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Surgical Department of Surgery Newsletter Frontiers Quarter One 2016 SURGICAL DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY NEWSLETTER FRONTIERS QUARTER ONE 2016 TECHNOLOGY & RESOURCES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA RAY RAJOTTE SURGICAL MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE S.M.R.I. GETS A NEW NAME AND WE LOOK AT THE HISTORY ALSO IN THIS ISSUE OF THE INSTITUTE • MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR • ADVANCING THE EDMONTON PROTOCOL • PROFILING THE DIVISION OF ANATOMY • RESEARCH & EDUCATION DAY REVIEWS • WELCOMING OUR NEWEST SURGEONS SURGICAL FRONTIERS Surgical Frontiers is published by the University of Alberta’s Department of Surgery IN THIS ISSUE OUR OBJECTIVE 1 - MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR DR. DOUGLAS HEDDEN’S MESSAGE TO THE DEPARTMENT To profile the department’s initiatives, activities and accomplishments for the benefit of our staff, alumni, friends and community 2 - DIVISION SPOTLIGHT: ANATOMY A CLOSER LOOK AT OUR NEWEST DIVISION CONTACT Department of Surgery - University of Alberta 3 - S.M.R.I. TO DON NEW MONIKER 2D - Walter Mackenzie Centre IN HONOUR OF DR. RAY RAJOTTE, SMRI GETS A NEW NAME 8440 - 112 Street Edmonton, AB 4 - EDUCATION DAY AND WINE & CHEESE Canada T6G 2B7 A LOOK BACK AT HOW WE CLOSED OUT 2015 surgery.ualberta.ca 5 - NEW SURGEON WELCOME EDITOR LEARN A BIT ABOUT OUR NEWEST SURGEONS Mark W. Regier 6 - MEETINGS OF THE MINDS REVIEWING SEVERAL RECENT RESEARCH AND EDUCATION DAYS CONTRIBUTORS Allison Dragsten Dr. Douglas Hedden 8 - ALBERTA CELL THERAPY MANUFACTURING Amy Hewko AN IN DEPTH VIEW AT THE ONLY GMP FACILITY IN WESTERN CANADA Kalyn McIntyre Holly Millin Ross Neitz 9 - ADVANCING THE EDMONTON PROTOCOL Greg Olson HOW SYNTHETIC ANTIFREEZE IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE Mark W. Regier Richard Siemens 10 - S.M.R.I. - A BRIEF HISTORY Peggy Yin TAKING A LOOK BACK AT THE STORIED HISTORY OF SMRI ON THE COVER 11 - SURGICAL SIMULATION RESEARCH LABS Mary Jo Fell FIND OUT HOW RESEARCHERS ARE IMPROVING SURGERY Communications Associate Alberta Diabetes Institute Photo by: 12 - FOCUS ON EDUCATION Richard Siemens GET UP-TO-DATE ON RECENT EDUCATION NEWS 13 - STAYING IN THE KNOW STAFF UPDATES, AWARDS, IMPORTANT DATES AND MEMORIAMS MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR I AM VERY PLEASED TO WELCOME work tirelessly to ensure we can all YOU TO ANOTHER YEAR IN THE stay sharp and up to date on best DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY. practices. Recently, the Division of 2016 brings with it change and new Plastic Surgery sponsored a plastic beginnings, but also ushers with surgery education day that was it pause and cause for reflection. attended by over 300 people, and I 2015 was a good year for us in wish to highlight their success and surgery and I am proud of all that congratulate their efforts. we accomplished. I sincerely look forward to seeing how we can We began 2016 with our annual continue to improve on our already division directors meeting at Pigeon strong efforts, and meet our full Lake (henceforth known as Surgical potential as a department. Executive Committee meetings). Many great ideas were tossed We closed out 2015 with two around amidst vigorous discussion, big events in the form of the and I look forward to following up department’s annual education with the stakeholders involved to day as well as the holiday wine ensure that we follow through with and cheese party. It was during our objectives. Also during our the latter that we welcomed our retreat, we announced that Dr. Ken newest members who joined us Stewart has been appointed as during the year. Both events were Clerkship Coordinator for the Year 3 well received. I would like to thank General Surgery clerkship. Ken is a Jason R. Frank MD MA(Ed) FRCPC, valued member of the Department Director, Specialty Education, of Surgery and I have supreme Strategy, and Standards, Office of confidence in what he will do with the Specialty Education, Royal College of position. Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, for joining us as our keynote speaker I would like to close my first address for the education day, where we of 2016 by highlighting CaRMS. As discussed competency by design and I write this, we are currently in workforce & career planning. I would the midst of interviews, and I am Douglas M. Hedden, MD FRCSC also like to take this opportunity pleased on so many levels. Those to once again welcome our new who have volunteered their time with Walter Stirling Anderson surgeons, Dr. Deng Mapiour (General interviews and tours, I thank you. To Professor and Chair Surgery), Dr. Vanessa Fawcett our faculty and staff who consistently (General Surgery), and Dr. Richard strive to make our education Department of Surgery McLeod (Orthopedic Surgery) to the programs of the highest caliber, you Department of Surgery. have my sincere thanks as well. We Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry are all a part of something that is University of Alberta As usual, we had a number of bigger than any individual and I am research and education days take eager to watch those elements come place throughout the divisions this together as the year presses on as past year. A special thank you to all they have done so many times before. the