Toronto Western Hospital

Dr. Hani Amad is an assistant professor in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine and an invasive cardiologist with the University Health Network. He received his medical degree from the University of Alberta in 2002. In 2008, he finished his internal medicine and adult cardiology residency studies at the University of Toronto. At the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, he then finished a fellowship in interventional cardiology (PMCC). Dr. Amad has held numerous leadership positions in education and is passionate about medical education. The Cardiology Block of the Foundations Curriculum for first-year medical students is co-led by him. He is a member of the Adult Cardiology Residency Program Education/Examination Committee and the PMCC Cardiac Catheterization Rotation Coordinator. View Profile

At the University of Western Ontario, where he also finished his internal medicine residency, Dr. Christopher Patriquin earned his medical degree. He pursued his haematology fellowship at McMaster University, where he also continued his studies as a Clinical Scholar in complement-mediated illness. His M.Sc. in Health Research Methods concentrated on efficient trial and observational approaches in uncommon diseases. His clinical interests include the thrombotic microangiopathies (TMA) and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH). Dr. Patriquin earned honorary clinical research fellowships in TMA (University College London) and PNH in the United Kingdom in 2015. (NHS National PNH Service, St. James Hospital, Leeds). View Profile

The University of Amsterdam is where Dr. Hofer earned his medical degree in 1992. He then finished his PhD at the University Medical Center in Amsterdam's Department of Surgical Research. His one-year Microsurgery Research fellowship at the Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery at the University of Melbourne in Australia was funded by the highly prestigious Dutch Cancer Society clinical fellowship, which he received in 2000 after receiving his board certification in plastic surgery from the Netherlands. He was also the first plastic surgeon to receive this honour. From 2001 to 2007, Dr. Hofer served as the Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgical Oncology and a Full Professor in the Erasmus Medical Center's Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. View Profile

Joanne Bargman is a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto and a staff nephrologist at the University Health Network. She graduated from the University of Toronto with a medical degree. She spent her final year of medical school as an exchange fellow in Melbourne before attending Stanford University to complete her nephrology training. Her studies were concentrated on micropuncture and renal physiology. When she eventually made it back to Toronto, she was hired by the Toronto Western Hospital, where Dimitrios Oreopoulos educated her in peritoneal dialysis. On topics as varied as peritoneal dialysis, glomerulonephritis, and the therapy of systemic lupus erythematosus, she has given more than 700 invited lectures across the globe. She serves as the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis's 2012–2014 President, co-director of the University Health Network's combined renal-rheumatology lupus clinic, and director of peritoneal dialysis for the University Health Network in Toronto. She has been awarded the ""Silver Shovel,"" which is granted by the University of Toronto's graduating medical class to the finest lecturer throughout the undergraduate years. Also, she received the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine's Postgraduate Teaching Award, which is granted to the program's top instructor. She was selected to serve as the University of Colorado at Denver's 12th Robert Collins Visiting Lecturer in Dialysis. Both the Canadian Society of Nephrology's award for outstanding teaching and the Donald Seldin Award for excellence in nephrology from the National Kidney Foundation (US) were given to her in 2013. View Profile

Dr. Kongkham started his neurosurgery residency in Toronto in 2001 after completing medical school at the University of Toronto. He enrolled in the surgeon-scientist programme in 2004 and worked with Dr. James Rutka at the Hospital for Sick Children to complete his PhD work on the genomes and epigenetics of paediatric medulloblastoma. In 2011, he received his Ph.D. in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology from the Toronto programme and was inducted as a Member of the Royal College of Doctors and Surgeons of Canada. Dr. Kongkham started a clinical fellowship in neurosurgical oncology at the MD Anderson Cancer Institute in July 2011 and was hired as a staff member in the Division of Neurosurgery at Toronto Western Hospital in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor at The University of Toronto's Department of Surgery. The genomes and epigenetics of primary and metastatic adult brain cancers are the main topics of his research. The Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumor Research Centre at The Hospital for Sick Children houses his research facility. View Profile

Currently occupying the Greg Wilkins-Barrick Chair in International Surgery is Dr. Mark Bernstein. His research focuses on teaching surgeons how to use cutting-edge, long-lasting neurosurgical methods, most notably awake craniotomy. He is the first surgeon to have ever done this operation and taught others how to do it in numerous nations. View Profile

Dr. Hassouna is a researcher who earned a Ph.D. from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. She is still working on both clinical and fundamental research projects. Dr. Hassouna is primarily interested in the topic of neuro-urology, with a focus on the application of neurostimulation to modify urinary bladder functioning. Both male erectile dysfunction and voiding dysfunction are clinical specialties. View Profile

An orthopaedic surgeon by the name of Dr. Rod Davey practises at Toronto Western Hospital, 399 Bathurst Street, Downtown Toronto, Ontario M5T 2S8. One of the top orthopaedic surgeons in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, is Dr. Davey. He specialises in treating the musculoskeletal system, which includes the joints, bones, tendons, muscles, and ligaments, as an orthopaedic surgeon. In order to treat tumours, infections from trauma, wounds, and other problems that require such surgical intervention, he performs the required surgery. He also addresses other problems like arthritis and spine ailments. View Profile