Colorectal Surgery
MD MEd. FRCPSC,Colorectal Surgeon at Royal Columbian and Eagle Ridge Hospitals, Vancouver, Canada
A colorectal surgeon at Royal Columbian and Eagle Ridge Hospitals since 2012 and Clinical Instructor, Department of Surgery, UBC, Elena Vikis is at the forefront of an international effort to introduce a new standard of care for one of the most common and deadliest cancers.
After starting practice in 2009, she became an early adopter of a promising new surgical technique for treating rectal lesions and cancers. Today, Dr. Vikis has become a leading practitioner in Canada of the procedure known as transanal minimally invasive surgery (TAMIS). She has performed more TAMIS cases than anyone else in the country, introduced the new approach to surgical colleagues, co-organized the first congress on this topic in Canada, and presented at conferences in the US and Europe. In addition, she established sub-specialized colorectal surgical services, including an MIS Fellowship program, for Fraser Health, the largest health region in BC.
Dr. Vikis is a proud supporter of Colon Cancer Canada.
Selected publications from PubMed
Transanal total mesorectal excision for abdominoperineal resection is associated with poor oncological outcomes in rectal cancer patients: A word of caution from a multicentric Canadian cohort study.
Caycedo-Marulanda A, Verschoor CP, Brown CP, Karimuddin A, Raval M, Phang T, Vikis E, Melich G, Patel SV, Canadian taTME Expert COllaboration (CaTaCO)
Colorectal Dis. 2022 Apr;24(4):380-387 doi: 10.1111/codi.16033.
Canadian taTME expert collaboration (CaTaCO) position statement.
Caycedo-Marulanda A, Brown CJ, Chadi SA, Ashamalla S, Lee L, Stotland P, Hameed U, Melich G, Ma G, Letarte F, Karimuddin A, Quereshy F, Phang T, Raval M, Vikis E, Liberman AS, Bouchard A, Bouchard P, Drolet S
Surg Endosc. 2020 Sep;34(9):3748-3753 doi: 10.1007/s00464-020-07680-8.
Resection of ruptured hepatic teratoma in an adult.
Ramkumar J, Best A, Gurung A, Dufresne AM, Melich G, Vikis E, MacKenzie S
Int J Surg Case Rep. 2018;53:414-419 doi: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2018.11.032.
Trans-anal minimally invasive surgery: A new technique to avoid peritoneal entry.
Dufresne AM, Withers R, Ramkumar J, Mackenzie S, Melich G, Vikis E
Int J Surg Case Rep. 2018;52:11-15 doi: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2018.09.029.
Cytomegalovirus duodenitis associated with life-threatening duodenal hemorrhage in an immunocompetent patient: A case report.
Shen L, Youssef D, Abu-Abed S, Malhotra SK, Atkinson K, Vikis E, Melich G, MacKenzie S
Int J Surg Case Rep. 2017;33:102-106 doi: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2017.02.029.
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