Dr. Sherif G.S. Emil
- Professor of Surgery聽聽
- Director, Division of Pediatric Surgery聽
- Mirella and Lino Saputo Foundation Chair in Pediatric Surgical Education and Patient and Family-Centered Pediatric Surgical Care.聽聽
- Associate Chair for Education and Departmental Citizenship
MD, CM, FRCSC, FACS, FAAP
Currently supervising students
- Neonatal bowel obstruction & perforation聽
- Abdominal wall defects聽
- Pediatric acute gastrointestinal conditions聽
- 础辫辫别苍诲颈肠颈迟颈蝉听
- Gastroesophageal reflux聽
- Pain Management聽
- Outcomes Assessment聽
My research focuses on pediatric surgery clinical outcomes, emphasizing studies that can change practice to benefit children and optimize use of healthcare resources. Although I have a wide spectrum of clinical interests, my work focuses on congenital surgical anomalies, appendicitis (the most common acute surgical illness), abdominal wall hernias, and chest wall anomalies. In addition, I am conducting studies that explore patient-centred care in pediatric surgery, such as patient-reported outcomes in pediatric surgery (PROPS), shared decision-making, and the impact of a child's surgical illness on the family unit. I conduct most of my studies through CanCORPS (the Canadian Consortium for Research in Pediatric Surgery), an organization whose founding I led in 2018, and through the support of the Lina and Mirella Saputo Foundation Chair in Pediatric Surgical Education and Patient and Family-Centered Care. Finally, I have a strong interest in globalizing surgical education and lead a number of programs that help increase surgical capacity in low- and middle-income countries through education, mentoring, and provision of clinical services.聽
- Neonatal intestinal obstruction聽
- Fetal evaluation and prenatal counseling聽
- Acute abdominal conditions in children.聽
- Minimally invasive surgery聽
Health sciences education, medical student identity formation, case-based surgical education, and globalizing medical education.聽
Sherif Emil, MD, FACS, FRCS(c), FAAP, was born in Egypt and grew up in a number of countries where his parents, an orthopedic surgeon and a general practitioner, were providing medical mission work. As an only child, he developed an interest in medicine early. He completed a degree in chemical engineering at the University of Michigan and, after a year of graduate school at Rice University in Houston, Texas, enrolled in the MD, CM, program at McGill. He was attracted to the field of pediatric surgery early in his medical education as it combined his engineering and problem-solving background with his desire to work with children and families. In fact, his very first clinical elective was at Shriners Children's Canada. That experience inspired a desire to work with children with orthopedic disabilities, and spurred him to find innovative solutions to clinical problems and congenital anomalies.聽
After medical school at McGill, he returned to Southern California, where his family had settled, to begin his surgical training at Loma Linda University. His commitment to pediatric surgery prompted him to take two years away from clinical training to perform bench and clinical research in pediatric surgery. He published several landmark papers early in his career.聽
In 1999, he returned to McGill to train in pediatric surgery. After completing his fellowship, he went back to California and joined the University of California Irvine Department of Surgery. He was recruited back to the Montreal Children's Hospital to lead pediatric surgery in November 2008. Shortly afterwards, he launched the chest wall anomaly center at Shriners Children's, creating a multi-disciplinary team that offers unique expertise to children of all ages who suffer from chest wall deformities. This center has grown to be the largest in Canada and one of the most prominent in the world. In addition to providing comprehensive care and counseling to thousands of patients, the center has produced a number of sentinel publications that have led the field of chest wall anomalies.聽
Dr. Emil calls patient-centered care the bookend of medicine -- where medicine starts and ends. He performs all his clinical, academic and administrative duties with this principle as the foundation.聽
