U of T MIGS community accomplishments highlighted at AAGL's Global Congress

Our Department's MIGS community was well-represented at the AAGL's 52nd Global Congress on MIGS in Nashville in November.

Here are a few of the highlights:

• Dr. Peter Thiel, MIGS fellow at Mount Sinai, was the winner of the Charles Koh Fellows’ Suturing Contest. Dr. Thiel received the award directly from Koh, the inventor of the Koh technique for laparoscopic suturing.
• Dr. Grace Liu led the AAGL’s second annual world suturing competition. Dr. Liu, an associate professor, was one of five judging faculty for the competition, which had one category for fellows and another for AAGL members. Dr. Liu and Dr. Jamie Kroft were also faculty for the half-day laparoscopic suturing post-graduate course.
• Dr. Ally Murji co-chaired a successful post-graduate course on the surgical management of non-tubal ectopic pregnancies, along with Dr. Mostafa Atri and Dr. Meghan McGrattan (MIGS fellow at Mount Sinai).
• Dr. Chelsie Warshafsky, an assistant professor in our Department, won the Jerome J. Hoffman Foundation of the AAGL Signature Award, recognizing the highest-scoring abstract and best scientific work on MIGS by a physician-in-training. Dr. Warshafsky received the award for her surgical video completed in fellowship entitled “From Imaging to Visualization: Seeing the Future of Endometriosis Care.”