Fellow, Abdominal Transplant Surgery
• Baylor Regional Transplant Institute- Dallas, Texas

• Division of Neurosurgery | April 7
• What We Know and What We Don't Know About Concussions
• Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD, FRCPC
• Program Director
• Neurosurgery / Paediatric Neurosurgery
• Children's Hospital, Dartmouth
• Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Centre

• Department of Surgery- Grand Round | March 24
• Current Status and Future Direction of Aortic Endovascular Interventions
• Dr. Cherrie Z. Abraham
• Division of Vascular Surgery
• Jewish General Hospital, Department of Surgery
• McGill University, Quebec

• Division of Neurosurgery | March 17
• Understanding spinal cord injury pathophysiology and the rational for our current treatments
• John Hurlbert, MD, PhD, FRCSC
• Peter D Moyes 2010 Lecturer
• Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Surgery
• The University of Calgary

• Division of Neurosurgery | January 6
• Studying the epileptic network in temporal lobe epilepsy
• Donald Gross, M.D.
• Assistant Professor Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
• Director of the Pediatric Neuro-oncology Program<
• The University of Alberta

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Past Lectures: Year 2009

• Division of Neurosurgery | November 25
• Management Paradigms for the Treatment of Skull Base Malignancy
• Dr. Franco DeMonte
• Professor and Vice Chair, Dept of Neurosurgery
• The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

• Division of Neurosurgery | October 28
• The Diagnosis & Management of Friedreich's Ataxia
• Susan Perlman, M.D.
• Clinical Professor of Neurology
• David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

• Division of Neurosurgery | October 21
• Intracranial EEG in the Investigation of Epilepsy
• Dr. Jeffrey A. Hall
• Neurosurgeon (Epilepsy, Central Pain, Psychiatric Disorders)
• Assistant Professor, McGill University

• Division of Neurosurgery | October 7
• Surgical Management of Epilepsy and Focal Cortical Dysplasia
  in Language-Dominant Temporal and Parietal Cortex
• Adam Olding Hebb, MD, FRCSC
• Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
• University of Washington, Seattle

• Department of Surgery- Grand Round | October 7
• Thromboprophylaxis as a Key Patient Safety Priority: Current Approaches and Future Directions
• Dr. William Geerts
• Thromboembolism Service, Professor of Medicine
• University of Toronto

• Division of Neurosurgery | September 30
• Brain Networks in PD: Natural History and Treatment Effects
• David Eidelberg, M.D.
• Susan and Leonard Feinstein Professor of Neurology
• New York University School of Medicine
• Director, Center for Neuroscience
• Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Manhasset, NY

• Division of Neurosurgery | September 23
• Alcohol and Toxin Induced Seizures
• Michelle J. Shapiro, B.A. (Honours), M.D., F.R.C.P.C.
• Epilepsy Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Harvard University

• Division of Neurosurgery | June 3
• Multiple Sclerosis Genetics and the Power of Collaboration
• Dr. Adrian J. Ivinson
• Director, Harvard Neurodiscovery Center
• Harvard Medical School, Boston

• Division of General Surgery| May 13
• Neuroendocrine Tumors: Update on Management Strategies
  
• Dr. Rudolf Arnold, M.D.
• Department of Internal Medicine, Philipps University
• Marburg, Germany

• Division of Otolaryngology | May 6
• VEMPs (Vestibular evoke myogenic potential)
  
• Division of Neurosurgery | May 6
• Impulsive testing of vestibular function and its measurement
  
• Professor Michael Halmagyi
• Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
• Camperdown NSW Sydney, Australia

• Division of Otolaryngology | April 28
• Long-term outcomes in head and neck cancer patients
  
• Dr. Gerry Funk, Director
• Director, Head and Neck Oncology
• University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

• Division of Neurosurgery | April 22
• Insight into the workings of the frontal lobes
• Dr. Donald T. Stuss
• Director (Interim) Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit Baycrest, Toronto
• Professor, Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science
• Faculty of Medicine, The University of Toronto

• Division of Vascular Surgery | April 3
• MMPs as a target for treating aortic aneurysms
• Timothy Baxter, MD
• the 2009 Heart & Stroke Foundation of B.C. & Yukon Speaker
• University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, Nebraska

