New Staff
The Department of Surgery warmly welcomes the following individuals who have joined
our Department.
Claudio Cinà
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It is a pleasure to announce the
recruitment of Claudio Cinà
as Division Head of Vascular
Surgery and Professor of Surgery
at St Michael's Hospital, the
University of Toronto.
Dr. Cinà was born in Italy
where he completed classic
studies in Italian, Latin and
Greek literature, and graduated
summa cum laude from medical
school from the University of Catania. After completing
his training in general surgery, he decided to
pursue an academic career in vascular surgery. After one
year as research and clinical fellow at the Massachusetts
General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Claudio
completed his fellowship training in vascular surgery
at the University of Toronto, and undertook additional
training in cardiovascular surgery at Baylor University
with Michael DeBakey and Stanley Crawford where he
trained in surgical repair of diseases of the thoracoabdominal
aorta. In 2004 Claudio was granted a sabbatical to learn endovascular surgery and completed a fellowship
in the Netherlands with Dr. E. Verhoeven, a leader
in endovascular surgery, including the deployment of
fenestrated and branched endografts.
Dr. Cinà's two greatest clinical contributions to health
care are the development of the Thoracoabdominal
Aortic Aneurysm (TAAA) Surgery Programme, and of
the Institute for Support, Investigation and Technological
Evolution (InSITE) of Endovascular Therapies at
McMaster University.
Ori D. Rotstein
Surgeon-in-Chief, St. Michael's Hospital
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Kazuhiro Yasufuku
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Kazuhiro Yasufuku has
been appointed to the position
of Assistant Professor in
the Department of Surgery,
Division of Thoracic Surgery at
the University Health Network
as of September 2008. Kazuhiro
trained in general surgery
and thoracic surgery at Chiba
University School of Medicine
in Japan. He subsequently
obtained a PhD from the Graduate School of Medicine,
Chiba University and Indiana University, USA. He
subsequently completed a Lung Transplant Clinical
Fellowship in the Toronto Lung Transplant Program at
the Toronto General Hospital. Kazuhiro has worked as
an attending surgeon at Chiba University since 2003.
Kazuhiro is an internationally known thoracic surgeon
with specific expertise in minimally invasive thoracic
surgery and minimally invasive diagnostic procedures.
Over the years, he has been a leader in the field
of endobronchial ultrasound. He developed the Convex
Probe Endobronchial Ultrasound in collaboration with
Olympus and has successfully introduced the clinical
application of Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial
needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) in the management
of lung cancer.
Dr. Yasufuku has published numerous peer-reviewed
journals and has lectured throughout the world on a
variety of topics related to minimal invasive thoracic
surgery and interventional pulmonology. His clinical areas of activity will be in thoracic surgery and lung
transplantation. Currently Dr. Yasufuku is exploring the
utility of minimally invasive techniques for molecular
staging and therapies in Thoracic Oncology. He will also
lead the Thoracic Interventional Suite at UHN, which
will be a unique teaching and technology development
centre, providing leading edge thoracic diagnostic and
therapeutic procedures.
Shaf Keshavjee
University Division Chair, Thoracic Surgery
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