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OAGS Resident Research Grant Winner

Together with our exclusive financial services partner MD Financial Management | Scotiabank Healthcare+, we would like to thank all those who applied to our recent competition.

Congratulations🎉 to this year's 2024-25 5th Annual OAGS Resident Research Grant Winner:
Dr. Fay Alresaini, MD, General Surgery PGY4, McMaster University
Award: $5,000
Sponsor: MD Financial Management | Scotiabank
Title of Project: "Artificial Intelligence to Predict Malignancy in Indeterminate Thyroid Cytology"
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Jesse D. Pasternak, MD, MPH, FRCSC, FACS;

Section Head - Endocrine Surgery; Division of General Surgery, Sprott Department of Surgery – University Health Network, Dept. of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Director, Endocrine Surgery Fellowship Program, Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto
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Congrats & Welcome to R1s! Good luck R5s!

Congratulations and welcome to the new R1s who matched to General Surgery!!👏👏🏽

Royal College Exams

May 1st marks the date for General Surgery applied exams. Best of luck to the R5s!! 👏👏🏽

  • Applied/Virtual Exams: May 1, 2025
  • Written Exams: September 25-26, 2025
  • Applied: Spring 2026
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  • Current Resident Liaisons

    • NOSM

      Dr. Aruba Nurullah, PGY5

    • Western University

      Dr. Emily Evans, PGY4

    • McMaster University

      Dr. Vicki Archer, PGY5

    • University of Toronto

      Dr. Peter Kyung Young Kim, PGY3

    • Queen's University

      Dr. Sandra Messiha, PGY5

    • University of Ottawa

      Dr. Lata Bhandary, PGY5

    Past Resident Reps

    • Dr. Tyler McKechnie, McMasterU

      2021-present

    • Dr. Fahima Dossa, UofT

      2018-2021

    • Dr. Patrick Murphy, WesternU

      2015-2018

    • Dr. Kellen Kieffer, NOSM

      2012-2015

    • Dr. Julie Ann Van Koughnett, WesternU

      2010-2012

    • Dr. Karen Devon, UofT

      2007-2010

    • Dr. Shiva Jayaraman, WesternU

      2004-2007

    • Dr. Tara Mastracci, McMasterU

      2003-2004

    • Dr. Kevin Lefebvre, WesternU

      2000-2003

    • Dr. Jeff Kolbasnik, McMasterU

      1998-2000

    Previous Winners of our Annual OAGS Resident Research Grant Competition

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