SIS Program seminars are held on Tuesdays from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (unless otherwise stated). Seminars will be in English.
All sessions are on Zoom. Contact surgicalresearch.med@mcgill.ca for link.
Date
Speaker
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Prisca Bustamante Alvarez, PhD
Advisor Business Development Mitacs
Topic: Mitacs: Funding Opportunities that Bridge the Gap between Academia and Industry
Advisor Business Development Mitacs
Topic: Mitacs: Funding Opportunities that Bridge the Gap between Academia and Industry
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
John S. Sampalis, M.Sc., PhD, FACE, FAHA
Epidemiologist
Professor of Surgery and Medicine at McGill University and University of Montreal
Founder and CEO of JSS Medical Research founded in 1997
Topic: Advanced Statistical Methods in Surgical Research: Addressing Missing Data, Survival Analysis, and Adaptive Trial Designs
Epidemiologist
Professor of Surgery and Medicine at McGill University and University of Montreal
Founder and CEO of JSS Medical Research founded in 1997
Topic: Advanced Statistical Methods in Surgical Research: Addressing Missing Data, Survival Analysis, and Adaptive Trial Designs
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Amanda Wheatley, MLIS
Liaison Librarian for Management, Business, and Entrepreneurship Outreach and Engagement Coordinator at the McGill Libraries.
Project Manager McGill Library’s website design
Sandy Hervieux, MLIS
Head of the Nahum Gelber Law Library
Virtual Reference Coordinator at the McGill Libraries
Topic: Using AI Tools for Research
Liaison Librarian for Management, Business, and Entrepreneurship Outreach and Engagement Coordinator at the McGill Libraries.
Project Manager McGill Library’s website design
Sandy Hervieux, MLIS
Head of the Nahum Gelber Law Library
Virtual Reference Coordinator at the McGill Libraries
Topic: Using AI Tools for Research
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Yiming Xiao, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University
Research Chair in Intuitive and Intelligent Surgical Technologies
Member of the Applied AI Institute and the School of Health at Concordia
FRQS Junior 1 Research Scholar
Topic: Human-centered designs for the next generation of surgical AI and virtual reality tools
Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University
Research Chair in Intuitive and Intelligent Surgical Technologies
Member of the Applied AI Institute and the School of Health at Concordia
FRQS Junior 1 Research Scholar
Topic: Human-centered designs for the next generation of surgical AI and virtual reality tools
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Geraldine Merle, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal
Topic: Exploring new frontiers in bone healing and patient outcomes beyond autografts
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal
Topic: Exploring new frontiers in bone healing and patient outcomes beyond autografts
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Vahid Adibnia, PhD
Assistant Professor
Tier II Canada Research Chair in Functional Polymeric Biomaterials
Department of Biomaterials & Applied Oral Sciences
School of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Chemistry
Affiliate Scientist at Nova Scotia Health Authority
Dalhousie University
Topic: Advanced functional polymeric biomaterials for bleeding control and early-stage osteoarthritis treatment
Assistant Professor
Tier II Canada Research Chair in Functional Polymeric Biomaterials
Department of Biomaterials & Applied Oral Sciences
School of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Chemistry
Affiliate Scientist at Nova Scotia Health Authority
Dalhousie University
Topic: Advanced functional polymeric biomaterials for bleeding control and early-stage osteoarthritis treatment
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Martin J. Stoddart, PhD, FRSB, FIOR
Program Leader, Regenerative Orthopaedics Program at the AO Research Institute Davos (ARI), Switzerland
Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Keele, UK
Professor, Medical Faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany
Topic: Mechanical activation of TGF: Driving MSC chondrogenesis by tribology
Program Leader, Regenerative Orthopaedics Program at the AO Research Institute Davos (ARI), Switzerland
Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Keele, UK
Professor, Medical Faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany
Topic: Mechanical activation of TGF: Driving MSC chondrogenesis by tribology
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
James Meta, B.Eng, MBA
Technology Transfer Manager
Innovation + Partnerships
McGill University | Office of the Vice-Principle (Research & Innovation)
Topic: Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer at McGill
Technology Transfer Manager
Innovation + Partnerships
McGill University | Office of the Vice-Principle (Research & Innovation)
Topic: Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer at McGill
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Illien-Junger, Svenja, PhD
Topic: TBA
Topic: TBA
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Francis Lin, PhD
Topic: TBA
Topic: TBA