• Division of Neurosurgery | March 25
• Chronic immune demyelinating polyneuropathies - Diagnosis and treatment
• Dr. Alan Pestronk
• Professor, Department of Neurology and Pathology, Director of Neuromuscular Division
• Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO

• Division of Neurosurgery | March 18
• The Plasticity of Neuroplasticity
• Bruce E. Wexler, MD
• Professor of Psychiatry
• Yale University

• Division of General Surgery | March 11
• Use of Biologics in General and Colorectal Surgery?
• Dr. Neal Ellis
• Program Director, Department of Surgery
• University of Alabama

• Division of Neurosurgery | March 4
• CSF diversion with shunts in pediatric hydrocephalus
  - Why have we failed?
• James Drake, M.D- Peter D Moyes 2009 Lecturer
• Professor, University of Toronto
• Head, Division of Neurosurgery Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto

• Division of General Surgery | February 18
• Radiologic Treatment of Complications of Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgery
• Dr. Hyun-Ki Yoon, MD
• Professor of Radiology
• Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea

• Division of Neurosurgery | January 28
• Migraine Pathophysiology and Future Targets for Drug Development
• Peter Goadsby, MD, PhD, DSc, FRACP, FRCP
• Professor of Neurology
• University of California, San Francisco, CA

• Division of General Surgery | January 21
• The Logic for Biologics in Challenging Hernia Repair
• John R. Harper, Ph.D.
• LifeCell Corporation
•   Dr. Harper's CV
• Branchburg, NJ

• Division of Vascular Surgery | January 21
• The Future of Endografting in Canada and the World
• Dr. Cherrie Abraham
• Vascular Surgery
• Mc Gill University, QE

• Division of Neurosurgery | January 14
• Selective motor control and focal hand dystonia
• Dr. Mark Hallett
• Head of Motor Control Section, Medical Neurology Branch, NINDS
• Bethesda, MD

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Past Lectures: Year 2008

• Division of General Surgery | December 3
• From Animal models to the clinic Tolerance:
• Dr. Megan Sykes
• Harold and Ellen Danser Professor of Surgery and Professor of Medicine (Immunology)
• Harvard Medical School

• Division of Neurosurgery | December 3
• What's hot in epilepsy genetics
  
• Professor Ingrid Scheffer, MBBS, PhD, FRACP
• Director of Pediatrics, Austin Health, Professor of Pediatric Neurology Research
• Royal Children's Hospital
• The University of Melbourne, Australia

• Division of Otolaryngology | December 3
• Dysphagia and Chronic Aspiration
  
• Dr. Maya Sardesai, Laryngology fellow
• The University of Washington

• Division of General Surgery | November 19
• Fungal Infections in Hospitalized Patients
• Dr. Coleman Rotstein
• Professor of Medicine
• Division of Infectious Diseases
• The University of Toronto

• Division of Otolaryngology | November 19
• Contemporary Management of Inverted Papilloma
• Dr. Erin Wright
• Director of the Alberta Sinus Centre
• Associate Professor
• The University of Alberta

• Division of Neurosurgery | November 12
• Endovascular management of difficult, large, giant and wide-necked aneurysms: conventional approaches, and impact of new techniques and devices
• Jacques E. Dion, MD, FRCPC
• Professor of Radiology and Neurosurgery
• Director of Neurointerventional Surgery
• Emory University Hospital Atlanta, GA

• Division of General Surgery | October 29
• Trauma Coagulopathy and Blood Replacement: What is New?
• Dr. Raul Coimbra
• Professor of Surgery
• Chief, Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care & Burns
• University of California San Diego

• Division of Neurosurgery | October 29
• Brainstem glioma in children: A challenge for translational medicine
• Nalin Gupta, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS, FAAP
• Associate Professor
• Department of Neurological Surgery
• School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco (USCF)

• Department of Surgery- Grand Round | October 22
• Awakening the Auditory System: Cochlear Implantation in Children
• Dr. Blake Papsin
• Pediatric Otolaryngology
• University of Toronto

