Dr. Adom Bondzi-Simpson is a general surgery resident and PhD student at the University of Toronto. He’s been nationally recognized for his advocacy work and research work on social justice and social determinants of health. He is a winner of the Canadian Medical Association for Young Leaders, the 2023 winner of the Mikhael Award for Medical Educat…

Thank you so much for joining us on Cold Steel! The tremulous surgeon seems like such an oxymoron, an impossible paradox. The reality of course, is that many surgeons have a tremor. Our discussion on this episode with Lilli Cooper on tremors was a wonderful exploration of performance anxiety in surgery. Lilli Cooper is a plastic surgeon in the UK, …

We’re really excited to bring you talks that we recorded as part of the CANUCS Surgical Fellows course. CANUCS is a national organization that stands for Canadian collaborative on urgent care surgery. Dr. Chad Ball and Kelly Vogt were instrumental in bringing together some really fantastic speakers to talk about the critical knowledge and skills th…

We’re really excited to bring you talks that we recorded as part of the CANUCS Surgical Fellows course. CANUCS is a national organization that stands for Canadian collaborative on urgent care surgery. Dr. Chad Ball and Kelly Vogt were instrumental in bringing together some really fantastic speakers to talk about the critical knowledge and skills th…

We’re really excited to bring you talks that we recorded as part of the CANUCS Surgical Fellows course. CANUCS is a national organization that stands for Canadian collaborative on urgent care surgery. Dr. Chad Ball and Kelly Vogt were instrumental in bringing together some really fantastic speakers to talk about the critical knowledge and skills th…

We’re really excited to bring you talks that we recorded as part of the CANUCS Surgical Fellows course. CANUCS is a national organization that stands for Canadian collaborative on urgent care surgery. Dr. Chad Ball and Kelly Vogt were instrumental in bringing together some really fantastic speakers to talk about the critical knowledge and skills th…

We’re really excited to bring you talks that we recorded as part of the CANUCS Surgical Fellows course. CANUCS is a national organization that stands for Canadian collaborative on urgent care surgery. Dr. Chad Ball and Kelly Vogt were instrumental in bringing together some really fantastic speakers to talk about the critical knowledge and skills th…

We’re really excited to bring you talks that we recorded as part of the CANUCS Surgical Fellows course. CANUCS is a national organization that stands for Canadian collaborative on urgent care surgery. Dr. Chad Ball and Kelly Vogt were instrumental in bringing together some really fantastic speakers to talk about the critical knowledge and skills th…

As a trainee, I rarely thought about the details of setting up your own office, and yet I always felt that there had to be a way of doing it better. Dr. Erin King-Mullins is a colorectal surgeon in Fayetteville, Georgia. She created the Colorectal Wellness Center. On this episode, we talk to her about why and how she created the Colorectal Wellness…

Dr. Elena Parvez is a surgical oncologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery. Her clinical expertise and research interests are in breast cancer. She is exploring breast cancer outcomes in refugees to Canada who have breast cancer. She has received funding from Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to conduct a trial which…

Thank you so much for joining us on the podcast! In many philosophical and religious traditions, there is an emphasis on how intentionality is one of the fundamental tenets of being able to live a fulfilling life. Marcus Aurelius wrote, “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.” One surgeon who is…

In this episode, we spoke with Drs. Jen McCall and Romy Nitsch about imposterism. Dr. McCall is a minimally invasive gynecology fellow at the University of Ottawa and Dr. Nitsch is a minimally invasive gynecologist at Queen’s University. The two researchers, along with Jessica Pudwell and Jamie Pyper, recently published a study in the Journal of Am…

On this episode, Dr. Elizabeth Squirrell joined us to talk about Crohns disease. Dr. Squirrell is a staff gastroenterologist at Queen’s University and has a special expertise in inflammatory bowel disease. In this two part series, we first talk about the diagnosis of crohns disease and the different patterns of its presentation. In part 2, we talk …

