Physician
Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Ottawa; Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, The Ottawa Hospital, Canada
Dr. Carolyn Nessim is a Surgical Oncologist at the Ottawa Hospital. She completed her general surgery residency and Masters in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Montreal and did her Surgical Oncology Fellowships at the University of Toronto and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia. Her clinical practice focuses on the treatment of patients with Melanoma, Soft Tissue Sarcoma/GIST and Gastric cancer.
She is also an Assistant Professor of Surgery with the University of Ottawa. She developed and is currently the Program Director for the Complex General Surgical Oncology (CGSO) Fellowship training program at the University of Ottawa. She is a Clinician Investigator in the Cancer Therapeutic Program (CTP) at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI). Dr. Nessim has several peer-reviewed publications and does large database research on cancer outcomes. She also collaborates with scientists at OHRI doing some translational research and is currently working on a project about building a cell atlas of human sarcoma through single-cell RNA-sequencing. She is a member of the Canadian Melanoma Research Network (CMRN) as well as Chair of the Research Evaluation Committee of the Trans-Atlantic Australasian Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Working Group (TARPSWG).