Shannon Fraser

Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor
Surgical Foundations Competency Committee Chair

Shannon Fraser
Contact Information
Email address: 
shannon.fraser [at] mcgill.ca
Location: 
Jewish General Hospital (JGH)
Office: 
Pav. A - 510
Division: 
General surgery
Hospital title: 
Chief, Division of General Surgery- JGH
Medical Director Command Center – CIUSSS CODI
Degree(s): 

B.Sc., M.Sc. (Zoo), M.D., M.Sc. (Exp. Surg.)

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • MIS Fellowship, McGill
  • FACS
  • Tomlinson Award 2005-09
  • Kathryn Rolph Award 2010
  • Outstanding Teacher Post Graduate Education Award 2011
  • Canadian Certified Physician Executive – Canadian Society of Physician Leaders
Clinical Interests: 

Acute care surgery, Abdominal wall reconstruction, Upper GI and solid organ minimally invasive surgery

Language(s) spoken: 
English
French
Biography: 

Dr. Shannon Fraser is the Chief of General Surgery at the Jewish General Hospital, as well as the Medical Director of the C4: Command Center at the CIUSSS CODI. Her experience lies in triad leadership and governance structure development, currently being applied for Digital Health Initiatives such as the C4: Command Center and patient flow. Her passion is optimization of patient care: championing the introduction of NSQIP at the LGH, while she was concomitantly chief of surgery (2013-17), as the first community hospital in Quebec to participate. Currently she is developing digital quality performance dashboards for patient flow, director report cards, digital tool development for peri-operative assessments, as well as multidisciplinary/multi-site patient order set development and deployment.

Selected publications: 

http://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13427

https://caissesante.ca/tableau-de-bord-quotidien-du-flux-des-patients/

https://www.canhealth.com/2021/04/30/command-centre-in-montreal-monitors-an-entire-region/

Fraser SA, Klassen DR, Feldman LS, Ghitulescu GA, Stanbridge D, Fried GM: Evaluating Laparoscopic Skills: Setting the Pass/Fail Score for the MISTELS System. Surgical Endoscopy 2003; 17:964-67.

Fraser SA, Feldman LS, Stanbridge D, Fried GM: Characterizing the Learning Curve for a Laparoscopic Task. Surgical Endoscopy On-line first DOI: 10.1007/s00464-005-0150-5, 2005; 19(12) 1572-8.

Precare patient education multilingual animated videos http://precare.ca/: JGH Day Surgery, Emergency Recovery, Hernia, co-author Appendectomy and Cholecystectomy, RocklandMD Day Surgery

 

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