The career path of everyone is quite unique based on the goals and the choices we make, and success can take time to unfold. My career choices have been greatly influenced by remarkable mentors and opportunities. Reciprocally I have had the pleasure, as a faculty member, department chair, and medical school dean to mentor promising young physicians and scientists to launch successful careers. We need to continue to attract physicians and scientists to academic medicine to ensure that our field continues to innovate and improve the lives of our patients. To influence positive change, we must stay relentlessly focused and have faith that success will come.
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Orthop Surg
January 2025
Department of Orthopaedics, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Objective: As an effective treatment for spinal metastasis (SM), ERAS protocol can significantly reduce the length of hospital stay and complications in patients. Establishing an ERAS program for perioperative care after SM surgery is a clinical problem that needs to be addressed urgently. We aimed to develop an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) program and Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) that conferred clinical benefit to patients with SM and made it relatively easy to manage the condition.
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January 2025
Vice-Chair of Quality and Innovation in the DFCM at U of T; Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at U of T; Scientist in the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions at St Michael's Hospital; and a staff physician in the DFCM at St Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto.
Objective: To understand the role of primary care in the COVID-19 pandemic to provide insight into its functioning and inform potential reforms.
Composition Of The Committee: The now dissolved Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table (Science Table) was formed in July 2020 to provide decision makers and the public with a synthesis of rapidly evolving evidence related to COVID-19. The Science Table was based at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and supported by Public Health Ontario.
Can Fam Physician
January 2025
Assistant Professor in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto, Scientist at Women's College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care in Toronto, Investigator with the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network, and Adjunct Scientist at ICES.
Objective: To understand the possible association between media coverage and changes in the dispensation of doxylamine-pyridoxine in Canada.
Design: Cross-sectional time-series analysis using data from the IQVIA CompuScript database.
Setting: Ten Canadian provinces.
J Med Philos
January 2025
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The longstanding view of doctors as scientists has been an emphasis in the MCAT and medical school training. However, the AAMC recommended recognizing the importance of social and behavioral science for medicine. There is also a growing realization that being a smart problem solver and the physician as scientist model emphasizes a cold cognitive problem-solving paradigm that overlooks other human capacities that may be critical to medical reasoning and decision-making.
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January 2025
Institute of Medical Science, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Importance: Secondary lymphedema is a common, harmful side effect of breast cancer treatment. Robust risk models that are externally validated are needed to facilitate clinical translation. A published risk model used 5 accessible clinical factors to predict the development of breast cancer-related lymphedema; this model included a patient's mammographic breast density as a novel predictive factor.
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