E35 Christian Finley On Quality In Cancer Care

Dr. Christian Finley trained in General Surgery in at UBC in Vancouver, BC and thereafter completed his training in Thoracic Surgery in Toronto at UofT. After completing advanced training in Leuven, Belgium and England, he started working at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton in 2010. He completed his Masters of Public Health at Harvard University. Since joining the Division of Thoracic Surgery, Dr Finley has been awarded over $600 000 in research funding for his active research program in thoracic surgery quality improvement and has put considerable effort towards developing the collaborative clinical research program with his Thoracic Surgery colleagues. He is the proud father of three crazy girls.In this episode, we talk with Dr. Finely about his work with the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) in demonstrating disparities in surgical cancer care across Canada.1. The spatial epidemiology of trauma: the potential of geographic information science to organize data and reveal patterns of injury and services. http://canjsurg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/51-5-389.pdf2. Julia Abelson. https://www.mcmasterforum.org/lets-collaborate/people/bio/julia-abelson3. Understanding Failure to Rescue and Improving Safety Culture. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4385410/4. Pan-Canadian standards for cancer surgery. Canadian Journal of Surgery. https://canjsurg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/62-4-S170.pdf5. Surgical Skill and Complication Rates after Bariatric Surgery. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa13006256. "Personal Best" by Atul Gawande in the New Yorker about coaching in the operating room. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/03/personal-best