Resident Pearls: Pediatric Otolaryngologists Share Tips for Safer, Smarter Tonsillectomies

Ms. Spencer is a fourth-year medical student at Queen’s University School of Medicine in Kingston, Ontario. Mr. Nanthakumar is a fourth-year medical student at Queen’s University School of Medicine in Kingston, Ontario. Ms. Wilson is a research associate for the division of paediatric surgery at the Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ontario. Mr. Davidson is the research coordinator for the division of paediatric surgery at the Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ontario. Dr. Strychowsky is a pediatric otolaryngologist and division chief of pediatric otolaryngology at Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre, and associate professor at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University in London, Ontario. Dr. Bhargava is a pediatric otolaryngologist at Sheffield Children’s Hospital in the U.K., senior clinical lecturer at the  University of Sheffield Faculty of Health, a visiting researcher at the Advanced Food Innovation Centre at Sheffield Hallam University, and co-director of SMELL (Sheffield cheMosensory Exploratory Laboratory). Dr. Lawlor is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, an attending pediatric otolaryngologist at Boston Children’s Hospital, an editor at JAMA Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, and chair-elect of the Young Physicians Section of the Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Burns is a pediatric otolaryngologist at Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane, Australia, senior lecturer in otolaryngology at the University of Queensland, incoming president of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Paediatric Otolaryngology, and editor-in-chief of the Australian Journal of Otolaryngology. Dr. Fowler is a general otolaryngologist at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and an assistant professor in the department of surgery at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dr. Graham is a pediatric otolaryngologist at the IWK Health Centre, an associate professor at Dalhousie University, both in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and a Triological Society

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