New Staff
The Department of Surgery warmly welcomes the following individuals who have joined
our Department.
Jenny and Stefan Hofer with their children Lisa and Daniel
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Stefan Hofer
We are delighted to welcome Stefan Hofer to the Division of Plastic Surgery at the
University Health Network (UHN). Dr. Stefan Hofer is the Division Head, Plastic
Surgery at UHN and the second Wharton Chair in Head and Neck Reconstruction. He
is appointed as an Associate Professor and Surgeon-Investigator and is the Division's
first international candidate to be recruited in over a decade.
Dr. Hofer obtained his medical degree from the University of Amsterdam in 1992.
He then completed his PhD studying tissue oxygen tension as an indicator of tissue
perfusion with Prof. Dr. P.J. Klopper, Department of Surgical Research, Academic
Medical Center, Amsterdam. Stefan then obtained his board certification in Plastic
Surgery from the Netherlands in 2000. Prior to moving to Toronto, Dr. Hofer was
a Staff Plastic Surgeon in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam and the Head of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgical
Oncology.
Stefan is an accomplished plastic and reconstructive surgeon and has a strong international
reputation for his outstanding contributions in the areas of clinical service, education,
and research. Dr. Hofer's clinical interest is in head & neck and breast oncologic
reconstructive surgery. Dr. Hofer will focus on technical improvements of reconstructive
techniques, and functional and aesthetic outcomes after reconstructive surgery.
Stefan's research is in angiogenesis and tissue engineering, more specifically the
vascularization of three-dimensional tissue engineered constructs.
Dr. Hofer's practice will be based out of his office at the Toronto General Hospital.
Stefan is actively recruiting to the Division of Plastic Surgery - with his eye
on building Canada's largest oncology reconstructive program.
We welcome Stefan, his wife Jenny and his children Lisa and Daniel to Toronto, UHN,
the Department of Surgery and the Division of Plastic Surgery.
Dimitri Anastakis
University Division Chair, Plastic Surgery
Markku Nousiainen
Markku Nousiainen
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Markku Nousiainen, recently appointed to the staff of the Holland Orthopaedic &
Arthritic Centre - SHSC, graduated from Queen's University at Kingston with an Honours
Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1993. He then completed a Master of Science in Biology
at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 1995 and obtained his M.D. at
the University of Toronto in 2000. His residency training in orthopaedic surgery
was also at the University of Toronto; he graduated in 2005.
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Dr. Nousiainen has
performed two fellowships, one in adult lower extremity reconstruction with Drs.
Alan Gross and David Backstein at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, and the other
in orthopaedic trauma with Dr. David Helfet at the Hospital for Special Surgery
in New York, NY. He is currently completing a Master of Education degree at the
Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto, specializing in
Health Professions Education.
Dr. Nousiainen's clinical interests lie in adult trauma (pelvic, acetabular, periarticular
fractures) and reconstruction (primary and revision total hip and knee arthroplasty).
His research interests involve training policy in fellowship-level education and
in surgical skills education (particularly involving computer navigation) at the
novice and expert levels.
Benjamin Alman
University Division Chair, Orthopaedic Surgery
Mark Peterson
It is a pleasure to announce the recruitment of Dr. Mark Peterson as a cardiac surgeon/investigator
to our group. Dr. Peterson has completed his MD at the University of Manitoba and
had his full cardiac surgical residency training here at the University of Toronto
as well has his PhD. He completed his post training fellowship in endovascular surgery
where he worked at the Arizona Heart Institute under Dr. Ted Diethrich. He has had
funding from the Heart and Stoke Foundation and the CIHR as well as PSI grants.
His special interest in large vessel stenting will be in concert with the vascular
surgeons and diagnostic imaging. (See related article
here)
Ori Rotstein
Surgeon-in-Chief, St. Michael's Hospital
John Theodoropoulos
John Theodoropoulos
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John completed his medical school at Queen's University and orthopaedic residency
at McGill University, during which he did an elective at Mount Sinai. He completed
a sports fellowship at the University of Illinois Chicago. Since then he has been
in practice at William Osler Hospital. He feels that the future of sports medicine
is in developing better biologic based repair therapies (e.g. tissue engineering
or cartilage regeneration), and would be interested in working with a team to develop
novel therapies. He also has a strong interest in teaching residents, and has an
interest in using the skills lab to help develop techniques to teach the residents
how to do arthroscopy. He has a real interest in working as part of a translational
research team to develop novel therapies for sports related research. John is our
first orthopaedic recruit into the new Women's College Hospital.
Benjamin Alman
University Division Chair, Orthopaedic Surgery
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