Dr. Shady Ashamalla is a surgical oncologist at Sunnybrook’s Odette Cancer Centre with special expertise in minimally invasive surgery for cancers of the lower gastrointestinal tract. He also has extensive academic experience in surgical education and surgical simulation. Dr. Ashamalla’s practice is completely devoted to lower gastrointestinal cancer surgery, and he strives to advance minimally invasive approaches in cancer surgery. He has been appointed to the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor and surgeon educator, with academic interests in surgical simulation and knowledge translation. Dr. Shady Ashamalla obtained his undergraduate Honours degree from the University of Guelph in Biomedical Sciences followed by a Master of Science degree at Queen's University. He then completed his medical degree and a residency in General Surgery at the University of Toronto. Dr. Ashamalla then went on to complete advanced fellowship training in both Minimally Invasive Surgery and Surgical Oncology.
Selected publications from PubMed
Type I or Type II Endometrial Carcinoma? Role of BRCA1 Immunohistochemistry.
Eldegwi SAA, Amin MM, Ashamalla SA, Alghandour R, Nagib RM
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2024 Jul 1;25(7):2311-2317 doi: 10.31557/APJCP.2024.25.7.2311.
Minimally Invasive Compared to Open Colorectal Cancer Resection for Older Adults: A Population-based Analysis of Long-term Functional Outcomes.
Behman R, Chesney T, Coburn N, Haas B, Bubis L, Zuk V, Ashamalla S, Zhao H, Mahar A, Hallet J, REcovery after Surgical Therapy for Older adults Research – Cancer (RESTORE-Cancer) group
Ann Surg. 2023 Feb 1;277(2):291-298 doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000005151.
Efficacy and safety of extended duration to perioperative thromboprophylaxis with low molecular weight heparin on disease-free survival after surgical resection of colorectal cancer (PERIOP-01): multicentre, open label, randomised controlled trial.
Auer RC, Ott M, Karanicolas P, Brackstone MR, Ashamalla S, Weaver J, Tagalakis V, Boutros M, Stotland P, Marulanda AC, Moloo H, Jayaraman S, Patel S, Le Gal G, Spadafora S, MacLellan S, Trottier D, Jonker D, Asmis T, Mallick R, Pecarskie A, Ramsay T, Carrier M, PERIOP-01 investigators
BMJ. 2022 Sep 13;378:e071375 doi: 10.1136/bmj-2022-071375.
Early-Age-Onset Colorectal Cancer in Canada: Evidence, Issues and Calls to Action.
De Vera MA, Gill S, Ashamalla S, Schiller D, Brenner DR, Wong C, Wildgoose P, Esplen MJ, Lieu C, Fitzpatrick R, O'Sullivan DE, Servidio-Italiano F
Curr Oncol. 2022 Apr 29;29(5):3149-3159 doi: 10.3390/curroncol29050256.
Metformin with neoadjuvant chemoradiation to improve pathologic response in rectal cancer: A pilot phase I/II trial.
Wong CS, Chu W, Ashamalla S, Fenech D, Berry S, Kiss A, Koritzinsky M
Clin Transl Radiat Oncol. 2021 Sep;30:60-64 doi: 10.1016/j.ctro.2021.07.001.
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