New Staff
New Medical Director of the Ross Tilley Burn Centre
Marc Jeschke
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The Division of Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery is very
pleased to welcome Dr. Marc
Jeschke as the new Medical
Director of the Ross Tilley
Burn Centre at the Sunnybrook
Health Sciences Centre. In
addition to his clinical role,
Dr. Jeschke will also join the
Sunnybrook Research Institute
as a Senior Scientist. His
appointment at the University
of Toronto will be as an Associate Professor in the
Department of Surgery.
Dr. Jeschke is an internationally renowned leader in burn
care and research who comes to us from the University
of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, where he was an
Associate Professor of Surgery and held the Annie Laurie
Howard Chair in Burn Surgery. His clinical work in
Texas was with the University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston Shriner's Hospital for Children where he was a
staff burn surgeon and scientist.
He has been caring for burn patients and conducting
breakthrough research in the field for nearly 20 years.
In that time has published more than 180 peer-reviewed
articles and has authored several books and chapters on
burn care. Dr. Jeschke is a highly respected educator. He
has mentored and trained more than 40 Ph.D., MD,
and other graduate students in the field of burn care and
burn-related research. He is a sought after speaker who
has lectured around the world.
Dr. Jeschke was born in Germany. He received his medical
degree from Eberhard-Karls-University in T�bingen,
Germany and his Master of Medical Science from the
University of Texas and his Ph.D. from the University of
Regensburg, Germany.
In his role as Medical Director, Dr. Jeschke will be leading
Canada's largest burn centre and will be an integral
member of the Trauma Emergency and Critical Care
program. We would like to take this opportunity to
thank Dr. Robert Cartotto for his strong leadership of
the Burn Centre as Interim Medical Director.
Paul Binhammer
Sunit Das
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The Division of Neurosurgery at St Michael's Hospital
is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Sunit
Das to its staff, and to welcome his wife, Dr Pavani
Reddy Das, and their daughter, Lakshmi, to Toronto.
Dr Das received his undergraduate degree in Literature
and Literary Studies with Highest Honors from the
University of Michigan in 1995. He studied Philosophy
at Harvard University before matriculating to
Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago,
Illinois, where he was awarded his medical degree in
2001. He then pursued a Ph.D. in neurobiology at the
National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland,
during which time he studied the biology of neural stem
cells under Zuhang Sheng and Ron McKay. His research
work was supported by the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute and by a National Research Service Award
from the NIH. Following the completion of his doctoral
studies, he entered the neurosurgical training program at
Northwestern University.
During his residency, Dr
Das was recognized with
multiple awards for his clinical,
scientific and teaching
skills, including the Goldberg
Family Trust Resident Award
and Congress of Neurological
Surgeons Resident Award.
He also received the
Northwestern University
Auxillary Board and Dixon
Translational Research Awards in support of his continued
research on neural and cancer stem cell biology
in the lab of his mentor, Dr John Kessler. He has been
recruited to St Michael's Hospital and the University of
Toronto as a surgeon-scientist.
Dr. Das's clinical interest is in the surgical management
of malignant brain tumors and tumors involving the
skull base. His laboratory in the Brain Tumor Research
Center will continue to investigate the biology of stem
cells in the normal brain and in primary brain tumors.
He will hold an adjunct appointment at the Research
Institute at The Hospital for Sick Children. He remains
deeply interested in education in the clinical and basic
sciences.
R. Loch Macdonald
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The Division of Orthopaedic Surgery is pleased to
announce the appointment of Dr. Simon Kelley to its
staff and to warmly welcome his wife, Suzanne and their
daughters, Maia and Saphia back to Toronto.
Simon received his undergraduate medical degree from
the University of Birmingham in the UK in 1997,
and after completing a year of internship, having an
ill-defined career path and a bad case of wanderlust,
felt compelled to experience life outside the UK medical
system and went overseas to work in Queensland,
Australia. There he spent a busy year working in
orthopaedics, trauma and emergency medicine. It was
also there that he developed a love for power tools and
realised that he had an inability to recall any antibiotic
that didn't begin with a "C". It was at this point that
he realised that he was destined to become an orthopaedic
surgeon. During this year he also worked as
an aeromedical physician for the Royal Flying Doctor
Service and Capricorn-9 helicopter retrieval team as
well as occasionally serving as medical superintendent
at the local aboriginal community. Sensing that his trip
back to the UK might be his last chance to quench his
thirst for travel before joining the surgical career path,
he took the rather indirect route of touring China,
Southeast Asia, India and Southern Africa over a 6
month period.
Simon Kelley with his wife Suzanne, and their daughters, Maia and Saphia
Simon undertook his basic surgical training at the
Yorkshire School of Surgery to become a Member of
the Royal College of Surgeons in 2003, dropped the
Dr. in favour of Mr., as is the tradition in the UK, and
soon after moved to Bristol in the south west to join the
higher surgical training scheme in trauma and orthopaedics.
During this 6-year training program Simon's
orthopaedic career began to take shape. He developed
a passion for children's orthopaedics, more specifically
limb lengthening, deformity correction and hip surgery.
In 2007 he was awarded the Sir Walter Mercer Gold
Medal for the most outstanding performance in the
Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS)
examination in trauma and orthopaedic surgery. This
was the largest surgical specialty examination to have
ever been held in the UK.
Not satisfied with a routine one year fellowship,
Simon spent 2 years in 4 different cities around the
world. Not such a hardship when you consider that
they often regularly place in the top 10 cities in
which to live! The first 6 months was spent as the
limb reconstruction fellow at the Royal Children's
Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. In July 2008 Simon
was honoured to be selected as the first trans-Canada
paediatric orthopaedic fellow. In this pioneering fellowship
he spent 6 months at the Hospital for Sick
Children in Toronto. He then travelled to Shriner's
Hospital for Children in Montreal for 6 months, and
finally, after driving across Canada in his long suffering
minivan, with his wife and 2 daughters, he spent
6 months at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver,
studying hip surgery and limb reconstruction and trying
to remember everything that he had learnt in his
3 previous fellowships.
Throughout his training Simon has won awards for
clinical excellence, teaching and research, has presented
his research at national and international meetings in
North America, Europe and Asia. Furthermore he has
14 articles accepted for publication and has written 7
book chapters. Simon also pioneered 2 large educational
website projects, developing a unique core regional
educational website for orthopaedic trainees in Bristol
and a large national educational website project named
ArgO for orthopaedic trainees across the UK. Simon was
selected as the British Orthopaedic Association Young
Ambassador in 2008.
In his spare time Simon enjoys his family, personal fitness,
cycling, triathlon, snowboarding, playing golf and
photography. He is an avid supporter of Bath rugby but
is unsure of which Hockey team he is to support now
that he has moved to Canada.
Simon's clinical practice will be at the Hospital for Sick
Children, focused on paediatric limb reconstruction,
limb lengthening and hip surgery, with a patient population
consisting of rare syndromes, congenital limb
deficiencies, hip dysplasia and those injured in severe
musculoskeletal trauma. He is also embarking on a
research programme by way of a PhD to investigate the
mechanisms and pathways controlling limb regeneration,
specifically the process of distraction osteogenesis
and its characteristics in different disease models.
Benjamin Alman
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