James Ellsmere, MD MS FRCSC FACS

Education

• Fellowship in Laparoscopic Surgery (Harvard)
• Fellowship in Endoscopy (Harvard)
• Residency (Dalhousie)
• MD (Dalhousie)
• MSc (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• BSc (Dalhousie)
• BEng (Dalhousie)

Research interests

Focused on developing and evaluating endoscopy based technologies to improve the delivery of health care.  Examples of past projects include: improving the management of early esophageal cancer using endoscopic mucosal ablation techniques, improving the management of achalasia using endoscopic techniques, improving the management of complicated pancreatitis using transgastric endoscopic drainage techniques, improving the management of asthma in patients wiht morbid obesity by combining standard medical therapy with laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and improving the management of type II diabetes in patients with morbid obesity by combining standard medical therapy with laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. 

Memberships

• Royal Canadian College of Surgeons and Physicians
• Canadian Association of General Surgeons
• Canadian Association of Bariatric Physicians and Surgeons
• American College of Surgeons
• Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
• Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
• American Society of Gastrointestinal Endscopy

Other employment

• General and gastrointestinal surgeon, QEII Health Sciences Centre
• Director, Advanced GI Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship Program
• Director, Bariatric Surgery Program