• Division of General Surgery | September 17
• Lessons from the Co-operative Antimicrobial Therapy of Septic Shock(CATSS)
                  Optimizing Antimicrobial Therapy in the critically ill patient
• Dr. Anand Kumar
• Associate Professor- Section of Critical Care Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Winnipeg & Robert Wood Johnston Medical School
• Camden, New Jersey, USA

• Division of Neurosurgery | September 10
• Cognitive Biomarkers for detecting dementia and possibilities for cognitive enhancement
• Barbara Jaquelyn Sahakian, PhD
• University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute
• Cambridge, UK

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• Division of Neurosurgery | June 11
• Update on imaging and serology in optic neuritis
Dr. Gordon Plant, MD, FRCP(UK), FRCOphth
• Consultant Neuro-ophthalmologist to: Moorfields Eye Hospital
• St Thomas' Hospital Queen Square, London, UK

• Division of Neurosurgery | June 4
• The Curse of the Monoamines: New Evidence of Monoaminergic Modulation of Striatal and Prefrontal Excitability
Albert Gjedde, M.D.
• Professor of Medical Neurobiology, Faculty of Health Sciences
• Aarhus University, Denmark

• Division of Thoracic Surgery | May 29
• SYMPOSIUM: MANAGEMENT OF BARRETT'S ESOPHAGUS AND ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION
• For detailed information read the following document
•   Contact, Invited Experts [with photos] Location, Sponsors

• Division of Neurosurgery | May 28
• Anti-neuroaxonal humoral immunity in multiple sclerosis
• Clarisse L. Dolman Memorial Lecture
• Raymond A. Sobel, M.D.
• Professor of Pathology
• Stanford University School of Medicine- Stanford, CA

• Division of General Surgery | May 7
• "Big Cut, Little Cut, One Cut, No Cut"-
                  Advances in Minimally Invasive Surgery
• Dr. Adrian Park
• Head of General Surgery,
• University of Maryland

• Division of Neurosurgery | May 7
• What's new in headache
• Dr. Jonathan Gladstone, MD, FRCPC
• Director of Neurology & Headache Medicine
• Cleveland Clinic of Canada, Toronto

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• Division of Neurosurgery | April 30
• Cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease
• Dr. Richard Camicioli, MD, FRCPC
• Associate Professor
• Division of Neurology
• The University of Alberta

• Department of Surgery- Grand Round | April 23
• Developing a Template for Health Technology Assessment in Surgery
• Dr. Elijah Dixon
• Assistant Professor, Surgery, Oncology and Community Health Sciences
• Division of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology
• The University of Calgary

• Division of Neurosurgery | April 9
• Gait disorders in the elderly
• Dr. Michael Ronthal
• Professor of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Deputy Chief of Neurology Beth Israel Hospital
• Boston, MA

• Division of Neurosurgery | April 2
• Aggressive surgical management of intramedullary spinal cord tumors
• Dr. Rick Abbott
• Speaker of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada- Professor, Clinical Neurosurgery
• Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre and Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Children's Hospital at Montefiore
• New York, NY

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• Department of Surgery- Grand Round | March 26
• Bariatric Surgery in Canada: Dismantling the Barriers
• Dr. Daniel W. Birch
• Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
• University of Alberta

• Division of General Surgery | March 12
• Colorectal Liver Metastases:
  The Need for a Multidisciplinary Approach
• Dr. Oliver Bathe
• Assistant Professor of Surgery and Oncology
• The University of Calgary

• Division of Otolaryngology | March 12
• Upper Aiway Disease:
  Clinical Impact of Inflammation & Congestion
• C. Bachert, M.D. PhD
• Ghert University Hospital, Belgium

• Division of Neurosurgery | March 7
• 31st ANNUAL B.C. NEUROSCIENCE ACADEMIC DAY
• Peter D Moyes 2008 Lecturer : André Olivier, M.D. Ph.D.
        Professor and Chair Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal
•   View Poster     for Details: Schedule, Speakers, Location, Evaluation form
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• Division of Neurosurgery | March 5
• Impact of 3D imaging and neuronavigation on surgery of epilepsy
• Peter D Moyes 2008 Lecturer - André Olivier, M.D., Ph.D.
• McGill University Health Centre and Montreal Neurological Hospital - Institute

