2025 Charles Sorbie Faculty Research Day | Department of Surgery | School of Medicine

The 2025 Charles Sorbie Faculty Research Day took place in the Great Hall at Fort Henry on Friday April 4, 2025. The guest speaker was Dr. Parvin Mousavi, Professor Queen’s University and Canadian Research Chair in Medical Informatics.

Dr. Mousavi’s talk entitled “Computer assisted Surgical Margin Evaluation: AI at the Cutting Edge”, covered new AI approaches and technical solutions for computer assisted medical interventions, with a particular focus in the area of surgical oncology.

Bio: Dr. Parvin Mousavi’s research interests are in Computer-aided diagnosis and interventions. These include: Machine learning techniques for in silico inference and prediction Analysis of ultrasound images and signals for enhancement of cancer detection Image-aided, computer-assisted diagnosis of disease Ultrasound-guided interventions Knowledge discovery from high throughput biological data Quantitative modeling and reverse engineering of gene regulatory networks Analysis, segmentation and classification of fluorescence microscopy images Chromosome and cell imaging.

Congratulations to the following Award winners:

The Dr. John Rudan Resident Award of Excellence – Dr. Matthew Snow, PGY5

This award was established to value the academic development of a surgical resident. It recognizes an individual that consistently demonstrates all the qualities of an excellent surgical resident, specifically the highest level of professionalism, collegiality, and clinical care.

Clerkship Awards; Recognition of professionalism, leadership and teaching.

Resident Clerkship Award – Dr. Matthew Snow, PGY5

Faculty Clerkship Award – Dr. Mila Kolar (Division of General Surgery)

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