Announcements

Queen’s University researcher John Rudan (Surgery) has been formally inducted into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellowship, one of Canada’s premier academic honours. An internationally recognized trailblazer in orthopaedic surgery, Dr. Rudan was selected for his global leadership, academic performance and scientific creativity.

Click here to read the full article in the Queen's Gazette

We are excited to share this recent news article from the Kingston Whig-Standard which profiles The Kingston Health Sciences Centre's recent announcement of its successful completion of the first hybrid cardiac ablation in Canada with our Department of Surgery's Dr Gianluigi Bisleri working with Dr Ben Glover. Please see the full article at the link below!

http://www.thewhig.com/2017/07/10/kingston-doctors-perform-canadian-first

 

The Queen's University Departments of Surgery and Urology invite you to a special presentation by Dr. Garnette R. Sutherland, MSc, MED, FRCPC, Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Calgary

"What next...? The Nuances of Innovation in Medicine"

Wednesday March 29, 2017 at 5:00PM
School of Medicine Building
15 Arch Street
Queen's University
ROOM 132A

All welcome - Free Admission
Refreshments at 4:30pm

Please also join us for Dr Sutherland's Rounds Lecture that morning entitled

"Advancing Neurosurgery through Imaging and Robotics"

Wednesday March 29, 2017
07:30-08:30hrs
Etherington Hall Auditorium

Please click on the links below to view the posters for more information about these events:

Public Lecture at 5PM (Refreshments at 4:30PM)
Rounds Lecture at 7:30AM

Friday, March 31 (8 – 4pm) at Ban Righ – lower Levana room.  

Every year, its main objective is to provide participants with an opportunity to enhance surgical research by familiarizing themselves with the research activities of others within the Department of Surgery at Queen’s University as well as provide research mentorship for our surgical residents. 
Guest speakers are invited to review the role of research in surgical education and its influence on industry.

Dr Andrew Hamilton, cardiac surgeon in Queen's Department of Surgery at KGH, was a member of the medical team who miraculously brought back to life a Queen's student who froze to death on a Kingston pier. Full news story below

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/02/19/this-queens-student-froze-to-death-on-a-kingston-pier-heres-how-he-came-back-to-life.html