• Department of Surgery- Grand Round | February 27
• Head and Neck Surgery: Looking Back and Moving Forward
• Dr. Patrick Gullane
• University of Toronto

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Past Lectures: Year 2007

• Division of Otolaryngology | December 19
• Recent Advances in Anterior Skull Base Surgery
• Dr. Chris Bergeron
• University of Washington

• Division of General Surgery | December 5
• A Surgeon's Perspective :
  Advanced Wound Care in the Management of Surgical Wounds
• Dr. Éric DeBroux, MD, MSc, FRCSC
• St-Luc Hospital : Montreal , Quebec

     Overview and the presenter's short profile

• Division of Vascular Surgery | October 17
• Patient Safety and the Clinician - Making It Work in the UK
• Lord Naren Patel
• Chair, National Patient Safety Agency for England and Wales

• UBC Department of Surgery- CESEI    Grand Rounds | September 13
• Dr. Gunnar Ahlberg and Dr. Stig Ramel
• Department of Surgery Karolinksa University Hospital
• Solna Stockholm, Sweden
• Integrating Skills Training in Formal Surgical Education

• Division of General Surgery | May 2
• Dr. Allan Hemming
• Professor of Surgery
• Chief of the Division of Transplantation & Hepatobiliary Surgery
• The University of Florida Gainsville, FL
• Challenges in Liver Surgery: Vascular Reconstruction during Hepatic Resection

• Division of Neurosurgery | May 2
• Dr. Margaret Esiri (Clarisse L. Dolman Memorial Lecturer)
• Professor of Neuropathology
• Honorary Consultant, Neuropathhologist: Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust
• Oxford University
• Is there more to multiple sclerosis than demyelination?

• Department of Surgery- 30th Annual Residents' Research Day | April 26
• Dr. Christopher Moir
• Associate Professor
• Department of Surgery, Pediatric General Surgery
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
• Surgical Research: The Patient Comes First

• Division of General Surgery | April 11
• Dr. Grant O'Keefe
• Associate Professor
• The University of Washington
• Genetics and Post-Traumatic Sepsis

• Division of Neurosurgery | April 11
• Dr. Christian Sainte-Rose
• Visiting Speaker of The Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada Region I Advisory Committee
• Professor and Head, Department of Neurosurgery
• Hopital des Enfants Malades Neckerm Paris, France
• Surgery of the cerebellum and neuropsychological development

• Division of General Surgery | April 4
• Dr. Jean Tchervenkov
• Co-director, Liver Transplant Program
• McGill University Health Centre
• Induction Therapy in Liver Transplantation- Indications and Rationale

• Department of Surgery- Grand Round | March 28
• Dr. Mika N. Sinanan
• Division of General Surgery
• The University of Washington
• Simulation, Surgical Robotics, and the Challenges Bringing New Technology into Surgical Practice

• Division of Otolaryngology | March 26
• Dan Bagger-Sjoback
• Professor of Otolaryngology and Director of Ear Research
• Karolinska Institute, Stockholm Sweden
• Quality Aspects on Surgery for Otosclerosis

• Division of Otolaryngology | March 21
• Dr. Neil Bailie
• Otology Fellow
• The University of Toronto
• Recent Advances in Vestibular Testing and Understanding of the VOR

• Division of Neurosurgery | February 28
• Kim J. Burchiel (Peter D Moyes 2007 Lecturer)
• John Raaf Professor and Chairman
• Department of Neurological Surgery
• The Oregon Health and Science University
• Functional neurosurgery: the future

• Division of General Surgery | February 7
• Dr. William Schecter
• Professor of Clinical Surgery
• Vice-Chair of Surgery at UCSF and Chief of Surgery at the San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH)
• The University of California, San Francisco
• The Surgical Response to Mass Casualty Events: The Israeli Experience

• Department of Surgery- Grand Round | January 31
• Dr. John Parboosingh
• Professor Emeritus, Medical Education and Obstetrics and Gynecology
• The University of Calgary
• Moving from CME/CPD to Practice-Based Learning & Improvement or PBLI
• View slides at The Department Grand Rounds: "Archived Presentations"

• Division of Neurosurgery | January 24
• Dr. Elaine Peskind, MD
• Professor
• Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
• The University of Washington, School of Medicine, Seattle
• Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and Alzheimer's disease

