Thank you so much for joining us on Cold Steel!

The tremulous surgeon seems like such an oxymoron, an impossible paradox. The reality of course, is that many surgeons have a tremor. Our discussion on this episode with Lilli Cooper on tremors was a wonderful exploration of performance anxiety in surgery. Lilli Cooper is a plastic surgeon in the UK, and produced a segment for the BBC on tremors in surgeons. We caught up with her to talk about what she’s learned about tremors and the insights she has on performance in surgery. You can check out all the work she does on her website https://lillicooper.co.uk/.

Links:

1. https://lillicooper.co.uk/

2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0021j9y

3. A pilot study of performance enhancement coaching for newly appointed urology registrars. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38767172/

4. Enhancing surgical performance by adopting expert musicians' practice and performance strategies. https://www-sciencedirect-com.proxy.queensu.ca/science/article/pii/S0039606017306323

5. Romy Nitsch and Jen Mccall on Imposterism in Surgery. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3UuP5JTGuhP8J2JvycoEFh

We’re really excited to bring you talks that we recorded as part of the CANUCS Surgical Fellows course. CANUCS is a national organization that stands for Canadian collaborative on urgent care surgery. Dr. Chad Ball and Kelly Vogt were instrumental in bringing together some really fantastic speakers to talk about the critical knowledge and skills that surround obtaining a staff job, as well as being successful both personally and professionally in a demanding career.

Dr. Morad Hameed is an innovator, leader, and trauma surgeon. He currently is the chief of acute care surgery at Stanford University and held many leadership roles within Canada. We don’t really think we can do justice to this talk. Nominally this talk was about transitions in practice during a surgical career, but really this talk was an ode to joy in surgery and how we can find fulfillment as both surgeons and human beings.

As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback, so please email us at podcast.cjs@gmail.com.

Bio:

Morad Hameed is a trauma surgeon, intensivist, and public health researcher. He completed medical school and surgical residency at the University of Alberta, graduate studies in public health at Harvard University, and fellowships in Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at the University of Miami. He spent 3 years on the surgical faculty at the University of Calgary, before moving to the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he spent 19 years at the Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), which is the home of province-wide centers of excellence in trauma surgery and critical care.

His clinical interests span innovations in trauma surgery and emergency general surgery (including chest wall trauma, abdominal wall reconstruction, and applications of extracorporeal life support in trauma), process and quality improvement, surgical rescue, value-based healthcare, and surgical systems. He has been a committed surgical educator who served as the director of one of Canada’s most dynamic surgical residency programs, and one of its most accomplished trauma and acute care surgery fellowship programs. He has won divisional, departmental, hospital-wide, and province-wide awards for his teaching. His main research interest is in public health aspects of trauma and emergency surgery, including social determinants of health and disparities in access to high quality emergency surgical care, and his research programs have received support from the Michael Smith Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Dr. Hameed’s leadership roles have included terms as the Head of the VGH and UBC Divisions of General Surgery and President of the Canadian Association of General Surgeons. His work with these organizations has prioritized creativity, innovation, inclusive networks, and cross-disciplinary partnerships to rethink and redesign systems of surgical care.

He is excited to arrive at Stanford, where he is blessed to begin to work with another exceptionally talented group of trauma and acute care surgeons and intensivists. At Stanford, Dr. Hameed is inspired to help build surgical services that explore the intersections of surgery with data science, organizational theory, public health, global health, and sustainability, and that contribute to the pursuit of universal access to high quality surgical care and the highest standards of human health in California and around the world.

Links:

1. E141 Journal Club with Morad Hameed on Cardiac Injuries
2. E105 Death, Dying, and MAID in Surgery with Kelly Vogt and Morad Hameed
3. E94 Mental Health and Surgery with Rebecca Afford, JJ Sidhu and Morad Hameed
4. E28 Equity in Surgery with Julius Ebinu, Shahzeer Karmali, and Morad Hameed
5. E14 COVID19 with Neil Parry And Morad Hameed
6. E02 Morad Hameed on Process-Mapping in ACS

We’re really excited to bring you talks that we recorded as part of the CANUCS Surgical Fellows course. CANUCS is a national organization that stands for Canadian collaborative on urgent care surgery. Dr. Chad Ball and Kelly Vogt were instrumental in bringing together some really fantastic speakers to talk about the critical knowledge and skills that surround obtaining a staff job, as well as being successful both personally and professionally in a demanding career.

Dr. Morgan Schellenberg is a trauma and acute care surgeon who recently joined us back in Canada as a staff surgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. She lays out some very practical advice about one of the most important decisions we have to make at the end of the very long road of training: how to choose your first job! Dr. Schellenberg also has some really keen insights into working in the US versus Canada.

As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback, so please email us at podcast.cjs@gmail.com.

Bio:

Dr. Morgan Schellenberg is a trauma and acute care surgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. Previously she did her residency at Queen’s University and fellowship at Keck School of Medicine of USC and subsequently went on to practice in Los Angeles.