event organizers and staff who 1 THE DIVISION OF ANATOMY IS A RELATIVE NEWCOMER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY. Dean Lorne Tyrell originally established the Division in 1999 by the dissolution DIVISION SPOTLIGHT of the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy into the Department of Cell Biology and the free-standing Division of Anatomy. The Division of Anatomy officially joined the Department of Surgery in 2014 under the direction of Dean Douglas Miller. ANATOMYBY KALYN MCINTYRE The Division was created primarily to address the Residents and Fellows, offering comprehensive reviews in educational needs of the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry; Anatomy to a broad range of clinical disciplines. specifically, the teaching of the anatomical sciences to medical and dental students, as well as students from the The Division has consistently maintained high standards of allied health sciences, at the undergraduate, graduate and excellence for teaching since our inception. We have won postgraduate levels. In addition, the Division was charged many teaching awards including the Students Union Award with providing educational leadership in teaching the for Leadership in Undergraduate Teaching (SALUTE, U of anatomical sciences across the U of A campus and raising A), the Unit Teaching Award (U of A) and numerous Teacher the profile of anatomy teaching at this university through of the Year and Excellence in Teaching awards (Medical scholarship and the excellence of its teaching programs. Students Association). We have demonstrated imaginative and innovative approaches to our educational programs While the Division was primarily established as a teaching in keeping with the changing philosophy of curriculum division, independent and collaborative research in the content delivery with an emphasis toward a self-directed, anatomy-related disciplines, as well as in educational student-centered, problem-solving approach to learning. methods and novel educational software, was a strongly encouraged and supported secondary mandate. In addition to our teaching activities, the faculty in the Division are actively involved in individual and The Division currently consists of 5 full-time faculty collaborative educational and discipline-based research. members (1 Professor, Dr. Anil Walji; 3 Associate Given our small size and our primary commitment to Professors, Dr. Daniel Livy (Director), Dr. Pierre Lemelin, teaching-related activities, our research productivity is Dr. Christine Webber; 1 Assistant Professor, commendable and includes textbooks, book chapters, Dr. Jennifer Hocking), 1 Adjunct Professor (Dr. scientific abstracts and peer-reviewed publications Lalith Satkunam, Division of Physical Medicine in the disciplines of Anatomy, Neuroscience, and Rehabilitation, Department of Medicine), Developmental Biology, Clinical Medicine, and 1 Sessional Instructor (Dr. Lian Willetts), 2 Anthropology. technical staff (Mr. Jason Papirny and Mr. Hugh Barrett) and 1 administrative staff (Ms. Kalyn The Division is very committed to community McIntyre). engagement. We provide service to, and interact with, the University community and with the The education mandate of the Division is our raison broader community of Edmonton and extending d’être and we are proud of our teaching excellence. throughout Alberta and Western Canada. We do this Teaching represents by far the largest component mainly through the activity of our Anatomical Gifts of our time commitment. The Division provides Program. Through this program, we manage the instruction to well over 1000 undergraduate, procurement, preparation, use and disposition graduate and postgraduate students of human body donations (cadavers) to each year accounting for well over the University of Alberta. We receive 1000 half-days of direct student about 80 body donations each year contact. We provide direct for use in health sciences education teaching support for several and research. These individuals professional programs, including contacted the Anatomical Gifts the MD and DDS programs, Program sometime during their Radiation Therapy program, life and made arrangements Pathologist’s Assistant program, to have the care of their body Nursing program, and Continuing transferred to our Program upon Dental Education Programs. We their death. At the time of their also provide teaching to the pre- death, their body is transferred to professional student body at the the Division of Anatomy morgue undergraduate and graduate facilities, where it is prepared for levels. We are one of the few future use in either education Anatomy programs in Canada or research activities. to provide teaching to Medical 2 When the body has completed its service to our programs, some families prefer to attend to the disposition of the donor remains themselves, while others prefer to have the Division of Anatomy attend to this task. If the latter, the Division will arrange for cremation of the remains and subsequent interment at Westlawn Memorial Gardens. The University of Alberta has a wonderfully pastoral burial site located at Westlawn that is marked by the University flag and a monument that bears an inscription that reads: “Here lie those who, in the interest of Humanity, donated their bodies to medical education and research”.
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