Best Hematologist Ottawa Near Me

4worldlovers: A well-versed Surgical Oncologist, Carolyn Nessim, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS works at The Ottawa Hospital, a public academic university teaching hospital offering tertiary care to 1.3 million adults in Ottawa and across Eastern Ontario.

Her main clinical focus is in the treatment of Melanoma and other skin cancers, Soft Tissue Sarcoma/Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST) and Gastric Cancer. She also treats Neurodenocrine Tumors and Advanced Cancer/Carcinomatosis.

She is the regional Co-Chair for the Melanoma Communities of Practice within the Ottawa regional cancer program and member of Cancer Care Ontario’s working group for specific guidelines in the treatment of melanoma. She is also the regional Co-Chair for the Gastric Cancer Communities of Practice.

She also serves on staff at the University of Ottawa, as an Associate Professor of Surgery, teaching medical students and residents and is now the Program Director for the Complex General Surgical Oncology (CGSO) Fellowship Program at the University of Ottawa, for subspecialty training in Surgical Oncology.

Dr. Nessim is actively involved in many surgical and cancer societies. She is the Chair of Education and a member of the Executive and Board of the Canadian Association of General Surgeons (CAGS). She is also the President-Elect of the Canadian Society of Surgical Oncology (CSSO) . She is on the Sarcoma Disease Site Working group of the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) and a member of the Melanoma Measures Panel and technical expert group of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). She is on the Committee on Applicants for the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and is on the Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) Skin Cancer Advisory Board.