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Past Lectures: Year 2006

• Division of General Surgery | December 6
• Dr. Angus Thomson
• The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• Associate Director for Basic Research
• Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute
• Tolerance assays,- a physician's guide to weaning of immunosuppression

• Division of Neurosurgery | November 22
• Brian Buck, MD, FRCPC
• Stroke Fellow
• The University of Toronto
• Optimizing therapy for acute ischemic stroke with vessel and penumbral imaging
• Grant R. Gillett, MSc, MB, ChB (Aukland, DPhil (Oxford), FRAC
• Neurosurgeon and Ethicist
• The University of Otago, New Zealand
• Locked-in Syndrome: Ethical Consideration

• Division of Neurosurgery | November 15
• Michael L. Hutton, Ph.D.
• Consultant and Professor
• Department of Neuroscience
• Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville
• The genetics of frontotemporal dementia

• Department of Surgery- Grand Round | November 8
• Dr. James Rutka
• Professor
• Neurosurgery, The University of Toronto
• Malignant Brain Tumours: Past, present and future perspectives

• Division of Neurosurgery | November 7
• CHUNG LECTURE: Dr. James T. Rutka
• 2006 Janes Visiting Professor in Surgery
• Dan Family Chair in Neurosurgery
• Professor and Chairman, Division of Neurosurgery
• The University of Toronto
• Astrocytoma invasiveness: molecular mechanisms from the leading edge

• Department of Surgery- Grand Round | October 25
• Martin Birchall
• Professor
• Otolaryngology, University of Bristol, U.K.
• EaStER: a "surgical" trial in head and neck oncology

• Division of Neurosurgery | September 27
• Michael Serpell, MB ChB, FCPodS, ECFMG, FRCA
• Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia
• University Department of Anaesthesia
• Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland
• Recent advances in the treatment of neuropathic pain

• Division of Neurosurgery | September 27
• David D. Eisenstat, MD, MA, FRCPC
• Director, Neuro-Oncology (Adult & Pediatric), CancerCare Manitoba
• Associate Professor
• Department of Pediatrics & Child Health, Human Anatomy & Cell Science
• Faculty of Medicine, The University of Manitoba
• DLX homeobox genes in forebrain development-
  relevance to GABAergic neuron differentiation and migration

• Division of Neurosurgery | June 21
• P. Ellen Grant, M.D.
• Chief, Pediatric Radiology
• Massachusetts General Hospital
• Harvard Medical Schhol, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
• Hi Res Neuroimaging for the Hi Res Neurosurgeon

• Division of Vascular Surgery | June 21
• Dr. Michel Makaroun
• Professor
• University of Pittsburgh Medical School
• Endovascular Surgery

• Division of Neurosurgery | May 31
• Stephen Salloway, M.D., M.S.
• Director of Neurology and the Memory and Aging Program Butler Hospital
• Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and Psychiatry Brown Medical School
• Providence, RI
• CADASIL: A genetic model of stroke and small artery dementia

• Department of Surgery- Grand Round | May 24
• Dr. Oleh Antonyshyn
• Associate Professor
• Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Toronto
• Craniofacial Skeletal Reconstruction: Current techniques, outcomes and new developments

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• Department of Surgery- Grand Round | April 26
• Dr. Jeffrey Barkun
• Associate Professor
• Director, Division of General Surgery, McGill University
• Pancreatic cancer: clinical impact and quality of life

• Division of Neurosurgery | April 5
• Dr. Nigel Basheer, MB
• Pediatric Neurology Fellow from Ireland
• Distal-Type "Spinal Muscular Atrophy"

• Division of Otolaryngology | March 29
• Department of Surgery Grand Rounds
• Dr. Wolfe Mann
• Professor, Head of Otolaryngology
• University of Mainz, Germany
• Microscopic Endoscopic Skull-Based Surgery
  and Results of German Skull-Based Tumor Research

• Division of Neurosurgery | March 29
• Enrique Ventureyra, MD, FRCSC, FACS
• Professor, University of Ottawa
• Chief, Division of Paediatric Neurosurgery
• Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
• Epilepsy surgery in the 21st Century

