PODCAST

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast

Canadian Journal of Surgery

The official podcast of the Canadian Journal of Surgery

science life sciences

All Episodes

00:56:15

E135 How to Publish Papers with Wendy Carroll

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/08/28

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e135-how-publish-papers-wendy-carroll This week we got to peek behind the curtains of academic publishing with Wendy Carroll. Wendy is the Managing Editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal Group. Wendy had some amazing insights into what goes on during the submission process, as well as the overall landscape for journals in 2022. Perhaps our favourite part of our conversation with Wendy was her tips about what makes for good

00:41:00

E134 Masterclass with Charles Vollmer on Cystic...

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/08/18

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e134-masterclass-charles-vollmer-cystic-neoplasms-pancreas-part-2 Dr. Charles Vollmer is the Chief of GI surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and is a passionate pancreatic surgeon. This is the second part of our masterclass series with Dr. Vollmer on cystic lesions of the pancreas. In part II, Dr. Vollmer dives deep specifically on IPMNs, giving us an in-depth discussion of types of IPMNs, the various guidelines for IPMN management, as well

00:31:35

E133 Masterclass with Charles Vollmer on Types and...

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/08/18

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e133-masterclass-charles-vollmer-types-and-workup-cystic-neoplasms-pancreas Dr. Charles Vollmer is the Chief of GI Surgery and Director of Pancreatic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a repeat guest of the show. We were lucky enough to have him do another masterclass for Cold Steel, this time on cystic neoplasms of the pancreas. In part 1 of this masterclass, Dr. Vollmer gives us an overview of cystic lesions of the pancreas, as

00:51:36

E132 Donna Kimmaliardjuk on Breaking Down Barriers...

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/08/11

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e132-donna-kimmaliardjuk-breaking-down-barriers-and-caring-indigenous-patients On this episode, we had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Donna Kimmaliardjuk (@DKimmaliardjuk on Twitter). Dr. Kimmaliardjuk is the first Inuk cardiac surgeon in Canada and has won numerous awards for her trailblazing work. We were lucky enough to catch up with her to ask her about her career and get her thoughts on how we can both make surgery a more inclusive

00:41:37

E131 Jeff Way on Spirituality in Surgery, Managing a...

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/08/02

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e131-jeff-way-spirituality-surgery-managing-busy-practice-and-advocacy We touched some “taboo” subjects today on the podcast – money and religion! Dr. Jeff Way is a trauma and general surgeon in Calgary. Today we asked Dr. Way about his interest in spirituality and how that has affected his career, inside and outside the operating room. We got his thoughts on managing a busy practice as well as his work on a provincial and national level with the

00:42:23

E130 Homer Tien on Ornge, Emergency Transport,...

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/07/21

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e130-homer-tien-ornge-emergency-transport-covid19-vaccine-distribution-leadership Dr. Homer Tien is a trauma surgeon at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. We were so excited to have him on the show because of the incredible work that he has done in multiple leadership roles, more recently as the president and CEO of ornge, Ontario’s air ambulance and transport service. Largely because of the amazing work he had done with ornge, Dr. Tien was also made

00:42:45

E129 Paul McBeth on Engineering and Surgery

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/07/18

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e129-paul-mcbeth-engineering-and-surgery This week we heard from Dr. Paul McBeth, intensivist and trauma surgeon at the University of Calgary. Dr. McBeth combines his unique engineering background with surgery, and shared his insights on how we all might use an engineering mindset to discover new ways of looking at old problems. Links: 1. Robotics in neurosurgery. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15476655/ 2. Cost-effective remote

01:00:57

E128 Helen Pham on Australian surgical training...

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/07/07

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e128-helen-pham-australian-surgical-training-programs-and-advice-starting-residency A big welcome to all the new resident starting this week on their journeys to become physicians and surgeons. To help you on the journey, we caught up with Dr. Helen Pham. Dr. Pham is a clinical associate lecturer at the University of Sydney and is the current HPB fellow at the University of Calgary. Dr. Pham shared with us some of the differences in training

00:52:14

E127 Rob Leeper on Competitive Motivation in Trauma...

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/06/24

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e127-rob-leeper-competitive-motivation-trauma-simulation-and-starting-out-practice Dr. Rob Leeper is a trauma surgeon at Western University in London, Ontario. We spoke with Dr. Leeper about his work on trauma simulation and particularly on his work on data drive competitive motivation strategies. Finally, Dr. Leeper shared with us the tips that he wished he had when started out in practice. Links: 1. Data Driven Competitive Motivation

00:53:56

E126 Lauren Kirwan on OR Nursing

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/06/15

Lauren Kirwan is the nurse clinician for general surgery at the Foothills Medical Centre. She is currently finishing up her nurse practitioner degree. We wanted to ask Lauren her thoughts about what it means to be an OR nurse and what she wishes surgeons would do to make the OR environment better. We also hear about the impact of COVID19 on our nursing colleagues. We’d love to hear from our nurse listeners – what are some things that make your day or make you mad in the operating room? Email us at

00:33:42

E125 Minister John Haggie on Physician Leadership and...

