Surgical Education Node
Node Chairs: Dr. Peter Wang, Urology & Dr. Michael Ott, General Surgery
The surgical education node intends to utilize a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to advance every facet of surgical education including evaluation, feedback, teamwork, team communication, surgical decision-making, competency-based medical education, resident selection, skill acquisition, simulation, virtual reality, augmented reality and curriculum design. In order to achieve this comprehensive goal, the node aims to expand membership to include education scientists (CERI), engineers (CSTAR), mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists (AI, imaging and video game specialists), psychologists and other healthcare professionals (nursing and other departments within the faculty of medicine).
Research Areas that would be Included in this Node:
- Educational projects involving simulation, competency-based education, resident work hours, different teaching styles, resident burnout, fatigue
- Educational projects, such as decision aid development, online material, handouts, models
- Qualitative research projects such as exploring culture in the operating room, hidden curriculum, patient experience & patient expectations
Peter Wang
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Education; Simulation; Assesment; Surgical; Curriculum
Teaching: Currently Accepting Graduate Students
Biography: Research Overview: My interests involve medical and surgical education, more specifically simulation, resident evaluation and curriculum design. I also have an interest in prenatal hydronephrosis, vesicoureteral reflux, individualized therapy and hypospadias.
Andreana Butter
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Congenital diaphragmatic hernia; Minimally invasive surgery; Robotic surgery, Surgical education; Chest wall anomalies
Teaching: Currently accepting graduate students.
Biography: Research Overview: Clinically relevant research in many areas of pediatric surgery - basic science research in congenital diaphragmatic hernia and surgical education research - focused on both medical students (undergraduate) and residents.
Mel Boulton
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Surgical education; Cerebrovascular autoregulation
Biography: Research Overview: Prefer collaborative research focused on cerebrovascular imaging and autoregulation. Surgical education is an important daily activity, but I have yet to be scholarly in this area.
Sayra Cristancho
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Complexity; Systems engineering; Qualitative; Workplace
Teaching: Currently Accepting Graduate Students
Biography: Research Overview: My research program focuses on investigating the organizational, social and personal factors that determine the evolution of a complex clinical situation and their influence on how groups of clinicians adapt to the complexities of their professional practice. Towards this end, I follow both Qualitative and Systems Engineering approaches to research.
John Denstedt
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Biomaterials; Urolithiasis
Biography: Research Overview: Clinical and basic science investigations into urolithiasis. Biomaterials research.
Sandrine deRibaupierre
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Surgical simulation; Augmented Reality; Virtual Reality
Teaching: Currently Accepting Graduate Students
Biography: Research Overview: Part of my research is evaluating surgical simulator and their effect on training. We are also designing augmented and virtual reality tools for surgical training.
Roy Eagleson
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Surgical Training; Evaluation of Surgical Skills; Surgical Simulation
Teaching: Currently Accepting Graduate Students
Biography: Research Overview: Design and Evaluation of Surgical Simulation systems, Performance Evaluation, Surgical Process Modeling.
Dalilah Fortin
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Thoracic Surgery; Critical Care Medicine
Aaron Grant
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Surgical Education; Competency; Melanoma cutaneous oncology; Assessment
Biography: Research Overview: Currently enrolled in a masters of health professions education. My current thesis is based on surgical education. I also have interests in competency based education and assessment. Other areas of clinical research that are of interest are in melanoma and cutaneous oncology.
Jeff Hawel
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: ERCP; Endoscopy; Advanced laparoscopic surgery; Endoscopic mucosal resections
Teaching: Research Overview: I have a specific interest in advanced laparoscopic techniques, particularly foregut, hiatal hernia, and anti-reflux surgery. In addition, I perform both ERCP and advanced endoscopic techniques, such as endoscopic mucosal resections, and have interests in research relating to improving endoscopic outcomes.
John Landau
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Point of care ultrasound in perioperative patients; Surgical education; Competency-based medical education; Advanced endovascular procedures
Marie-Eve LeBel
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Simulation; Arthroscopy; Shoulder and knee; Performance assessment; Skills development
Teaching: Currently Accepting Graduate Students
Biography: Research Overview: My research focuses on surgical simulation in the field of arthroscopic surgery, more specifically skills development and performance assessment. I develop surgical simulators and associated instruments and also have experience with force-sensing and eye-tracking.
W. Robert Leeper
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Education; Simulation; Trauma
Teaching: Currently Accepting Graduate Students
Biography: Research Overview: I am an academic trauma surgeon and intensive care physician with primary research interests in the fields of trauma outcomes and simulation education. My educational work focuses on both skill acquisition and inter-professional crisis resource management.
Damir Matic
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Cleft lip and palate; Fat grafting; Surgical education; Muskuloskeletal growth ; Facial Nerve palsy
Biography: Research Overview: I am currently involved in a multicentered trial looking at cleft lip and palate outcomes as well as quality assurance. I am also involved in development of curricula for trauma directed at practicing surgeons which also involved medical education research projects.
Michael Ott
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: CBD Implementation
Mehdi Qiabi
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Curriculum design; Image-guided therapies; Video-based assessments; Patient-oriented outcomes; Simulation in Thoracic Surgery; Endoscopy; Oncology; Minimally invasive surgery
Mackenzie Quantz
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Inflammatory response to surgery; Design and production of simulators for surgical medical education
Christopher Schlachta
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Computer assisted surgery; Surgical simulation; Robotic surgery; Surgical Training
Biography: Research Overview: Our research is focused on computer assisted technologies to enhance surgical therapeutics and training.
Natashia Seemann
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Surgical oncology; Surgical education; Gender; Inflammatory bowel disease;
Teaching: Not currently accepting graduate students.
Biography: Research Overview:I am just starting out my career but have a clinical interest in pediatric surgical oncology and inflammatory bowel disease. I have a masters of surgical education and am interested in surgical education, as well as sociocultural issues in surgery including gender in surgery and how surgeons experience stress in the operating room.
Julie Ann Van Koughnett
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Colorectal; Oncology; Surgical education
Biography: Research Overview: Interests include surgical education and curriculum innovation, colorectal cancer outcomes and patient directed outcomes on quality of care.
