Welcome New Surgical Residents
A fantastic cohort of new residents has beaten the competition to enter the Gallie Program in July 2009. They
have diverse and interesting backgrounds.
The Department of Surgery continues to grow with
expansion of the number of trainees in many of the
surgical specialties. The expertise and enthusiasm of
their teachers and resident colleagues promise that our
residents will be the best taught ever.
Forty-Five residents have entered the department - 33
male and 12 female. Thirty-four have come through
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match and are Canadian Medical School graduates. Ten have come through the IMG match and
include Canadians who have studied abroad and are
returning to Canada for their surgical training as well as
Permanent Residents who have obtained their MD in
other countries and will be practicing in Ontario. One is
a "visa trainee," who will return to their home country
following training. What a great gift this diverse group of
bright young minds brings to our department. Welcome
new residents!
Ronald H. Levine, MD
Director, Postgraduate Surgical Education
Department of Surgery
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![Shaikhan Al Hashmi](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/AlHashmi.jpg)
Shaikhan Al Hashmi, P/S |
![Ilyas Aleem](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Aleem.jpg)
Ilyas Aleem, O/S |
![Heather Baltzer](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Baltzer.jpg)
Heather Baltzer, P/S |
![Reena Baweja](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Baweja.jpg)
Reena Baweja, G/S |
![Bimal Bhindi](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Bhindi.jpg)
Bimal Bhindi, U/S |
![Paul Carter](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Carter.jpg)
Paul Carter, P/S |
![Wiley Chung](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Chung.jpg)
Wiley Chung, G/S |
![Jossie Swett Cosentino](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Cosentino.jpg)
Jossie Swett Cosentino, G/S |
![D. Rachel Fels Elliot](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Fels.jpg)
D. Rachel Fels Elliot, G/S |
![Simon Harris](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Harris.jpg)
Simon Harris, O/S |
![Olivia Ho](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Ho.jpg)
Olivia Ho, P/S |
![Justin Hodgins](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Hodgins.jpg)
Justin Hodgins, O/S |
![David Horovitz](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Horovitz.jpg)
David Horovitz, U/S |
![USumit Jhas](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Jhas.jpg)
Sumit Jhas, N/S |
![Arash Kashfi](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Kashfi.jpg)
Arash Kashfi, G/S |
![Ahmed Kayssi](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Kayssi.jpg)
Ahmed Kayssi, G/S |
![Karineh Kazazian](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Kazazian.jpg)
Karineh Kazazian, G/S |
![Laura Kember](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Kember.jpg)
Laura Kember, O/S |
![Osama Khan](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Khan.jpg)
Osama Khan, N/S |
![Teresa Langan](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Langan.jpg)
Teresa Langan, N/S |
![Jeremie Larouche](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Larouche.jpg)
Jeremie Larouche, O/S |
![Justin Lee](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Lee.jpg)
Justin Lee, U/S |
![Tim Leroux](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Leroux.jpg)
Tim Leroux, O/S |
![Kenneth Leung](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Leung.jpg)
Kenneth Leung, G/S |
![Clifford Lin](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Lin.jpg)
Clifford Lin, O/S |
![Aaron Lo](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Lo.jpg)
Aaron Lo, G/S |
![Grace Ma](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Ma.jpg)
Grace Ma, G/S |
![Matthew McRae](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/McRae.jpg)
Matthew McRae, P/S |
![Safraz Mohammed](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Mohammed.jpg)
Safraz Mohammed, N/S |
![Padraic O�Malley](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/OMalley.jpg)
Padraic O'Malley, U/S |
![Emily Partridge](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Partridge.jpg)
Emily Partridge, G/S |
![Jennica Platt](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Platt.jpg)
Jennica Platt, P/S |
![Jamie Purzne](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Purzner.jpg)
Jamie Purzner, N/S |
![Hadi Sayedi Roshkhar](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Roshkhar.jpg)
Hadi Sayedi Roshkhar, O/S |
![Wilfred Tam](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Tam.jpg)
Wilfred Tam, U/S |
![Sebastian Tomescu](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Tomescu.jpg)
Sebastian Tomescu, O/S |
![David Walmsley](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Walmsley.jpg)
David Walmsley, O/S |
![David Wang](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Wang.jpg)
David Wang, G/S |
![Cameron Yau](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Yau.jpg)
Cameron Yau, O/S |
![Ting Zhang](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Zhang.jpg)
Ting Zhang, C/S |
![Nathan Zilbert](Shared/Images/Fall_2009/Zilbert.jpg)
Nathan Zilbert, G/S |
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Not pictured: Nathalie Adabachi - G/S, Herman Dhotar - O/S, Amir Khoshbin - O/S, Sydney Wong - G/S, Roman Zassoko - G/S |
From "Norman Bethune", by Adrienne Clarkson
Penguin Canada, 2009, pp39-41.
Right after high school, Bethune, who loved sports
and wasn't particularly interested in things intellectual,
went to work for a year in a lumber camp
in Algoma, in northern Ontario. It consolidated his
love for the woods. Nature and the Canadian Shield
represented to him not simply pleasant holidays,
they were a fact of his life; he was born close to the
wilderness and he could contend with it. A logging
camp was nevertheless a tough place to live. He was a
minister's son, and for the first time he learned what
it was like to live day to day working in very dangerous
circumstances - logging in deep snow, dragging
logs to the river where they would form a huge boom,
sawing the trees into lengths, rolling on logs, and
giving orders in difficult situations to teams of immigrant
men who did not speak English.
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He took various jobs, interrupting his education for
up to a year at a time. He taught for six months in a oneroom
school in the village of Edgeley, near Toronto, and
earned $269, which was quite a sum of money. This,
together with the logging money, financed his medical
studies at the University of Toronto.
Then he went to work in camps with a specific
purpose: Bethune taught his fellow workers reading
and writing in the evenings as a member of Frontier
College. Alfred Fitzpatrick had founded the movement
in 1899.... 'To many of the foreigners, the
labourer-teacher is a new type of Canadian - clean
in life and lip, yet straightforward and doing a man's
work alongside them,' wrote Fitzpatrick. 'He stands
for staunch Canadianism and British institutions,
and teaches by example and daily wear and tear. He
is measured by his worth, not his theory. Quietly and
unassumedly, he is a molder of Canadianism.'
For more, see Summer 2009 article on Adrienne Clarkson's book.
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