New This Year!
A half-day session will be offered on Saturday, November 17 at the surgical skills lab. This session will highlight basic and advanced Minimally Invasive Surgery techniques, as well as provide workstations to enhance suturing, ventral hernia and single port (SILS) skills. Don’t miss out on this hands-on skill lab, a new feature to a popular program.
Topics
- Tips and tricks for minimally invasive solid organ surgery
- Foregut surgery: What’s new in 2012
- Getting out of trouble: Complications of MIS
- New MIS technologies including Robots, NOTES, SILS, POEM: What’s a Canadian general surgeon supposed to do?
- State-of-the-art updates by leading faculty at the University of Toronto
Course Directors
Allan Okrainec, MDCM, MHPE, FACS, FRCSC
Director Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship Program
Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Toronto
Deputy Head, Division of General Surgery
University Health Network
David R. Urbach, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS
Professor of Surgery and Health Policy,
Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Scientist, Cancer Care Ontario and the
Division of Clinical Decision Making and Health Care,
Toronto General Hospital Research Institute
Adjunct Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
John A. Hagen, MD, FRCSC
Assistant Professor, Division of General Surgery
University of Toronto
Minimally Invasive Surgery Group
Humber River Regional Hospital