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Read the Research Day 2023 Recap!
Congratulations to all the winners for the EXSU/IRR Research Day on May 17th 2023!
ORAL PRESENTERS (200$ prize for each winner):
- Malcolm Ryan - Basic Sciences
- Recai Yilmaz - Clinical Sciences
- Shrieda Jain - Outcomes
Runner ups (2) (100$ prize for each winner):
- Kai Sheng - Basic Sciences
- Sarah Ghezelbash - Clinical Sciences
POSTER PRESENTERS (100$ prize for each winner):
- Diego Loggia - Basic Sciences
- Alireza Zahedi - Clinical Sciences
- Temitope Grace Joshua - Outcomes
Runner ups (2) (50$ prize for each winner):
- Wajih Jawhar - Basic Sciences
- Steven Serafini - Basic Sciences
Thanks again for your participation at research day, as well as your stellar performance.
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Research has been a common thread running through all kinds of professions and pursuits, from Ancient Rome right up to the present day. We continue this tradition in the Department of Surgical and Interventional Sciences at Â鶹AV, always dedicated to finding new knowledge and ideas that can ultimately lead to better clinical care. Research Day is an opportunity for trainees (medical students, residents, graduate students, fellows, and post-doctoral fellows) to present their research to the rest of the department. Each year the program includes oral and poster presentations by trainees.
Keynote Speaker
Sheila Russo, PhD
Dr. Sheila Russo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Division of Materials Science and Engineering at Boston University (BU). She received her Ph.D. degree at the BioRobotics Institute, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy. She completed her postdoctoral training at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. She is the founder and director of the Material Robotics Laboratory at BU. Her research interests include medical and surgical robotics, soft robotics, origami-inspired mechanisms, sensing and actuation, and meso- and micro-scale manufacturing techniques. She is the recipient of the 2020 NIH Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators.
Prof. Russo’s background is at the intersection of biomedical robotics, soft robotics, advanced manufacturing, and advanced materials technologies. Her research focuses on design, development, and fabrication of biocompatible, smart, soft, and miniaturized surgical robots that could help restore sensor feedback and distal dexterity in minimally invasive procedures. She is interested in developing robotic technologies to improve human health, tackling current limitations in medicine as well as enabling novel therapies not possible to perform today
Title of Presentation: Soft Material Robotics and Next-Generation Surgical Robots
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Invited Speakers
Jean-Pierre Pelage, MD, PhD
Dr. Jean-Pierre Pelage holds the role of Chair, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), Â鶹AV. Dr. Pelage comes to Montreal from his native France where he led the Radiology Department at Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) Caen Normandie.
Dr. Pelage obtained his medical degree from Université-Paris VI, France, in 1996 and received a Diplôme d’études spécialisées (DES) radiodiagnostic et imagerie médicale (board certification in radiology) the same year. In 1998, he received an MSc in Image Processing from Université de technologie de Compiègne followed by a PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 2002 from the same institution. In 2018, he received board certification in oncology (oncologic imaging option).
Dr. Pelage enjoys international recognition for his clinical research, notably for work funded by Principal Investigator Grants from the Clinical Research Hospital Program (PHRC) in France. Its fame is also linked to several innovations, in particular the invention, in 1998, of a new technique for embolizing uterine fibroids using calibrated tris-acrylic gelatin microspheres and, in 2012, the creation of a new embolization gel. In 2003, he participated in the founding of Archimmed, a research organization offering the preclinical evaluation of medical devices and drugs.
Title: Future innovations in interventional radiology
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David Juncker, PhD
Dr. David Juncker holds a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering, and is a Professor and the Department Chair of Biomedical Engineering at Â鶹AV. Precision medicine emerged as a concept after we began to understand that health and wellness are personal to each individual. Genetics plays a role, as does an individual’s environment and medical history. We can now track the efficacy of medicine using molecular analysis technologies that are able to detect millions of biomolecules at once.
