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Dr. Caitlin Symonette, a previous resident of our Plastic Surgery program, joined the LHSC team at the Victoria Hospital campus in September. Dr.
Symonette completed her graduate training, medical school and Plastic Surgery residency at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University. She then went on to complete a Hand and Microsurgery Fellowship in Vancouver which included exposure to both adult and paediatric populations. Her clinical area of interest is general paediatric surgery, paediatric hand surgery and adult hand surgery. She also is interested in international surgical exposures and collaborations. Her specific research interests include health system optimization, clinical and patient-related outcomes of paediatric plastic surgery as well as hand surgery.