Seminars & Events

Seminar Series

The Surgical and Interventional Sciences Program of McGill and the Injury Repair Recovery Program (IRR) of the RI-MUHC bring you a series of seminars online. This event takes place via Zoom on Tuesday afternoons from 1pm to 2:30pm to present the research of eminent speakers. At the same time, these seminars give students an opportunity to present their own preliminary data and the possibility to attend a short discussion session with specialists in the field.

We have over 50 researchers and 220 graduate students who work on outcomes, basic science and clinical research. Our main concentrations are in cardiac and vascular, general surgery, orthopedics, plastics, urology and thoracic.

Special thanks to Muskan Alad, the moderator for student presentations.

Past Seminar Series

Fall 2023 & Winter 2024

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title
Upcoming Seminars Winter 2024

Past Seminars Winter 2024
April 9	Joseph W. Freeman, PhD Professor and Graduate Program Director Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University	"Novel, Bioactive Scaffolds for Vascularized Bone Tissue Engineering"
April 2	Ebru Oral, PhD Assistant Professor, Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at Harvard Medical School,	"Engineering Therapeutic Joint Implants"
March 26	Melica N. Brodeur, MD, MSc, FRCSC Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Department of Oncology, McGill University Attending Gynecologic Oncologist, Jewish General Hospital Principal Investigator, Jewish General Hospital & Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research	"Modulating chromatin remodeling as a strategy to reverse immune evasion in ovarian cancer"
March 19	Bettina Willie, PhD Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences, McGill University Investigator, Shriners Hospitals for Children Associate Member, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Surgery and Department of Pediatric Surgery David Bertrand, PhD c	"Bone adaptation to mechanical loading and osteogenesis imperfecta"
March 12	Devina Purmessur (Walter), PhD Associate Professor (Tenured) and Associate Chair of Graduate studies College of Engineering Innovation Scholar Department of Biomedical Engineering Department of Orthopaedics The Ohio State University	"Clinically relevant models of discogenic back pain for therapeutic intervention"
February 20	Chloe Garcia, PhD Manager, Academic Programs, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at McGill University Jan Walker Fellowships Officer at Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies McGill University	"Everything you want to know about My Thesis, My Progress, and Graduate Funding"
February 13	Liane Feldman, MD CM, FACS, FRCS Edward W. Archibald Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at McGill University Surgeon-in-chief at the McGill University Health Centre Chair Department of Surgery	"Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Programs: Focusing on Recovery"
February 6	Linda Furlini, PhD Research Ethics Advisor at the CIUSSS West Central Montreal	"Research Ethics: Principles, Practices and Selected Issues"
January 30	Leah Dolgoy MScOT, erg Local Wellness Advisor for the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences -Graduate Students McGill Student Wellness Hub \| FMHS Graduate Studies Office Chantelle Thauvette PhD Graduate Career Advisor at McGill University's Career Planning Service	"Life Beyond Thesis"
January 23	Amanda Wheatley Liaison Librarian for Management, Business, and Entrepreneurship Outreach and Engagement Coordinator at the McGill Libraries Project Manager McGill Library’s website design Sandy Hervieux Head of the Nahum Gelber Law Library Virtual Reference Coordinator at the McGill Libraries Eleane C.B. Hamburger, PhDc	"Using AI Tools for Research" “Adjuvant Therapy Using Senolytic Drugs to Prevent Breast-to-Bone Metastasis”
Past Seminars Fall 2023
December 5	Stephen D. Waldman, PhD, PEng, FIOR Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University Associate Dean (Research and External Partnerships), Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science Co-Director, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology (iBEST)	"The Effect of Nutrient Metabolism on Cartilaginous Tissue Formation "
November 28	Andrea Quaiattini, MA, MLIS Assistant Librarian Liaison for medical specialties, postgraduate medical education, Indigenous health Associate member Institute of Health Sciences Education Schulich Library of Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering, McGill University Zanib Nafees, PhD candidate	"Optimize Your Search – Tools and Techniques for Searching the Experimental Surgical Literature" "Adaptation, translation, and validation of a patient-reported experience measure for children and young people for the Canadian context"
November 21	Pierre Moffatt, PhD Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Human Genetics of McGill University Investigator at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Fabio Mendes Botelho Filho (PhD c)	"An overview of the bone-specific BRIL protein in skeletal health and disease" “Improving Pediatric Trauma by Teaching Non-technical Skills”
November 14	Linda Furlini, PhD Research Ethics Advisor at the CIUSSS West Central Montreal	"The Research Ethics Board: Its Role and Its Expectations"
November 7	Ahmad Haidar	"Diabetes technologies, insulin dosing algorithms, and adjunctive therapies for type 1 diabetes"
October 31	James Mehta, B.Eng, MBA Technology Transfer Manager Innovation + Partnerships McGill University \| Office of the Vice-Principle (Research & Innovation)	"Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer at McGill"
October 24	Caroline Hoemann, PhD Professor, Department of Bioengineering, George Mason University SciTech campus in Manassas, Northern Virginia Akshay Charan Department of Bioengineering Dr. Hoemann's Lab, George Mason University	"Injury-induced remodeling and regeneration of hard and soft tissue interfaces" "Investigation of Cartilage-Bone Interface Remodeling via Quantitative Ultrasound"
October 17	Fabrisia Ambrosio, PhD, MPT Associate Professor, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School Inaugural Director of the Spaulding Research Institute’s Atlantic Charter Discovery Center for Musculoskeletal Research	"Measuring and Manipulating Rejuvenating Signals in Extracellular Vesicles Through Engineering and Exercise"
October 3	Patrick Ippersiel, PhD, M.Cl.PT, FCAMPT Post-doctoral fellow University of Montreal, School of Kinesiology and Physical Activity Faculty Lecturer (Professional) McGill University, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy Fellow of the Canadian Association of Manipulative Physiotherapists (FCAMPT)	"Gait Analysis in Clinical Populations: Moving from the Lab to Real-world Environments"
September 26	Julián Emanuel Varas Cohen MD, MS, SAGES, ASE General Surgeon and Associate Professor Surgical Division, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Chile Vice Chair of Simulation Catholic University Centre for Experimental Surgery and Simulation Miranda Bassal (MSc c)	"Advanced Surgical Simulation" “Axillary Management in Breast Cancer Patients with Nonpalpable but Histologically-Proven Lymph Node Metastasis”
September 19	Gerald Fried, MDCM, FRCSC, FACS, FCAHS, MSC Professor of Surgery Associate Dean for Education Technology & Innovation Director, Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning McGill University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences	"Transforming Surgical Education in the Era of Image-Guided Surgery"

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Fall 2023 & Winter 2024

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