Garry Cornel, F.R.C.S.(C)

Chief
Division Cardiovascular Surgery
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario

About the Speaker

Dr. Garry Cornel, whose training is in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Ottawa, and Director of the Division Cardio-vascular Surgery at Childrens' Hospital of Eastern Ontario.

Dr. Cornel's interests have been in the surgery of congenital heart disease and the brain during cardiac surgery, and he has run an active and fruitful research program during the past five or six years with almost thirty publications and presentations during that period. These included: "Holly's Miracle, ECMO in a case of hæmolytic uræmic syndrome," given in 1996 at the Medtronic Annual Corporate Meeting.

For 17 years, prior to taking up his current position, Dr. Cornel practiced cardiac surgery mainly at the Janeway Child Health Centre in Newfoundland. Before moving to Newfoundland, he practiced general surgery (and almost everything else) in Inuvik, in the Canadian far North. From 1982-1988, Dr. Cornel was Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee for the Canadian Heart & Stroke Foundation, Newfoundland Division.

Dr. Cornel received his medical training at The London Hospital Medical College at the University of London. He completed training in cardiology at London Hospital and pediatric surgery at Birmingham Children's Hospital and spent a year in cardio-thoracic surgery and pathology at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children before taking up a position as Research Fellow and Chief Resident in Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery at Buffalo Childrens Hospital.