• Division of Neurosurgery | February 22
• R. John Leigh, MD
• Visiting Professor of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
• Louis Strokes Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Blair-Daroff Professor of Neurology
• Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
• Brainstem and cerebellar disorder of rapid eye movements

• Division of Otolaryngology | February 15
• Dr. Sanjay Parikh
• Director of Pediatric Otolaryngology
• Children's Hospital at Montefiore
• New York, NY
• Navigation assited pediatric sinus and skull base surgery

• Division of Vascular Surgery | February 1
• Dr. Michael Bettman
• Professor and Vice Chair for Interventional Services
• Wake Forest University School of Medicine-Radiology
• Winston-Salem, NC
• What we do about patients with elevated creatinine who need contrast

• Division of Neurosurgery | February 1
• Brian G. Weinshenker, MD
• Professor of Neurology
• Mayo Medical School- Rochester, Minnesota
• Neuromyelitis optica: what it was, is, isn't and might be
• Eve Tsai, MD, FRCSC
• Spinal Fellow
• Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
• Spinal cord injury, repair strategies and mechanisms

• Division of Emergency Medicine and Department of Surgery additional Grand Rounds | January 11
• Dr. Patrick Croskerry
• Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University
• Cognitive and Affective Issues Leading to Medical Error

• Division of Neurosurgery | January 11
• Grant R. Gillett, MSc, MB, ChB (Aukland), DPhil (Oxford), FRAC
• Neurosurgeon/Professor, Bioethics
• Otago University, New Zealand
• Ethical decisions in the care of the elderly

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Past Lectures: Year 2005

• Department of Surgery- Grand Round | December 14
• Dr. Lawrence Way
• Professor of Surgery
• University of California, San Francisco
• Bile Duct Injuries

• Division of Neurosurgery | December 14
• Kenneth Rockwood, MD, FRCPC
• Professor of Medicine (Geriatric Medicine & Neurology)
• Dalhousie University, Halifax NS
• Does treatment of Alzheimer's disease by cholinesterase inhibition produce clinically meaningful effects?

• Division of Thoracic Surgery- SYMPOSIUM: Management of Early Lung Cancer | December 9
• Dr. Chris Amos
• MD Andersen Cancer Centre, Houston Texas
• Risk Assessment
• Dr. David Beers
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Molecular Pathology
• Dr. Tom Hartman
• Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
• Lung Cancer Screening: The Mayo Experience
• Dr. G. Alec Patterson
• Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO
• Surgical Management of Early Lung Cancer
• Dr. William Travis
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
• Lung Cancer Pathology: What is the Excitement About?

• Division of General Surgery | December 8


• 9th Annual Transplantation Research Day


• Dr. G. Alex Patterson
• Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO
• Innovations in the Field of Lung Transplantation
• Dr. Lainie Ross
• Assistant Director MacLean Centre for Medical Ethics
• University of Chicago
• Ethics in Organ Donation

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• Department of Surgery- Grand Round | November 23
• Dr. Garnette Sutherland
• Director, Seaman Family MR Research Centre
• Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta
• University of Calgary
• Advancing intraoperative MRI and surgical robotics

• Division of Neurosurgery | November 16
• Richard Arnold Wennberg, MD, FRCPC, Associate Professor
• Director, Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory
• University Health Network, University of Toronto
• On the nature of cortical synchronization (and lack thereof) during generalized epileptic seizures

• Division of General Surgery | November 9
• Dr. Myrddin Rees, Consultant HBP Surgeon
• North Hampshire Hopsital, Basingstoke, UK
• Time to Declare War on Metastases to the Liver

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• Division of General Surgery | October 26
• Dr. Christopher Lentz
• Associate Professor, Department of Surgery & Pediatric
• Division of Trauma- Critical Care, Burns & Emergency Surgery
• University of Rochester Medical Centre
• A Surgeon and His Sponge

• Division of Neurosurgery | October 19
• Jeffrey Mark Politsky, MD, FRCPC
• Assistant Professor of Neurology
• Medical College of Georgia Adult & Children's Medical Centers
• Augustra, Georgia
• Alternative therapy for epilepsy: Responsive cortical stimulation

• Division of Neurosurgery | October 19
• Stephen M. Rao, Ph.D.
• Professor of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences
• Director, Functional Imaging Research Center
• Medical College of Wisconsin
• Neuropsychological dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis

