News From Plastic Surgery
Photo: Meeting of the WK Lindsay Club (photo by Steve Morris, MD)
It has been a great period for the Division of Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery. On the tail end of 100% pass
rate for our senior resident group, many of the division
members travelled to Calgary for the 67th Annual
Meeting of the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons. I
love the Canadian Meeting – there is something about
the camaraderie and feeling of family as well as the high
quality of the papers and the unique social atmosphere of
the Canadian Society that makes me feel honored to be
a part of this group. Despite the rain, the meeting was a
great success thanks to the efforts of Doug Ross, Bryan
Callaghan, Gorman Louie, Lucie Lessard, Earl Campbell
and of course, Karyn Wagner.
Steve McCabe, Heather Baltzer, John Semple, Jennica Platt, Toni Zhong and
Olivia Ho
Our Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery had
a fantastic showing in Calgary, Alberta this past week.
John Phillips and Paul Binhammer represented the division
at this year’s Educational Symposium with talks on
Computer Assisted Surgery and Digital Planning. Of
the 80 abstracts accepted, our division had 28 presentations
and 6 posters. At the concurrent Canadian Plastic
Surgery Nurses Symposium, Sick Kids nurses Shannon
Ross and Christina Hughey from our 8C unit presented
our protocol for leech therapy. Tom Bell and Frank Lista
represented us on the Canadian Expert Panels on Facial
Aesthetic Surgery and Aesthetic Breast Surgery.
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Olivia Ho had a very busy time in Calgary with 3 papers
and won the best scientific paper presentation at the 33rd
Annual GAM meeting for her paper “Incidentalomas
associated with abdominal and pelvic CT angiograms for
abdominal based breast free flap reconstruction” with coauthors
Stefan Hofer and Toni Zhong.
The Educational Foundation Award for the best
Epidemiology & Biostatistics Presentation was awarded
to Jennica Platt for her paper “Regional variation in rates
of immediate breast reconstruction: It matters where you
live in Ontario” with co-authors T Zhong, AM Easson,
G Booth, R Moineddin and NN Baxter. Congratulations
to Jennica’s supervisors Toni Zhong and Nancy Baxter.
Apart from the obvious quality of her research, this type
of work has the ability to influence health care policy
and Jennica is to be congratulated on a superb job of
increasing the important profile of our specialty.
Girl Power: Olivia Ho, Heather Baltzer and Jennica Platt
The FM Woolhouse Award for the best presentation
of a clinical study by a resident was awarded to Heather
Baltzer for her presentation “MRI volumetric analysis of
breast fibroglandular tissue to assess risk of the spared nipple
in BRCA 1/2 patients who are considering prophylactic
nipple sparing mastectomy” with co –authors O Alonzo,
M Yaffe, K Metcalfe, E Warner and J Semple. Heather is
on a roll with this important piece of research and left the
meeting early to present at the American Society of Clinical
Oncology in Chicago (see Announcements).
Residents Mike Hendry, Dale Podolsky, Kathryn
Isaac, Matt Plant, Shaikhan Al-Hashmi, Matt McRae,
and Katie Armstrong as well as fellows Amy Chesney,
Guy Watts, Marc Swan, Sally Hynes, Mahsa Bigdoli
Moghaddam, William Townley, Sami Alissa, Udi
Eradand our very own Kristen Davidge representing St.
Louis rounded out a great effort from our division!
Christopher R. Forrest
Chair, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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