New Staff
Toni Zhong
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Toni Zhong is our newest
recruit to the Division of
Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery and Department
of Surgical Oncology at the
University of Toronto. She has
recently joined the Oncologic
Reconstructive Program at the
Toronto General Hospital. In
addition to her clinical interest
in all forms of complex
reconstruction post-oncologic ablation and treatment
of difficult cutaneous malignancies, the overriding goal
of her clinical practice is to help establish the Breast
Restoration Program at UHN under the leadership of
Stefan Hofer, the Chief of Plastic Surgery at UHN.
Toni is a graduate of the Plastic Surgery Residency
Training Program at the University of Western Ontario
and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Canada in 2007. During her residency,
Toni won numerous national and international research
awards including the Young Investigator Award at the
World Transplant Congress for her work on the development
of limb transplantation in a mouse model (2006),
the Elsevier Canada Research Award (2006), the F.M.
Woolhouse Award presented for the best clinical paper
presented at the Canadian Plastic Surgery Meeting
(2004), and the PSIF Prize for the most outstanding
resident research papers in Ontario universities (2005).
She was also a recipient of numerous research grants,
including the PSIF Resident Research Grant (2003),
Canadian Hand Society Research Grant (2004), and
Synthesis craniofacial grant in Paediatric Plastic Surgery
(2007). Following the completion of her residency, Toni
was awarded the prestigious Zeiss Canada Microsurgery
Scholarship to pursue a year-long Microvascular and
Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship at Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
Toni hopes to contribute to the long tradition of
academic excellence and innovation within the Division
of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University
of Toronto. To complement her clinical practice in the
field of reconstructive surgery, she is currently pursuing
her Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research areas of
interest include the development of validated patient-reported
outcome instruments designed to evaluate
health-related quality of life following specific breast
surgical procedures and the identification of barriers to
access of care especially as it pertains to breast reconstruction.
Stefan Hofer
Division Head, Plastic Surgery, UHN
Wharton Chair in Head and Neck Reconstruction
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Andrew Dueck joined the University of Toronto,
Division of Vascular Surgery and the combined Cardiac
and Vascular Division at Sunnybrook Health Sciences
Centre on October 1st 2007. Andrew did an undergraduate
degree in Cell Biology at the University of Waterloo
prior to completing his MD at Queen's University.
During medical school at Queen's he distinguished himself
with numerous scholarships. His interest in surgery
combined with his scholarship and surgical potential was
demonstrated early as he was the winner of the Dr. Osler
Briggs Dickinson Scholarship for outstanding performance
in surgery. After graduation he began a residency
in General Surgery at the University of Toronto, during
which he was awarded a CIHR fellowship to complete
a Masters of Clinical Epidemiology on Aortic Aneurysm
Care in Ontario with joint supervision from Daryl Kucey
(Vascular Surgery) and Andreas Laupacis. His research
presentation at the Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery
resulted in his winning the Blair/Gore Award. Three
major publications in the Journal of Vascular Surgery
detailed his analysis of AAA care in Ontario. During
the successful completion of his residency in General
Surgery and a two-year residency in Vascular Surgery,
his contributions to teaching were recognized. He won
a Harrison teaching award at Sunnybrook and Paddy
Lewis Award for excellence in Postgraduate teaching at
University Health Network. During his Vascular Surgery
training he worked with Douglas Wooster on barriers
to AAA screening. His presentation "Fishing for BASS:
Surveying Primary Physicians in the Barriers to Aortic
Screening Study" was awarded the Society for Vascular
Ultrasound's Dr. Alex Chao Young Investigator Award.
After the completion of his Royal College Vascular training,
Andrew sought advanced training with a fellowship
in Endovascular Surgery and Peripheral Interventions at
the Arizona Heart Hospital with Ted Diethrich before
returning to Sunnybrook.
Andrew's research interests are in novel imaging techniques
in vascular disease. He has been busy since he
returned to the Division of Vascular Surgery starting
research projects, raising funds for the endovascular program
at Sunnybrook and becoming the Tariff Chair for
the Section of Vascular Surgery at the Ontario Medical
Association. Andrew is also has a passion for landscape
and architectural photography in his spare time.
Andrew's partner, Deborah Neill has a PhD in History
from the University of Toronto and is an Assistant
Professor in the Department of History, School of Arts
and Letters at York University. Most recently they have
become proud parents of Claire Robin Dueck who was
born November 28th 2008..
The Division of Vascular Surgery is delighted to
welcome Andrew to the Department of Surgery at the
University of Toronto.
Thomas Lindsay MDCM FRCS FACS
Professor and Chair, Division of Vascular Surgery
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