Orthopaedics Fellowships
Orthopaedics fellowships at Sinai Health offer advanced training in complex musculoskeletal care at Mount Sinai Hospital, an internationally recognized academic health-science centre fully affiliated with the University of Toronto.
Fellows work closely with expert surgeons, gaining experience in surgical care, ambulatory clinics and clinical research. These fellowships build the skills needed to manage challenging hip and knee reconstruction, limb-salvage procedures and orthopaedic tumours while contributing to innovations that improve patient outcomes in Canada and around the world.
Fellowship opportunities
Musculoskeletal oncology fellowship
This fellowship focuses on orthopaedic oncology. Fellows train under the direct supervision of Drs. Peter Ferguson, Kim Tsoi and Jay Wunder.
Orthopaedic oncology includes the following:
- Recognition of the natural history of musculoskeletal tumours
- Diagnostic work-up and staging of bone and soft tissue tumours
- Principles of limb salvage surgery and adjuvant treatment (chemotherapy and radiation therapy)
- Appropriate intervention for metastatic disease of the extremity and pelvis
Fellows will spend approximately two days per week in the operating room, one and a half days in the Oncology clinic at Mount Sinai Hospital, one half day in the Sarcoma clinic at Princess Margaret Hospital, and one day doing clinical research.
This fellowship focuses on highly specialized surgery with an emphasis on the diagnosis and management of orthopaedic tumours. For this reason, the fellowship is better suited to individuals seeking an academic career. The fellowship is for one year and a maximum of two years. Opportunities to participate in a formal research program are also available.
Supervisors
Current fellows
- Dr. Juan Alfonso Barriga Moreno, research fellow — Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Dr. Maria Antonia Gomez Sierra — La Fundación Valle del Lili y la Universidad Icesi, Bogotá, Colombia
- Dr. Sarah Lindsay — Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif.
- Dr. Oatile Phakathi — University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Contact
To learn more about this fellowship, contact Dr. Peter Ferguson by phone at 416-586-4800 ext. 8687, by fax at 416-586-8397, or by email at [email protected].
Visit the University of Toronto’s Postgraduate Medical Education website for more information on this and other fellowships at Sinai Health.
Lower-extremity reconstruction fellowship
This fellowship focuses on lower-extremity reconstruction. Fellows train under the direct supervision of Drs. Allan Gross, Seper Ekhtiari, Paul Kuzyk, Oleg Safir and Jesse Wolfstadt.
Lower-extremity reconstruction includes the following:
- Primary hip and knee replacement, including enabling technologies such as robotic-assisted joint replacement and computer-assisted navigation
- Partial knee replacement
- Complex primary hip and knee replacement
- Revision hip and knee replacement, with an emphasis on the management of periprosthetic joint infection and restoration of bone stock
- Osteotomies about the knee and hip, including the use of fresh osteochondral allografts for post-traumatic defects
Fellows will spend approximately three days per week in the operating room, one day in the ambulatory care setting, and one day doing clinical research. Research is expected to result in at least one scientific presentation and one publication.
This fellowship focuses on highly specialized surgery with an emphasis on revision arthroplasty of the hip and knee. For this reason, the fellowship is better suited to individuals seeking an academic career. The fellowship is for one year.
Supervisors
Current fellows
- Dr. Malik Ali — Dalhousie University
- Dr. Elad Apt — Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
- Dr. Paul Kooner — McGill University
- Dr. Henry Magill — Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, U.K.
- Dr. Justin Upshall — Memorial University
- Dr. Michael Whitcomb — Dalhousie University
Contact
To learn more about this fellowship, contact Christine Harron by phone at 416-586-4800 ext. 4611, by fax at 416-586-5184, or by email at [email protected].
Visit the University of Toronto’s Postgraduate Medical Education website for more information on this and other fellowships at Sinai Health.