Dr. David Juncker, Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering, is developing bioengineering technologies to analyze proteins, extracellular vesicles (small lipid bubbles made of cell membranes and filled with cellular material), single cells and bacteria that can be used to track disease progression at the molecular and cellular levels. Juncker and his research team hope that by integrating the multiple approaches developed in their lab with other technologies, it may be possible to sense changes in the body—and diagnose diseases—even before symptoms appear. Their work may also provide a better understanding of what it means to be healthy, and could lead to preventive strategies that maximize well-being.
Juncker and his group are also working with novel nanotechnologies and 3D printing to create miniature organson-a-chip. These miniaturized constructs will help us understand cell-to-cell interactions and organ function, and could eventually be used for drug studies based on patient-derived cells.
Juncker’s use of multiple bioengineering technologies will advance our understanding of how proteins, vesicles, cells, tissues, organs and the human body function. His research will also help guide precision medicine and optimize well-being.
Three start-ups spun-off from his lab, Sensoreal, Parallex Bioassays and one he co-founded, nplex biosciences. He also advocated for mass rapid testing to help contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
Title: Sugar molded and sugar coated ultrasoft brain implants.
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Chelsia Gillis, PhD
Dr. Chelsia Gillis is an Assistant Professor in the School of Human Nutrition in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at Â鶹AV. Dr. Gillis is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Nutrition Support Clinician®, and Vanier Scholar with a MSc in Human Nutrition from Â鶹AV and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Calgary.
Dr. Gillis’ research program aims to improve surgical patient outcomes by generating evidence-based knowledge and translating findings into clinical practice to enhance healthcare services in Canada. Her research interests include prehabilitation, Enhanced Recovery After Surgery, surgical metabolism, and patient engagement. Prehabilitation is a paradigmatic shift in the usual care of surgical patients that capitalizes on surgical wait times to correct modifiable risk factors, including malnutrition, to enhance recovery. Dr. Gillis’ innovative approach challenges current “siloed” nutritional assessment techniques through the creation of surgery-specific tools that integrate both etiologic and phenotypic assessments of malnutrition with physical function to provide personalized, targeted care that ensures the right patient receives the right care at the right time. Dr. Gillis has received research grants as Principal Investigator from the Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research, American Society for Parenteral Enteral Nutrition, and European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism.
Dr. Chelsia Gillis’ research focuses on Prehabilitation: A preoperative intervention that includes exercise, nutrition, and psychological strategies to prepare patients for the stress of surgery.
Title: Can we use Computed Tomography-Defined Body Composition to prescribe Surgical Prehabilitation?
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The Surgical and Interventional Sciences Graduate Program extends special thanks to our presenters and posters judges
- Dr. Lisbet Haglund
- Dr. Anie Philip
- Dr. David Junker
- Dr. Jacques Lapointe
- Dr. Ida Derish (Post-Doc)
- Dr. Fackson Mwale
- Dr. Julio Flavio Fiore Jr
- Dr. Chelsea Gillis
- Dr. Jason Harley
- Dr. Derek Rozensweig
- Dr. Eva Michaud (Post-Doc)
The Research Day Organizing Committee:
- Dr. Fackson Mwale, Professor and Graduate Program Director
- Dr. Jake Barralet, IRR Associate Program Leader
- Ida Derish, PhD Candidate, Vice-Chair EXSU Graduate Student Society
- Micha Huynh, Administrative and Student Affairs Coordinator
- Sharon Turner, Graduate Program Coordinator
- Dr. Michael Grant, PhD, Graduate Program Coordinator
- Laura Epure, MSc Eng., Data Analyst
- Terry Ng Wan, Chief Multimedia Technician
- Muskan Alad, PhD student
- Anne Mathiot, IRR Program manager
If you have any questions regarding the event, please contact Ms. Sharon Turner at gradstudies.surgery [at] mcgill.ca
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