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ABSTRACTS

Call for Abstracts Submissions is Now Closed. 

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Abstract Submission & Presentation Information

The various paper, poster, and video presentations all contribute to the conference’s dynamic and interactive learning environment. This is your opportunity to share your research with other national and international surgical professionals!

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f you have any questions, please contact the Canadian Surgery Forum by email at csf@cags-accg.ca.

CSF 2025 Abstract Winners

To view abstracts selected as abstracts presented at the CSF 2025, follow this link.

Video Winner

CON_CABPS-15: Single-Stage Conversion of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass to Duodenal Switch for Weight Regain: A Single Institution Experience. Dr. Yung Lee

 

Paper per Sub-Specialty

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  • CAGS 04: Comparing Post-Operative Healthcare Utilization between Immigrants and Non-Immigrants Undergoing Emergency General Surgery in British Columbia. Dr. Michael Guo

  • CAGS-10: Developing and Implementing a Novel Planetary Health Menu for a Tertiary Care Hospital.  Dr. Annie Lalande

  • CSCRS-08: Impact of a Patient-Centered Program for Low Anterior Resection Syndrome: A Multicenter, Single-Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial.  Dr.Richard Garfinkle

  • CSCRS-12: Patient, provider and institutional factors associated with wait time benchmarks for colorectal cancer surgery: a population-based cross-sectional study. Dr. Adom Bondzi-Simpson

  • CHS-04: Quality Review of Ventral Hernia Repair Operative Reports. Dr. Ahmed Karmustaji

  • CON_CABPS-04 : The First Canadian Academic Endobariatric Program: Initial Experience with Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty. Dr.Intekhab Hossain

  • CAGS ACS/TAC – 07: Towards Informatics-Driven Decision-Making and Rescue: An Ethnographic Evaluation of Electronic Health Record Use in Acute Care Surgery. Dr. Alex Lee

  • CATS 21Lighting Oral: Holographic Surgical Education: Development of a Comprehensive Case-Based MR Thoracic Surgery Atlas. Dr.Ge Shi

  • CATS 03- Podium Paper: Predicting Local Recurrence After Segmentectomy for Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Dr. Christopher Griffiths

Posters:

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  • CAGS-42: Automated Research Coordination for Clinical Trials: A Study Within a Trial.  Dr. Tyler McKechnie

  • CSCRS – 36: Optimal Timing for Diverting Loop Ileostomy Reversal: A Single Centre Retrospective Review.  Dr. Raphaëlla Rosebush-Mercier

  • CSCRS-45: Improving rectal cancer care by developing an automated artificial intelligence algorithm for magnetic resonance imaging interpretation: a pilot study. Dr. Susan Muncner

  • CON_CABS-10: The Analgesic Efficacy of Dexamethasone as an Adjunct to Bupivacaine in Laparoscopic Transversus Abdominis Plane Block in Single-Anastomosis Duodeno-Ileal Bypass with Sleeve Gastrectomy. Dr. Ahmed Karmustaji

  • CHPBA – 17: Examination of the Association Between Estimated Blood Loss and Hepatobiliary Outcomes—Working Towards a Definition of Minimal Clinically Significant Difference. Dr. Tiago Ribeiro

  • CSSO-14:  Immigrant Women’s Breast Cancer Treatment Experience in a Canadian Healthcare System: A Qualitative Study. Dr. Ashley Eom

  •  CSSO-16: Breast Surgery Education and Curriculum Components in Canadian General Surgery Residency Training: A National Delphi Study. Dr.Joanna Ryan

  • CAGS-ACS/Trauma – 12: Evaluating the Acute Care Surgery Service Operating Room Efficiency at St Joseph’s Healthcare Centre. Dr. Sabrina Wang

To review all of the Abstracts Submissions presented at the CSF 2025, please follow this link. Feel free to search authors name to find the submission.

CSF 2024 Abstract Winners

To view abstracts selected as Papers at CSF 2024 follow this link and to view the abstracts selected as Posters and Videos submissions follow this link. 

Top Paper Winner

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CHPBA - 04: Evaluating the Safety and Tumorigenicity of Stem Cell-derived Islet Cells in Immunodeficient Mice. Dr. Zofia Czarnecka

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Papers per Sub-Specialty

  • CAGS-01: The Green Thumb of Endoscopy: Switching from Sterile Water to Tap Water. Dr. Christine Li

  • CATS-03 (Ginsberg Award): Same Day Discharge After Pulmonary Wedge Resection: A Cost-Utility Analysis. Dr. Cohen Chaulk

  • CSCRS-1: The Association between Preoperative Anemia and Healthcare Resource Use and Outcomes After Colorectal Surgery: A Population-Based Cohort Study. Dr. Lily Park

  • CSSO-07: Predictive Value of C-Reactive Protein for Infectious Complications after Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy: A Single-Center Prospective Study. Dr. Janyssa Charbonneau.

