Hi, I'm Dr. Pablo Serrano. I'm an associate professor of surgery at McMaster University
and I work at the Juravinski Hospital, part of the HHS system. My student this summer is
Tharani De Silva. She's graduating from her high school St. Thomas Moore and is coming to McMaster
for health sciences. So my research focuses on clinical outcomes following liver and pancreatic
surgery here at the Juravinski Hospital and within the university we also collaborate with a number
of different departments including the oncology department as well as the immunology department.
During the summer Tharani will be working with us in different research projects one
of them is taking patient samples to analyze and describe to see if there is a pancreatic leak.
She is also looking into filling our hpp database in the breadcast system. After this summer I am
sure that she's going to learn a lot of what we do here at McMaster University and the HHS system
including terminology and medicine, how to analyze samples, and interaction with the research staff.
Hi my name is Mihir Bhatt. I am an assistant professor in pediatric hematology oncology in the
department of pediatrics at McMaster University and I work as a pediatric hematologist oncologist
at the McMaster Children's Hospital. My bursary student that I'm working with this year is
Vikram Arora who just graduated from Hillfield Strathallan College and he is going into McMaster
University integrated sciences bachelor's program. My areas of research interest is in the field of
pediatric thrombosis and hemostasis. So Vikram is working on a very important quality improvement
initiative that we are looking to understand the incidence, the risk and the management
of children who get thrombosis or blood clots after being admitted to hospital. So I really hope
that at the end of these seven weeks Vikram gets an exposure to what clinical research is like.
He gets a chance to deep dive in the field of hematology and thrombosis to learn some terms to
learn about what patients go through because I really hope that we're able to present the work
that he's doing. It's been a real pleasure to work with you Vikram hopefully you got to
learn something from our team but I equally got to learn some things from you as well so thank you.
My name is Anthony Chan. I'm a pediatric hematologist
working at the Hamilton Health Science McMaster Children's Hospital
and I'm also a professor of pediatrics at McMaster University. Anne Fu is the student,
she just graduated from Ancaster High School and she'll be going to Queen's University to
do bachelor of health science. My area of interest is all in hemostasis and thrombosis in children.
I run a research lab, I call it McMaster Developmental Hemostasis Laboratory and I
also run clinical trials in clinical study in the area of thrombosis and hemostasis in children.
And we'll mostly be involved with the clinical study that we are involved with it goes into
a few different levels. One is to help I call it the logistic of clinical trials and second is to
in fact writing up some of the study that we we have initiated and then and also developing a
new ideas that we have been working on. I'm hoping that she will see to her that a lot of what we do
in fact is done by a team of people and that she will continue to see the importance of research,
and I think, I really enjoy you being in the program and best of luck and best wishes.
I'm Geoff Werstuck. I'm a professor in the department of medicine at McMaster
University and I do research at the Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Institute. This summer
we've been fortunate to work with Emily Foxman who's a recent graduate of Hillfield Strathallan.
This fall she's headed to McGill University. Our research is focused on understanding why people
with diabetes are predisposed to having heart attacks and strokes and this is a major problem
because of the increased prevalence of diabetes in Canadian society today. Emily's been working
with a post-doc in the lab Daniel Venegas-Pino and they're characterizing models that will assist us
in understanding the molecular mechanisms by which diabetes and hyperglycemia drive the cellular
processes that promote atherosclerosis which is the underlying cause of cardiovascular disease.
So Emily's quickly mastered techniques that allow us to measure lipid levels in
the blood of of our mouse models and she's also developed techniques to measure atherosclerotic
plaques in mouse arteries. I'm sure Emily's learned a lot this summer and
she certainly helped us out in the lab, and this will give her a huge head start going into first
year university at McGill, and she'll be far ahead of her peers because of her experiences
in doing hands-on real-life cutting edge research. We'd like to thank Emily for
all your help this summer and we wish her all the best in her studies in the future.
I'm Mike McGillion, assistant dean research in School of Nursing and a scientist at the
Population Health Research Institute and Hamilton Health Sciences. I'm a researcher
in our Surgical Transitions Program focusing on the virtual care and remote monitoring of
patients recovering from surgery. So this summer I have the pleasure of working with Wenjun Jiang,
a graduate of Ancaster High School who is entering the McMaster University integrated
sciences program in September. Wenjun's providing a very important role in our Surgical Transitions
Program this summer helping us to track important data for our reporting purposes to the ministry.
Wenjun is also working with me on a number of publications helping us to make the case about why
virtual care with remote patient monitoring is so important. One of the very important things Wenjun
is involved with is entering into our database all of the important metrics for reporting purposes in
terms of the effectiveness of our surgical care program. These data are going to be critically
important as we evolve the program in future in terms of efficiency of clinical rollout
and scoping who we address in terms of patient care for Surgical Transitions. In working with us
on data input as well as analysis and also publications, I'm hoping that he learns the
full spectrum of what it is to have an integrated program of research and operations. I'd like to
thank Wenjun for his contributions to the program which have been truly impressive.
My name is Dr. Alison Fox-Robichaud. I am director of medical education at Hamilton Health Sciences
and professor of medicine at McMaster University. My student this summer was Fatima Zakar.
Fatima is a graduate of Saltlfeet Academy in Hamilton. Fatima is going to be entering
McMaster University in the life sciences program this fall, which means I have her for the next
four years. My research interests are sepsis. I'm actually the scientific director of Sepsis Canada
and I lead the harm reduction sepsis working group co-lead the harm reduction sepsis working group at
Hamilton Health Sciences. Over the summer Fatima has learned how to do both clinical research and
bench research. She's learned how to do assays in the lab with my graduate student Jazkarit,
and she's also learned how to do and work on things such as a scoping review and data
extraction and reviewing articles. Fatima says the most exciting thing was actually doing an eliza in
the lab and she's looking forward to coming back during the academic year. What I hope Fatima takes
away from this experience over the summer is the breadth of research around sepsis. Everything
from understanding and learning about diagnostic biomarkers to how we study research that other
people have done. Thank you so much for coming and willing to be part of our lab this summer.
Hi I'm Richard Whitlock. I'm a cardiac surgeon at Hamilton Health Sciences
and a professor of surgery at McMaster University. It's my pleasure this year to
supervise and introduce Chiara Fricano. She's a previous student at Cathedral High School.
She's actually going to be entering into the life sciences program at McMaster University. Being a
cardiac surgeon I'm really focused on clinical trials involving cardiac surgery patients.
My main focus is on atrial fibrillation and stroke outcomes in our patients. Chiara has joined our
local recruiting team. Chiara has been involved in reviewing protocols, in understanding the
recruitment process, and actually has now started to recruit and consent patients, and she will be
continuing to collect data and learn about data entry, data management, etc. We're also hoping to
get her into the central side here at Population Health Research Institute to see this side or the
central side of the research as that data comes in from the sites so she can learn about that
process also to help her in terms of choosing her career path in the future and support her in that.
My team's been speaking very enthusiastically about Chiara hopefully Chiara will join us in
those kind of endeavors and we can watch her mature as she progresses academically through
university and off to medical school should she desire that or whatever she wants to do.