The Department of Surgery’s WB & MH Chung Research Day is taking place on November 7, 2016 in the Paetzold Auditorium.
The WB & MH Chung Research Day provides an opportunity for our large and diverse Department of Surgery to highlight the wide range of basic and clinical research conducted by our faculty and trainees. The program includes topics ranging from pure basic science to translational research and clinical outcome studies. In the early 1990s, Doctors Wally Chung and Madeleine Chung endowed a fund to support a department-wide research forum.
We are honored to have Dr. Ivar Mendez as our visiting Chung lecturer who will be speaking on his internationally renowned work in robotic and distance telementoring surgery. Dr. Ivar Mendez is the Fred H. Wigmore Professor and Unified Head of the Department of Surgery at the University of Saskatchewan. His research focuses on functional neurosurgery, brain repair, stem cells, robotic neurosurgery and computerized systems in neurosurgical applications. In 2002, Dr. Mendez and his team performed the world’s first long distance telementoring neurosurgery. In 2013, he reported the first remote programming for neuromodulation devices. Dr. Mendez was the President of the Canadian Neuromodulation Society (CNS) from 2009 – 2012 which, under his leadership, has promoted the access of neuromodulation therapy to all citizens of Canada.
Our scientific portion of the day will take place in the Paetzold Auditorium of Vancouver General Hospital and conclude with an awards reception and dinner at the UBC Golf Course. WB & MH Chung Research Day is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the Department’s success in the creation of new health knowledge through research, and an opportunity to foster an atmosphere of collaborative research and interaction.