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• Division of Neurosurgery | September 28
• Tiffany N. Townsend, MD, CM, FRCPC
• Clinical Epilepsy Fellow
• Cleveland Clinic Foundation
• Prediction of epileptic seizures

• Division of Otolaryngology | September 21
• Dr. J. Goebel
• Washington University, St. Louis
• Use of MImix Hydroxipatite Bone Cement for Difficult Ossicular Recunstruction

• Division of Neurosurgery | September 21
• Peter Dirks, MD, FRCSC
• Associate Professor
• The University of Toronto
• The Hospital for Sick Children
• Genesis of human brain tumors: stem cells take root

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• Division of Neurosurgery | June 1
• Dr. Catherine Daumas-Duport
• (Clarisse L. Dolman Memorial Lecture)
• Professor and Chief of Service, Anatomical Pathology
• Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne Paris, France
• Oligodendrogliomas

• Division of General Surgery | May 27
• Dr. Jose M. Tellado MD FACS
• General Surgery & Liver Tranplant Unit, Assistant Professor of Surgery
• Universidad Compultense; Department of Surgery, Hospital Gregoire Maranon
• Madrid, Spain
• Managing Intra-Abdominal Infections

• Division of Paediatric General Surgery | May 25
• Professor Paul Tam
• Associate Vice President for Research and Professor & Chair of Pediatric Surgery
• University of Hong Kong
• A Surgeon-Scientist's Odyssey:
  from The Histology of Hirschsprung's Disease to Genomics
  for The International HapMap Project

• Division of Otolaryngology | May 4
• Dr. Craig S. Derkay
• Professor, Otolaryngology & Pediatrics
• Eastern Virginia Medical School
• Recurrent Respiratory Papilloma Update 2005

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• Division of General Surgery | April 27
• Dr. Helen M. MacRae
• Associate Professor
• Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
• Technical Skills Centres - Flight Simulators of the Future?

• Division of General Surgery | April 20
• Dr. Jason Wong
• Fellow, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Legacy Health System, Portland, Oregon
• The ABC's of Laparoscopic Gastrointestinal Surgery

• Division of Neurosurgery | April 20
• Elsdon Storey, FRACP, DPhil
• Director, Van Cleef Roet Centre for Nervous Diseases, Monash University
• Head, Department of Neurology, Alfred Hospital; Melbourne, Australia
• Quantitation of cerebellar function

• Division of General Surgery | April 13
• Dr. Andrew J.A. Holland
• Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery and Urology, University of Sydney
• Trauma Care in the Pediatric Patient
• Videoconferenced By Pediatric Trauma Program,BC Children's Hospital

• Division of General Surgery | April 6
• Dr. Scott Helton
• Professor and Chief, General Surgery, University of Illnois at Chicago
• Complex Ventral Abdominal Hernia Repair: Advances in Technique and the Utility of New Biomaterials

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• Division of Otolaryngology | March 30
• Dr. C. Chan Gunn
• Clinical Professor- Multidisciplinary Pain Centre, University of Washington
• Pain in the neck: Clinical signs in neuropathic pain

• Division of Neurosurgery | March 30
• Dr. Concezio Di Rocco
• Professor of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Catholic University Medical School, Rome, Italy
• Thalamic tumors in children

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• Division of Otolaryngology | February 9
• Dr. David Lau
• Consultant Otolaryngologist
• Singapore General Hospital
• Making sense of swallowing disorders

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• Division of Vascular Surgery | January 20
• Dr. Wang Chun
• 1st Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University
• Division of General Surgery / Division of Vascular Surgery
• Five minute wait in Emergency: How China does it

• Division of Neurosurgery | January 19
• Heather G. Stewart, BSc, RT (EMG), PhD Candidate
• Institute of Clinical Neurosciences (ALS Research Group)
• Umea University, Umea, Sweden
• Michelle M. Mezei, MDCM, FRCPC
• Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Neurology
• The University of British Columbia
• Superoxide dismutase (SOD1) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in British Columbia

