Centre for Health Innovation build synergies to tackle the most pressing human health challenges

“CHI integrates insights from the frontlines of care to understand the real-world experiences and needs of patients and healthcare professionals. We are multidisciplinary because we understand that the creative and innovative power of inclusion will lead to the next evolution of transformative healthcare for all.”

Minimally-invasive techniques for complex venous disease

“We are one of the few centres in the world equipped to perform this advanced, minimally-invasive bypass. This is the kind of work that will end up in textbooks and will change practice patterns for arterial surgery.”

Medical informatics for tomorrow’s health workforce

“We need a highly specialized workforce with the skills and knowledge to optimize big data for advanced surgical techniques. MediCREATE is nurturing leaders in digital health who will give Canada a global competitive edge in surgical procedures and tools.”

Surgical education key to responding to global cancer crisis

“The mortality rates for curable cancers is almost parallel to the number of cases in these countries. People are needlessly dying because they cannot access care.”

New Surgical Research Chairs

Queen’s Health Sciences is pleased to announce the appointments of three new Research Chairs in the Department of Surgery. Dr. Ryan Bicknell has been appointed as the Helliwell Chair in Orthopaedic Research, Dr. Ron Levy as Queen’s Chair in Surgical Innovation and Research, and Dr. Sulaiman Nanji as the J. Hugh McGuire Chair in Surgery.