Gribur
Well-known member
Hi everyone. I am wondering if there is a resource to find out about surgeons in ontario canada? I am obviously the same as everyone else who is in my shoes and would like to have the best possible surgeon to do my surgery. I see a lot of you are from the United States so I am looking for advice from fellow canadian patients. I am also interested in the top ranked hospitals in Ontario to have heart surgery performed. Suggestions, links etc are all very welcome. I do have a meeting with a surgeon coming up and i found out he is working a university hospital in london and i have found a bit of info on him.
Dr. Ray Guo
Division of Cardiac Surgery
London Health Sciences Centre
Program Director
For over seven generations, members of Dr. Ray Guo’s family
have practiced medicine. His father was an internist, and his
son, Lijing is currently enrolled in medical school at Western.
Dr. Guo pursued cardiac surgery in 1980, completing his training
in 1990.
“I was drawn to cardiac surgery because it was a real challenge
with high efficiency, high precision and high stress. I thrived
under these conditions. As an ambitious young man, I wanted
to catch that rush,” says Dr. Guo. “It is definitely high stress
but also highly rewarding because the people who come to see
me are so sick and we return them back to a totally normal life.
It’s a wonderful feeling to see the patients do well year after
year following the surgery. Cardiac surgery is also a rapidly
evolving profession, so there is a lot to keep learning and improving
upon, which I absolutely enjoy.”
In 1990 Dr. Guo obtained the opportunity to travel to a foreign
country for more experience. He was slated to go to Denmark,
but shortly before he left he received an offer as a Clinical Research
Fellow from The University of Toronto and decided to
come to Canada. He worked at Sunnybrook Hospital and Toronto
General Hospital for about a year and a half, after which
time he received a letter from Dr. M L. Myers, Chief of Cardiovascular
Surgery, at Victoria Hospital at the time offering him a
position in London, and he took it. He was further trained as a
Clinical Fellow at Victoria Hospital until 1997. Dr. Guo returned
to China to set up a cardiovascular surgery program and
led a heart institute – Asia-Pacific, now Guang-Zhou Heart
Institute in Guang-Zhou from 2000 to 2005. Dr. Guo has been
recruited back to Western since January, 2005.
Recently he traveled with Drs. Denstedt, Ross, and Hernandez-
Alejandro to Chengdu, China to explore opportunities for collaboration
with the West China School of Medicine. While he
was in Chendu, he preformed live cardiac surgery and gave a
keynote talk about ischemic mitral
regurgitation, something relatively
rare in China.
“Ischemic mitral regurgitation is
caused by coronary artery disease
(CAD), and the incidence of
CAD in China is much lower
than in Canada. Their experience
at West China Hospital in dealing
with this is limited, and we can
really help them. The majority of
their work is with Rheumatic
valvular heart disease, so they can
definitely help us in that area
because we see very few cases of that here in Canada.”
Dr. Guo enjoyed traveling back to China and sees the partnership
with West China Hospital as being extremely beneficial to
both groups.
“As an ethnic Chinese you want to contribute and help people
there. I see this new partnership as mutually beneficial to both
parties. I am looking forward to helping colleagues at West
China Hospital set up a standardized training program and joint
research projects, and I am extremely pleased that they can also
help us to teach our residents about valvular heart disease and
different types of case loads we don’t often see here.”
Please comment and if you can, help me out. cheers
Larry
Dr. Ray Guo
Division of Cardiac Surgery
London Health Sciences Centre
Program Director
For over seven generations, members of Dr. Ray Guo’s family
have practiced medicine. His father was an internist, and his
son, Lijing is currently enrolled in medical school at Western.
Dr. Guo pursued cardiac surgery in 1980, completing his training
in 1990.
“I was drawn to cardiac surgery because it was a real challenge
with high efficiency, high precision and high stress. I thrived
under these conditions. As an ambitious young man, I wanted
to catch that rush,” says Dr. Guo. “It is definitely high stress
but also highly rewarding because the people who come to see
me are so sick and we return them back to a totally normal life.
It’s a wonderful feeling to see the patients do well year after
year following the surgery. Cardiac surgery is also a rapidly
evolving profession, so there is a lot to keep learning and improving
upon, which I absolutely enjoy.”
In 1990 Dr. Guo obtained the opportunity to travel to a foreign
country for more experience. He was slated to go to Denmark,
but shortly before he left he received an offer as a Clinical Research
Fellow from The University of Toronto and decided to
come to Canada. He worked at Sunnybrook Hospital and Toronto
General Hospital for about a year and a half, after which
time he received a letter from Dr. M L. Myers, Chief of Cardiovascular
Surgery, at Victoria Hospital at the time offering him a
position in London, and he took it. He was further trained as a
Clinical Fellow at Victoria Hospital until 1997. Dr. Guo returned
to China to set up a cardiovascular surgery program and
led a heart institute – Asia-Pacific, now Guang-Zhou Heart
Institute in Guang-Zhou from 2000 to 2005. Dr. Guo has been
recruited back to Western since January, 2005.
Recently he traveled with Drs. Denstedt, Ross, and Hernandez-
Alejandro to Chengdu, China to explore opportunities for collaboration
with the West China School of Medicine. While he
was in Chendu, he preformed live cardiac surgery and gave a
keynote talk about ischemic mitral
regurgitation, something relatively
rare in China.
“Ischemic mitral regurgitation is
caused by coronary artery disease
(CAD), and the incidence of
CAD in China is much lower
than in Canada. Their experience
at West China Hospital in dealing
with this is limited, and we can
really help them. The majority of
their work is with Rheumatic
valvular heart disease, so they can
definitely help us in that area
because we see very few cases of that here in Canada.”
Dr. Guo enjoyed traveling back to China and sees the partnership
with West China Hospital as being extremely beneficial to
both groups.
“As an ethnic Chinese you want to contribute and help people
there. I see this new partnership as mutually beneficial to both
parties. I am looking forward to helping colleagues at West
China Hospital set up a standardized training program and joint
research projects, and I am extremely pleased that they can also
help us to teach our residents about valvular heart disease and
different types of case loads we don’t often see here.”
Please comment and if you can, help me out. cheers
Larry