• Division of Neurosurgery | January 12
• Dr. Jeffrey Kleim
• Alberta Heritage Medical Scholar,Associate Professor
• Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience
• University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta
• How understanding brain plasticity can enhance recovery after stroke

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Past Lectures: Year 2004

• Division of Neurosurgery | December 8
• Professor Larry Steinman
• Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
• Chair, Interdepartmental Program in Immunology
• Beckman Center for Molecular Medicine, B002
• Stanford, CA
• The future of antigen specific MS therapy: from altered peptide ligands to DNA vaccines

• Division of Neurosurgery | November 24
• John C. Steele, MD, FRCP(C)
• Physician-Director
• Skilled Nursing Facility, GMH
• Consultant Neurologist, GMH and FHP
• 50 years of study: the relevance of lytico-bodig to universal neurodegenerative diseases

• Division of Neurosurgery | November 17
• P. Ellen Grant, M.D.
• Division Head, Pediatric Radiology, MGH
• Assistant Professor of Radiology, HMS
• Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
• Advances in epilepsy imaging
• Dr. Elaine Wirrell
• Program Director and Associate Professor
• Pediatric Neurology, University of Calgary
• Idiopathic generalized epilepsy: Syndrome identification, rationale treatment and prognosis

• Division of Neurosurgery | November 10
• W.R. Wayne Martin, MD, FRCPC
• Director, Movement Disorders Clinic
• Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
• Henri M. Toupin Professor of Neurological Sciences
• Department of Medicine (Neurology)
• University of Alberta
• Neuroimaging in Parkinsonism:
  The quest for a biomarker of disease progression

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• Division of Neurosurgery | October 27
• Michael Wade Nicolle, MD, FRCPC, D.Phil.
• Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences
• The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
• Director, Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory
• London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario
• Management of Myasthenia Gravis: Before, during and after the storm

• Division of General Surgery | October 6
• Dr. Michael R. Lucey
• Hepatologist, Professor of Medicine
• University of Wisconsin Medical School
• Long Term Outcome after Liver Transplantation

• October 6
• Dr. Joseph Dohar
• Pediatric Otolaryngologist
• Pittsburgh Children's Hospital
• Airway Healing

• September 22
• Anthony M. Kaufmann, MD, FRCS(C)
• Associate Professor
• University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
• Current applications of radiosurgery: our first year of gamma knife experience

• May 26
• Dr. John Hunter
• Professor and Chair Department of Surgery
• Oregon Health & Science University
• The Role of Fundoplication for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

• May 12
• Dr. Gerald Fried
• Professor of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine
• McGill University
• Skills, Training, and Evaluation in Laparoscopic Surgery

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• March 31
• Dr. Jerry Oakes
• Visiting Professor of The Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada Region I Advisory Committee
• Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Alabama Birmingham, Alabama
• Experience with the pediatric Chiari I malformation

• March 31
• Dr. Vincent Hayward
• Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, McGill University
• New Directions for High Fidelity Surgical Simulation with Haptics

• March 10
• Garnette Sutherland, MD, FRCS(C)
• Professor of Neurosurgery
• University of Calgary & Foothills Medical Centre
• Calgary, Alberta
• Intraoperative MRI and robotics

• March 10
• Dr. Nathaniel Soper
• Professor, Vice-Chair Clinical Affairs
• Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery
• Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, Illinois
• Teaching Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills

• March 10
• Garnette Sutherland, MD, FRCSC
• Professor of Neurosurgery
• University of Calgary
• Intraoperative MRI & Robotics

• March 10
• Dr. David N. Louis
• Clarisse L. Dolman Memorial Lecture
• Professor, Department of Pathology
• Harvard Medical School
• Toward a molecular classification of human gliomas

• March 5
• Dr. G. Rees Cosgrove
• Associate Professor, Microsurgical Centre
• Massachusetts General Hospital
• Imaging and Epilepsy: A Neurosurgeon's Perspective

• February 6
• Dr. Matt Lorincz
• Staff Scientist Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  Seattle, Washington
• NDNA methylation regulates transcription in more ways than one

• January 28
• Dr. Philip Scheltens
• Visiting Professor of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Department of Neurology/Alzheimer Center, VU Medisch Centrum
  Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Multidisciplinary dementia diagnosis: using MRI and CSF in routine work up

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