Our Researchers

Dr. Elise Graham:

Dr. Elise Graham is a newly recruited Pediatric Otolaryngologist at the IWK.  Dr. Graham completed her medical education at Dalhousie University. She trained in the Otolaryngology residency program at Dalhousie, followed by a Fellowship in Pediatric Otolaryngology at the University of Utah.

Dr Graham received an establishment grant to help foster her research interests in all areas of pediatric otolaryngology. She focuses on airway, feeding, swallowing as well as breastfeeding and ankyloglossia.   She is focusing on an emerging research project profiling and examining the experiences of women in surgery, particularly motherhood and lactation.

Dr. Graham is the newly named Director of Research in the Division of Otolaryngology and is a member of the Department of Surgery Research Committee.

Dr. Alison Wallace

is an Associate Professor in the Division of Thoracic Surgery.  Dr. Wallace is a graduate of University of the University of British Columbia Medical School and completed both her residency in General Surgery. Dr. Wallace pursued her PhD in Pathology and Post Doctoral Fellowship at Columbia University. She completed a Surgical Fellowship in Thoracic Surgery at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Wallace is a cross appointed clinical scientist in the Department of Pathology with the Faculty of Medicine.  As a surgeon-scientist, Dr. Wallace studies the molecular mechanisms and how smoke and other environmental exposures impact the development of lung diseases like cancer and COPD.  She partners well with leading basic scientist, Dr. Graham Dellaire in the Department of Pathology.  She is presently a primary supervisor for 3 graduate students.  Dr. Her clinical practice primarily involves the management of benign and malignant diseases of the lung, pleura, mediastinum and esophagus using minimally invasive and robotic techniques.

Dr. Wallace is a site lead and co-applicant on a Canadian Cancer Society Breakthrough Teams Grant, “Exposome profiling as an emerging tool for lung cancer early detection and prevention” $5,197,880.00.

Dr. Wallace sits on the Department of Surgery Research Committee, she has helped steer sub committees for Research Day Planning and in house research metric revisions and updates.

Her recent publications include: