CSCRS Awards
The “Dr. Robin McLeod” Award is presented to the best Resident research podium presentation and the prize is in the amount of $500.00. The CSCRS Award is bestowed annually at the Canadian Surgery Forum to recognize the “Best Paper” in colorectal surgery.
Past Winners
2025 Best Poster
Dr. Susan Muncner
Improving rectal cancer care by developing an automated artificial intelligence algorithm for magnetic resonance imaging interpretation: a pilot study.
Dr. Raphaëlla Rosebush-Mercier
Optimal Timing for Diverting Loop Ileostomy Reversal: A Single Centre Retrospective Review.
2025 Best Podium
Dr. Adom Bondzi-Simpson
Patient, provider and institutional factors associated with wait time benchmarks for colorectal cancer surgery: a population-based cross-sectional study.
Dr. Richard Garfinkle
Impact of a Patient-Centered Program for Low Anterior Resection Syndrome: A Multicenter, Single-Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial.
2024 Best Poster
Dr. Elizabeth Clement
A picture is worth a thousand words: graphic narrative to supplement consent for low anterior resection.
Dr. Vanessa Wiseman
Total Neoadjuvant Therapy as standard of care for locally advanced rectal cancer at a regional cancer centre: Completeness of Treatment, Surgical Quality and postoperative complications.
2024 Best Podium
Dr. Lily Park
The Association between Preoperative Anemia and Healthcare Resource Use and Outcomes After Colorectal Surgery: A Population-Based Cohort Study.
2023 Best Posters
Dr. Lily Park
Safety and Efficacy of Intravenous Antifibrinolytic Use in Colorectal Surgery: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Dr. Vanessa Wiseman
Rectal Cancer in the Very Young (Age <40) – More Treatment Worse Survival, A Population-Based Study.
2023 Best Podium
Dr. Roy Hajjar (Clinical Award)
Modulation of the Gut Microbiota with Fermentable Fibers and 5-Aminosalicylate to Prevent Peri-anastomotic and Metastatic Recurrence of Colorectal Cancer.
Dr. Roy Hajjar (Basic Science Award)
A Mucosa-Adherent Bacterium Impairs Colorectal Anastomotic Healing by Upregulating Interleukin-17: The Role of Low-Grade Inflammation as a Driver of Anastomotic Leak
2019 Best Poster
Dr. Marylise Boutros
Treatment Failure After Conservative Management of Acute Diverticulitis: A Nationwide Readmission Database Analysis
2019 Best Podium
Dr. Marylise Boutros
A North American Single-Blinded Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial for Outpatient Non-Antibiotic Management of Acute Uncomplicated Diverticulitis (MUD TRIAL): Feasibility and Lessons Learned
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2018 Best Poster
Dr. Sepehr Khorasani
Non operative management compared to radical resection of locally advanced rectal cancer following complete clinical response: A Markov decision analysis
2018 Best Podium
Dr. Aristithes Doumouras
The effect of simethicone on postoperative ileus in patients undergoing colorectal surgery (SPOT), a randomized controlled trial
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2017 Best Podium
Dr. Basheer Elsolh
Comparison of Conflict of Interests between Robotic and Non-Robotic Surgery Studies in Colorectal Surgery: A Case-Control Study
2017 Best Poster
Dr. Nathalie Wong-Chong
Right sided colectomies for diverticulitis have worse outcomes compared to left sided colectomies for diverticulitis: An ACS NSQIP Analysis of predictors and outcomes
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2015 Dr. Robin McLeod Award
Dr. Oluwatomilayo Daodu
Definitive Management of Fistula-in-ano Using Draining Setons
2015 Best Poster
Dr. Richard Garfinkle
Diverticular Abscess Managed by Long Term Definitive Non-operative Intent Is Safe
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2014 Best Paper
Dr. Richard Garfinkle
Tumor Budding Predicts Recurrence After Curative Resection for T2N0 Colorectal Cancer
2014 Best Poster Award
Dr. Christine Keng
Rate of positive circumferential radial margins in rectal cancer is dependent on pathologist
and surgeon performance, and on the definition of a positive CRM: data from Local Health Integration Network 4
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2010
Dr. Devon Richardson
Self Reported Patterns of Rectal Cancer among General Surgeons in Canada
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2009
Dr. Sean Forbes
LongTerm Outcomes in Young Adult Survivors of Colorectal Cancer
Dr. Cagla Eskicioglu
The Use of Tailored Knowledge Translation Strategy to Change Bowel Preparation Practices
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2008
Dr. Heather Redstone
The effects of glucagon-like peptide 2 & GLP-2 mimetibody on colonic anastomotic healing in a hypoxic rat model
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2006
Dr. George Zogopoulos
Characterization of Germline EPHB2 Variants in Familial Colorectal Cancer