  • CHS-04: The Modified Frailty Index Predicts Postoperative Morbidity in Elective Hernia Repair Patients: Analysis of the National Inpatient Sample 2015-2019.  Dr. Jigish Khamar

  • CAGS - ACS/TAC - 08: Hospital-level Variation in Emergency General Surgery Outcomes.  Dr. Jordan Nantais

  • CON_CABPS - 04: Weight Specific Prehabilitation in Elective Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty. Dr. Brianna Brand

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Video Winners 

•    CAGS-67: Endoscopic Management of a Sleeve Gastrectomy Leak. Dr. Irtaza Tahir

 

Poster Winners per Sub-Specialty

  • CAGS-26:    Fragility index for Extended Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis Following Abdominopelvic Surgery: A Methodological Survey. Dr. Ruxandra Bogdan

  • CAGS-46: Establishing Quality of Care Indicators for Thyroid Cancer Management: A Scoping Review. Dr. Michelle Kwon 

  • CSCRS-28: Total Neoadjuvant Therapy as standard of care for locally advanced rectal cancer at a regional cancer centre: Completeness of Treatment, Surgical Quality and postoperative complications. Dr. Vanessa Wiseman

  • CSCRS-32: A picture is worth a thousand words: graphic narrative to supplement consent for low anterior resection. Dr. Elizabeth Clement

  • CHPBA-23: Impact of wound protectors on complications following pancreaticoduodenectomy: A NSQIP analysis of 20,960 patients. Dr. Kevin Verhoeff

  • CSSO-15: Exploring Genetic Literacy in Surgeons Who Manage Patients with Cancer: A National Survey of Knowledge, Perceptions, Attitudes, and Barriers. Dr. Sandra Messiha

  • CATS-16 (Duranceau Award): Thoracic Surgeon-Led Bedside Biopsy is Safe, Efficient, and Economic in a Canadian Healthcare Context. Dr. Vaibhav Gupta

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To review all of the Abstracts Submissions presented at the CSF 2024, please follow this link. Feel free to search authors name to find the submission.

CSF 2023 Abstract Winners

Top Paper Winner

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ACS- 08 Delayed vs. Early Laparoscopic Appendectomy (DELAY) for Adult Patients with Acute Appendicitis: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Dr. Zuhaib M. Mir

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Papers per Sub-Specialty

  • CAGS-81: Assessment of Environmental and Economic Sustainability of Peri-operative Patient Warming Strategies. Dr. Karina  Spoyalo

  • CATS-15 (Ginsberg Award): Stage II/III Esophageal Cancer Patients with Complete Clinical Response post Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy - A Markov Decision Analysis. Dr. Tiago Ribeiro

  • CSCRS-53 (Clinical Award): Modulation of the Gut Microbiota with Fermentable Fibers and 5-Aminosalicylate to Prevent Peri-anastomotic and Metastatic Recurrence of Colorectal Cancer. Dr. Roy Hajjar

  • CSCRS-48 (basic Science Award): A Mucosa-Adherent Bacterium Impairs Colorectal Anastomotic Healing by Upregulating Interleukin-17: The Role of Low-Grade Inflammation as a Driver of Anastomotic Leak. Dr. Roy Hajjar

  • CHPBA-22: Armed Oncolytic Virus VSV-LIGHT/TNFSF14 Promotes Survival and Results in Complete Pathological and Radiological Response in an Immunocompetent Model of Advanced Pancreatic Cancer. Dr. Sarah Mansouri

  • CSSO-17 Adjuvant radiation therapy amongst immigrant and Canadian-born/long-term resident women with breast cancer. Dr. Ashley Eom.

  • CHS-04 Robotic Transabdominal Preperitoneal Grynfeltt Lumbar Hernia Repair with Mesh. Dr. Rachel Liu

  • ACS- 08 Delayed vs. Early Laparoscopic Appendectomy (DELAY) for Adult Patients with Acute Appendicitis: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Dr. Zuhaib M. Mir

 

Poster Winners per Sub-Specialty

•    CAGS-47: The Association between Gender and Confidence in UBC General Surgery Residents. Dr. Elizabeth Clement 
CAGS-48: Quality Improvement in Timeliness of EPA Completion in General Surgery Residency. Dr. Kara Nadeau
CAGS-46: Holographic Surgical Skills Training: Can We Use Holograms to Teach Hand Tying and Is It Comparable to In-person Learning? Dr. Ge Shi
•   CSCRS-44: Rectal Cancer in the Very Young (Age <40) - More Treatment Worse Survival, A Population-Based Study. Dr. Vanessa Wiseman

  • CSCRS-51: Safety and Efficacy of Intravenous Antifibrinolytic Use in Colorectal Surgery: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Dr. Lily Park

•    CON/CABPS-14: Duodenal-Jejunal Bypass Liners Are Superior to Optimal Medical Management in Ameliorating Metabolic Dysfunction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Dr. Steffane McLennan
•    CHPBA-15: Modulation by PCSK9 of the Immune Recognition of Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastasis. Dr. Yara Haddad
•    CSSO-03  Exploring neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio as a predictor of postoperative breast cancer overall survival. Dr. 
Alisha Jaffer
   CATS-01 (Duranceau Prize): Changes in Sarcopenia Status Predict Survival among Patients with Resectable Esophageal Cancer. Dr. Uzair Jogiat

Canadian Journal of Surgery

All accepted CSF abstracts are published annually in the Canadian Journal of Surgery; the CSF 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 submissions are available now.

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View the 2024 Canadian Surgery Forum abstracts in the Canadian Journal of Surgery.

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View the 2023 Canadian Surgery Forum abstracts in the Canadian Journal of Surgery.

 

View the 2022 Canadian Surgery Forum abstracts in the Canadian Journal of Surgery.

 

View the 2021 Canadian Surgery Forum abstracts in the Canadian Journal of Surgery.​

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