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/06/08

We had the unique opportunity on this episode to speak with the Honourable Minister John Haggie. Dr. Haggie is a general surgeon who spent his career in Newfoundland and Labrador, and went on to become a Member of the House of Assembly in 2015. He was appointed to be the Minister of Health at that time and has continued to serve in that porfolio ever since. We spoke to him about his fascinating life story, his thoughts on leadership and the role of physicians in politics, and about his favourite

00:47:58

E124 Paul Engels on Trauma Training in Canada

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/06/06

This week on the podcast we spoke with Dr. Paul Engels, a trauma surgeon from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. We got into some pretty detailed discussions around trauma training specifically, but more broadly about how we define what a resident should be able to perform at the end of training. Links: 1. The current state of resident trauma training: Are we losing a generation? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29806811/ 2. Canadian Collaborative on Urgent Care Surgery (CANUCS):

00:35:51

E123 Janice Pasieka on Shinrin-yoku, yoga, and other...

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/05/26

This week we were joined by Dr. Pasieka once again to talk about strategies to find stress and burnout as surgeons, especially in the context of COVID19. Check out her paper below! Links: 1. Shinrin-yoku, yoga and other strategies in the fight against COVID-19. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8405594/ Bio: Dr. Janice L Pasieka graduated from the University of Western Medical School and did her General Surgery Training at the University of Calgary. She then did two and a half years

00:51:44

E122 Bill Wall on Liver Transplantation in Canada

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/05/15

Dr. Bill Wall is one of the pioneers of liver transplantation, especially in Canada. We spoke to him on this episode about his training, the early days of transplantation and about his new children's book! Links: 1. Member of the Order of Canada: https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-9121 Bio (from https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-9121) William Wall is a dedicated and compassionate physician whose surgical and clinical proficiency have benefited many Canadians with end-stage

00:35:13

E121 Peter Brennan on Human Factors, Hierarchy in the...

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/05/08

This week we had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Peter Brennan (https://twitter.com/BrennanSurgeon?s=20&t=VZQWDi0op02x9_8qdn3Avg). Dr. Brennan is an oral maxillofacial surgeon in Portsmouth, England. A tremendously accomplished academic, Dr. Brennan has a keen interest in human factors in surgery. In addition, he is the co-editor of the Gray’s Surgical Anatomy. Links: 1. Dr. Brennan’s PhD on human factors:

00:47:08

SAGES Stories Episode 2

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/05/05

Welcome to all our Cold Steel listeners! We are excited to be collaborating with the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons or SAGES. SAGES produces an excellent podcast called the SAGES stories podcast, where they highlight some of the amazing work SAGES members have been doing. In this episode, SAGES stories hosts Shirin Towfigh and Kevin El Hayek interview one of our favourite former guests Dr. Liane Feldman, the outgoing presidents of SAGES. Links: 1. SAGES Stories:

00:51:04

E120 Officer of the Order of Canada Jonathan Meakins...

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/04/22

Dr. Jonathan Meakins is former Chair of the Department of Surgery at McGill and is an Officer of the Order of Canada for his outstanding work in immunobiology, laparoscopic surgery, and transplantation. Among his many interests is his love of art, and at the age of 73 Dr. Meakins has gone back to school to obtain his Masters in Fine Arts. Check out the links to see some of the fascinating work Dr. Meakins has done to demonstrate how the critical viewing of art can perhaps make us better clinicians

00:53:57

E119 Patricia Sylla on taTME, surgical innovation,...

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/04/13

Dr. Pat Sylla (https://twitter.com/patsyllamd?s=20&t=_w5QG96wjQE-0ttVJJaUmw) is a minimally invasive and colorectal surgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. She is a world famous innovator and was the first surgeon in the world to perform a transanal total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer. We caught up with her in-person (!) at the recent Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) annual meeting. Shout out to SAGES for putting on a great conference! Links: 1

01:07:02

E118 Eric Pauli On Surgical Endoscopy And Endoscopic...

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/03/31

Dr. Eric Pauli is a surgical endoscopist at Penn State. He has a very varied and novel practice, including abdominal wall reconstruction, endoscopy and general surgery. We had a great talk with him about surgical endoscopy and his work on endoscopic management of anastomotic leaks. This is also our very first video version of the podcast! Check it out on the CJS YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoA36iqiB-4 Links: 1. Endoscopic Management of Postoperative Complications.

00:43:00

E117 Mock Orals by Elizabeth Clement at Alberta...

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast ·

2022/03/14

Dr. Elizabeth Clement (https://twitter.com/LizClementMD?s=20&t=l43U6ZXhsJgw39faiXIpQQ), colorectal surgery fellow at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, put together a fantastic set of mock oral exams. These were delivered at the Alberta Association of General Surgeons (AAGS) annual meeting in Banff in November 2021. We were grateful to be able to use some of the recordings to share with you some more mock orals. Thanks again to the brave residents who allowed us to use their recordings! Links: 1

217 results

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast

All Episodes

Similar Podcasts

Classic Radio Science Fiction

solgoodmedia.com

Mission to Mars

Inception Point Ai

The 365 Days of Astronomy

365DaysOfAstronomy.org

Creek Devil

william Jevning

UFO Chronicles Podcast

Nik Hunter