On this episode, Dr. Elizabeth Squirrell joined us to talk about Crohns disease. Dr. Squirrell is a staff gastroenterologist at Queen’s University and has a special expertise in inflammatory bowel disease. In this two part series, we first talk about the diagnosis of crohns disease and the different patterns of its presentation. In part 2, we talk …

Dr. Sharmila Dissanaike is a trauma and acute care surgeon and is the chair of surgery at Texas Tech University. She holds multiple national leadership roles, including as President-Elect of the American Burn Association, Vice-President of the Southwest Surgical Congress, and Governor of the American College of Surgeons. We really delved into her t…

Dr. Bellal Joseph is a trauma surgeon and the chief of the division of trauma, surgical critical care, burns, and acute care surgery at the University of Arizona in Tucson. While it was impossible to delve into the breadth and depth of his research interests, we did explore some of our favorites with Dr. Joseph, including his ongoing investigation …

Janice Kwan is an internist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. Her research interests focus on health care quality and diagnostic error. She collaborated with folks from the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) to investigate diagnostic errors in surgery. Her paper, published in the Canadian Journal of Surgery, highlight the significant …

Most of us come out of training and have no idea on how to balance a busy clinical practice, academic interests, and most importantly, our home and personal lives. Mr. Adi Kumar is trying to change that. Mr. Kumar is a consultant neurosurgeon in the UK and has written a book called Work Less, Live More: The Doctor’s Guide for Time Freedom. We caugh…

Shiva Jayaraman is a minimally invasive and hepatobiliary surgeon at St. Joseph’s Hospital. He’s been traveling around the world talking about his innovative peer-to-peer coaching program for bile duct injuries. Not only is this such an important clinical topic that virtually every general surgeon in the world has to deal with, but his group’s appr…

On this episode, we had the opportunity to speak with Beverly Blaney. Bev is a psychotherapist who has extensive experience doing therapy with physicians in particular, as well as conducting workshops on mindfulness for Queen’s School of Medicine. We asked her about her perspective on the psychological challenges surgeons experience during their tr…

We sat down with arguably the world expert on low anterior resection syndrome. Dr. Marylise Boutros (https://twitter.com/BoutrosMarylise) is an academic colorectal surgeon at Cleveland Clinic Florida.. Dr. Boutros talks about her pioneering research to understand and treat the challenging functional issues that patients must content with. We also t…

This is a re-broadcast to honour the memory of the "Boss" Dr. Feliciano. Original shownotes: It’s not an understatement to say that Dr. David Feliciano is a true giant in trauma surgery. Dr. David V. Feliciano received his medical degree in 1970 from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He completed his general surgery training at Mayo Clinic,…

We are re-broadcasting this episode in honour of the memory of the late Dr. David Feliciano. Original shownotes: In this episode, we were lucky enough again to be joined by Dr. David Feliciano. Dr. Feliciano is a world-renowned trauma surgeon and a passionate surgical historian. Today he joins us to talk about surgeons who won the Nobel Prize and t…

It is with sadness but also profound gratitude that we commemorate the passing of David V Feliciano on January 4, 2024. We invited our friend Neil Parry on the podcast to talk about our memories and the legacy of this amazing surgeon, researcher, and mentor. Links: 1. David V. Feliciano: Contributions to acute care surgery. https://www.canjsurg.ca/…

We still got more in the vault from CSF 2023! In this episode, Dr. Spoyalo talked about her work on perioperative warming at Vancouver General Hospital. Listen to the work she's done to understand what goes on for warming (most patients have 11 blankets!) and the modeling she's done to figure out the most effective techniques for warming. Another e…

In this special episode, we had the opportunity to do our first live Cold Steel episode! We were lucky enough to be able to have Dr. Justin Dimick join us at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario as part of our William Ersil research day. During this interview we really delved into Dr. Dimick’s life story and his vision for how we can continue to…

