The University Health Network’s Surgeon in Chief, Dr. Shaf Keshavjee, has received the Governor General’s 2020 Innovation Award for pioneering the Toronto Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP) System which repairs injured donor lungs making them suitable for transplantation....
The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract has awarded Dr. David Al Adra this year’s SSAT Career Development Award for his project titled: “Immunomodulation of the Liver using Normothermic ex-vivo Machine Perfusion”. Dr. Al Adra graduated from the...
Newsweek’s second annual publication of Top 10 Hospitals in the World ranked the University Health Network’s Toronto General Hospital fourth this year. The list, published earlier this spring, is a result of a ranking system developed by Newsweek in conjunction with...
COMPASS Trial researchers led by UHN Drs. Jennifer Knox (PI -medical oncologist), Steven Gallinger (surgical oncologist) and Faiyaz Notta (scientist), found that pancreatic cancers could be grouped into five different subtypes based on their genetic information. One...
University of Toronto Faculty presenting at the AHPBA Annual Meeting in Miami next week include Professor Ian McGilvray, who will discuss ‘SMA Resection – Evidence and Technical Considerations’, Friday, March 6 – 12:45 pm, and Professor Steven Gallinger,...
