2023 Department of Urology Research Day
The Department of Urology will be hosting its annual Research Day on April 4-5, 2023. This year, the event will be held both in-person and virtually. The welcome session starts at 7:30am on April 5th and the program is expected to run until 1:00pm.
The Department of Urology is honored to host Dr. Olivier Traxer as the keynote speaker for our 30th annual Research Day. Dr. Traxer is Professor of Urology and Chairman Urology department Sorbonne University Tenon hospital (Paris-France). He is the director of the GRC#20 (Clinical Research Group #20).
Pr Traxer completed a research-fellowship at Southwestern Medical School, University of Texas-Dallas- USA (Charles Y.C PAK and Margaret Sue PEARLE) to subspecialze in Endourology and kidney stone management.
As an endo-urologist, Pr Traxer’s main goal is to improve the knowledge on urinary stone disease and endourology. Pr Traxer published more than 450 peer-reviewed papers. Pr Traxer is a board member of: the EndoUrological Society, the French Association of Urology (AFU) and EAU board member of the EULIS and ESUT. He is an active member of AAGUS & AAEU. He was also the treasurer of SIU. He received in 2010 (Chicago-WCE) the Arthur Smith Award and the Ralph Clayman Mentor Award in 202. In 2022, he received the St Pauls Medal at BAUS annual meeting. He was also the president of the World Congress of EndoUrology in Paris 2018 (WCE2018) and became a member of the French Academy of Surgery in 2022.
Here is the program for our Research Day [PDF 3.6 MB], which includes a zoom link for the event on April 5th. Please contact urologyresearch@nshealth.ca for the passcode.
Research Day Awards
Congratulations to Dr. Landan MacDonald who received the Dr. S.A. Awad Resident Research Day Award for his talk entitled "Preoperative factors that predict upstading in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer patients undergoing radical cystecomy: Results from a multi-institutional Canadian cohort."
We would also like to congratulate Dr. Liam Power, an incoming PGY1, who received the Doctors Nova Scotia Award for his talk entitled "Change in medical complexity of urological inpatients over a 13-year period."