Dr. Haytham Kaafarani is a trauma surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. We caught up with him after he recently gave a phenomenal talk at the Canadian Surgical Forum in Vancouver earlier this year. Dr. Kaafarani talked about his work in Lebanon after the explosion in 2020, his research on intra operative adverse events, and ultimately on his w…

Do you really have to do that appendectomy for acute uncomplicated appendicitis at 2 am??? Now you have level 1 evidence to tell you! Continuing on with our best of Canadian Surgical Forum 2023 series, we interviewed Dr. Zuhaib Mir (current HPB and transplant fellow at Dalhousie University). He spoke on behalf of his coinvestigators on their amazin…

This year we've had the pleasure of introducing a new segment where we highlight some of our favourite sessions from our national general surgery conference, the Canadian Surgical Forum (CSF). In this episode, hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) surgeon Dr. Katrina Duncan (@dockcduncan) and HPB fellow Dr. Richard Gilbert (@RichWDGilbert) update us on th…

How do surgeons incorporate new techniques, tools and approaches while in practice? Dr. Hugh MacDonald is a colorectal surgeon at Queen's University. He has been in practice for nearly 30 years and has been at the forefront of adopting new techniques into his practice, including laparoscopy and most recently robotic surgery. We talk to Hugh about h…

Dr. Amin Madani is the director of the Surgical AI Research Academy (SARA) at the University Health Network (UHN). He is an endocrine and acute care surgeon at UHN and assistant professor of surgery at the University of Toronto. Dr. Madani talked to us and showed us some of the work he is doing on AI in surgery and in particular on computer vision.…

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e148-ron-barbosa-twitter-threads-surgical-education On this episode we were joined by the Twitter (X???) legend Dr. Ron Barbosa. Dr. Barbosa is a trauma surgeon at Legacy Health in Portland, Oregon. He's gained popularity for his fantastic threads on Twitter discussing topics in surgery everyone a…

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e147-journal-club-nathan-ginther-stapled-rectal-prolapse-repair In this episode, we were joined by colorectal surgeon Dr. Nathan Ginther. Dr. Ginther is based out of the University of Saskatchewan, and is the principle author of the CJS article published in January of 2023, entitled, "A comparison…

We caught up with Dr. Justin Rivard, new program director at University of Manitoba general surgery residency program! Links: 1. https://umanitoba.ca/medicine/department-surgery/general-surgery-residency 2. https://www.instagram.com/uofmgeneralsurgery/?hl=enKirjoittanut Canadian Journal of Surgery

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e146-jonathan-white-surgery101-surgical-education-and-sabbaticals We were joined on this episode by Dr. Jonathan White. Dr. White is a colorectal surgeon at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, and is the co-creator of @Surgery101, the wildly successful surgical podcast aimed at medical …

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e145-masterclass-rob-bechara-optical-evaluation-colonic-polyps On this episode we were joined by the master of optical evaluation of polyps, Dr. Rob Bechara. Dr. Bechara is an advanced therapeutic endoscopist at Queen’s University, and he gave us a masterclass on how to look at polyps and assess w…

All of us at some point in our career experience physical pain while operating. We were lucky to be joined by Dr. Geeta Lal (@geetalalmd on twitter) on the show today to talk about the concept of surgical ergonomics. Make sure you check out the YouTube version of this episode, for a special segment where Dr. Lal looks at some actual footage of us o…

To obtain the transcript, please contact podcast.cjs@gmail.com. This is a rebroadcast of our conversation with Dr. Tracy Scott, co-program director of the UBC general surgery residency program! Links: 1. https://twitter.com/ubcgensurg?lang=en 2. https://surgery.med.ubc.ca/divisions/general-surgery/ 3. https://gsresidency.surgery.med.ubc.ca/…

To obtain the transcript, please contact podcast.cjs@gmail.com. This is a rebroadcast of our conversation with Dr. Ryan Rochon, program director for the Calgary general surgery residency program! Links: 1. https://twitter.com/calgarygensurg 2. https://www.instagram.com/calgarygensurg/?hl=en 3. https://cumming.ucalgary.ca/departments/surgery/section…

To obtain the transcript, please contact podcast.cjs@gmail.com. This is a rebroadcast from last year's conversation with former program director Dr. Mike Ott! Please check out new program director Dr. Julie Ann Van Koughnett's twitter handle: https://twitter.com/javankoughnett Links: 1. https://twitter.com/western_gensurg 2. https://www.schulich.uw…

To obtain the transcript, please contact podcast.cjs@gmail.com. This is a rebroadcast of our conversation with Dr. Sender Liberman about the McGill general surgery residency program! Links: 1. https://www.mcgill.ca/generalsurgery/current-residents 2. https://twitter.com/McGillGenSurgKirjoittanut Canadian Journal of Surgery

This is a rebroadcast of last year's conversation with Dr. Lucy Helyer on the Dalhousie general surgery residency program! Links: 1. https://medicine.dal.ca/departments/department-sites/surgery/divisions/general-surgery.html 2. https://www.instagram.com/dalhousiegensurg/?hl=enKirjoittanut Canadian Journal of Surgery

To obtain the transcript, please contact podcast.cjs@gmail.com. We had the pleasure of speaking to Dr. Ilun Yang, new program director of the general surgery residency program at McMaster University! Links: 1. https://twitter.com/mcmastersurgery 2. https://surgery.mcmaster.ca/divisions/general-surgery 3. https://www.instagram.com/macgensurg/?hl=en…

We had the pleasure of catching up with Dr. Alex Mathieson for the 2nd year in a row to talk about the MUN general surgery residency program! YouTube: https://youtu.be/8Xn8KnamcQ0 Links: 1. https://www.mun.ca/medicine/surgery/ 2. https://www.instagram.com/mungensx/?hl=enenKirjoittanut Canadian Journal of Surgery

We had the pleasure of speaking to new program director Dr. Michael McCall about the U of A general surgery residency program! YouTube version: https://youtu.be/iD40jZgXcvs Links: 1. Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/... 2. Program Website: https://www.ualberta.ca/surgery/divis... 3. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uofagensurg/…

To obtain the transcript, please contact podcast.cjs@gmail.com. We had the pleasure of speaking with program director and pediatric surgeon Dr. Sarah Jones about the Queen's University General Surgery Program! YouTube: https://youtu.be/RdoEpu_wGjM Links: 1. Queen's General Surgery Department: https://surgery.queensu.ca/postgraduate/general-surgery …

To obtain the transcript, please contact podcast.cjs@gmail.com. It’s that time of year again, when we have the pleasure of interviewing and selecting our future colleagues. We are, of course, talking about the CaRMS interview process. Most of our listeners will know that CaRMS stands for Canadian Resident Matching Service. Interviews are well under…

To obtain the transcript, please contact podcast.cjs@gmail.com. It’s that time of year again, when we have the pleasure of interviewing and selecting our future colleagues. We are, of course, talking about the CaRMS interview process. Most of our listeners will know that CaRMS stands for Canadian Resident Matching Service. Interviews are well under…

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e142-masterclass-dennis-kim-trauma-icu-rounds-fascial-dehiscence This week, we were joined by trauma surgeon and podcaster Dr. Dennis Kim. Dr. Kim, among many other things, hosts the very successful and highly educational Trauma ICU Rounds podcast. We in Canada are lucky enough to have him back on…

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e141-journal-club-morad-hameed-cardiac-injuries In this “journal club” edition of the podcast, we are joined by the thoughtful trauma guru Dr. Hameed to talk about his paper in the Canadian Journal of Surgery (CJS). This paper, authored by Drs. Ball, Lee, Kaminsky and Hameed gets at the “heart” of…