2024
COA announces new leadership
August 30, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Litchfield, Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, on being named Second President Elect for the Canadian Orthopaedic Association.A Canadian National Survey Study of Harassment in Surgery—Still a Long Way to Go
August 30, 2024
Study by Surgery members and colleagues from Otolaryngology and Neurosurgery explores the experience of harassment across genders, career stage, and specialty.Make Kids Count initiative helps Children’s Hospital at LHSC reduce surgical waitlist by 26 per cent
August 30, 2024
Children’s Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) has reduced its paediatric surgery waitlist by 26 per cent for non-urgent and non-emergent cases, thanks to funding from the Make Kids Count initiative announced by the Ontario government last summer.London Health Sciences Centre reduces cancer surgery wait times by 50 per cent
July 03, 2024
Through several focused strategies and a dedicated team effort, London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) has improved cancer surgery wait times at the Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre by 50 per cent over the past year for non-urgent and non-emergent patients.Avoiding Graft Failure: Lessons Learned from the Stability Trial
July 02, 2024
Dr. Alan Getgood, Associate Professor, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, reviews the findings from the International Society of Arthroscopic Knee Surgery and Orthopedic Sports Medicine sponsored Stability Study.Identifying Bladder Phenotypes After Spinal Cord Injury With Unsupervised Machine Learning: A New Way to Examine Urinary Symptoms and Quality of Life
July 02, 2024
Dr. Blayne Welk, Professor, Division of Urology, assesses the association with urinary symptoms resulting from spinal cord injury and quality of life.Alumni of Distinction Award Recipients 2024
June 21, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Muriel Brackstone, Professor & Chair/Chief, Division of General Surgery, and Dr. Sukhmeet Singh Sachal, PGY 1, Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, on being awarded an Alumni of Distinction Award from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry.Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Canadian Cardiovascular Society Guidelines in Minimizing Cardiac Events After Total Hip Arthroplasty
June 13, 2024
Orthopaedic Surgery members analyze the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) guidelines for routine postoperative troponin testing after elective total hip arthroplasty (THA) to reduce the mortality rate resulting from myocardial injury.A Social Media Blueprint - Understanding What Makes the Optimal Social Media Account for Paediatric Surgical Families
May 17, 2024
The Paediatric Surgery team looks at how to better understand the social media habits of parents of paediatric surgery patients and improve knowledge dissemination.Reducing the risk of organ transplants.
April 26, 2024
Dr. Alp Sener, Chair/Chief and Professor, Urology, and the inaugural Andrew Lazarovits Chair in Immunobiology and Transplantation, talks to CBC London Morning about the complexities of organ transplants and new methods to ensure success.The Intersection of Family Planning and Perception of Career Advancement in General Surgery
April 19, 2024
Study by the paediatric general surgery team study highlights disparities in present day general surgery training to tackle longstanding gender inequities.The Power List: Health Care
April 19, 2024
Maclean's magazine names Dr. George Athwal, Professor, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, as one of the top Canadians shaping health care.Antiplatelets versus anticoagulants in the treatment of blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI) - A systematic review and meta-analysis
March 28, 2024
Trauma team compares treatment strategies to lower risks of stroke and bleeding complications caused by blunt traumas.SDG Week Canada
February 12, 2024
SDG Week Canada is a national collaboration from March 4 - 8, 2024 to increase awareness and engagement with the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on university and college campuses.Celebrating Resident Awareness Week
February 07, 2024
At London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), residents play a critical role in delivering quality care to patients, advancing research and innovation, and training future healthcare providers. Each February, Resident Awareness Week is recognized as a celebration of the important contributions of medical residents to hospitals across the country.Next-generation 3D imaging has potential to revolutionize shoulder replacement surgery
February 02, 2024
Mixed reality technology in the operating room just got smarter, and surgeons even more precise.Survival benefit of neoadjuvant FOLFIRINOX for patients with borderline resectable pancreatic cancer.
February 01, 2024
General Surgery members and Medical Oncology colleagues assess perioperative and oncological outcomes in pancreatic cancer patients undergoing surgical treatment.LHSC making major headway in its surgical backlog
January 09, 2024
LHSC is less than 1,400 cases away from clearing an equivalent volume of cases that were added to the surgical backlog during the pandemic period.A Spotlight on LHSC’s Bariatric Centre of Excellence
January 09, 2024
Learn more about University Hospital's Bariatric Centre of Excellence, one of only 10 such centres in the province that are part of the Ontario Bariatric Network (OBN). The network was established in 2009 to help make treatment for those with obesity more accessible and reduce the need to travel out of province for this life-changing surgery.
