Portrait de Dan Poenaru

Dan Poenaru

Membre académique associé
Professeur, McGill University, Département de chirurgie pédiatrique
Sujets de recherche
Apprentissage automatique médical
IA en santé
IA et santé

Biographie

Dan Poenaru est professeur de chirurgie pédiatrique à l’Université McGill et chercheur principal à l’Institut de recherche du Centre universitaire de santé McGill, à Montréal. Il est titulaire d’une maîtrise en éducation aux professions de la santé et en développement international, et d’un doctorat en stratégie et gestion de la santé.

Chercheur financé par le Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS) et les Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada (IRSC) dans le domaine des soins chirurgicaux centrés sur le patient, il est également chef du laboratoire CommiSur de l’Université McGill, directeur de la bourse Jean-Martin-Laberge en chirurgie pédiatrique mondiale et membre fondateur de l’Initiative mondiale pour la chirurgie infantile (GICS).

Ses domaines d’intérêt actuels sont la communication chirurgicale et l’enseignement médical assistés par la technologie, y compris l’IA, la réalité virtuelle et les dispositifs de santé numériques, les soins chirurgicaux centrés sur le patient et le développement de la capacité de recherche chirurgicale mondiale.

Étudiants actuels

Doctorat - McGill
Maîtrise recherche - McGill
Doctorat - McGill
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
Doctorat - McGill
Doctorat - Université de Sherbrooke
Co-superviseur⋅e :
Doctorat - Université de Sherbrooke
Co-superviseur⋅e :
Maîtrise recherche - McGill

Publications

The Impact of a Pediatric Surgery Fundamentals Boot Camp on New Surgical Trainees' Perceived Knowledge and Confidence Levels.
Julia Ferreira
Simon Rahman
Fabio Botelho
Farhan Banji
W. A. Igrine
Gianluca Bertolizio
Sam Daniel
Thomas Engelhardt
Chantal Frigon
Lily H P Nguyen
Catherine Paquet
Pramod Puligandla
Hussein Wissanji
Davinia Withington
Yasmine Yousef
Sherif Emil
Untold stories: A qualitative investigation of patient and family experiences with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
Alexandra Dimmer
Zanib Nafees
Sabrina Beauseigle
Franco A Carnevale
Elena Guadagno
Pramod Puligandla
A systematic review of risk stratification for pediatric appendicitis
Mahshid Mortazavi
Alexandra Dimmer
Elena Guadagno
Sherif Emil
Corrigendum to "Child- and Proxy-reported Differences in Patient-reported Outcome and Experience Measures in Pediatric Surgery: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis" [Journal of Pediatric Surgery 60 (2025) 162172].
Zanib Nafees
Siena O'Neill
Alexandra Dimmer
Elena Guadagno
Julia Ferreira
Nancy Mayo
Corrigendum to "Child- and Proxy-reported Differences in Patient-reported Outcome and Experience Measures in Pediatric Surgery: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis" [Journal of Pediatric Surgery 60 (2025) 162172].
Zanib Nafees
Siena O'Neill
Alexandra Dimmer
Elena Guadagno
Julia Ferreira
Nancy Mayo
Corrigendum to "Virtual Reality for Pediatric Trauma Education - A Preliminary Face and Content Validation Study" [Journal of Pediatric Surgery 60 (2025) 161951].
F. Botelho
Said Ashkar
Tj Matthews
Elena Guadagno
Corrigendum to "Virtual Reality for Pediatric Trauma Education - A Preliminary Face and Content Validation Study" [Journal of Pediatric Surgery 60 (2025) 161951].
F. Botelho
Said Ashkar
Tj Matthews
Elena Guadagno
Clarifying a working definition for ‘precision communication’: a scoping review of medical literature on communication
Bao-Lam Pham
Brigitte N. Durieux
Amanda Bianco
Corinne Cécyre-Chartrand
Elena Guadagno
Amalia M. Issa
Determinants of surgical approach to pediatric appendicitis in Brazil.
Ayla Gerk
Paulo Henrique Moreira Melo
Luiza Telles
Justina O. Seyi-Olajide
Dunya Moghul
Gabriel Schnitman
Cristina Camargo
David P. Mooney
Joaquim Bustorff-Silva
Impact of Reducing Time Lived With Colostomies on Social Stigma Affecting Children With Anorectal Malformations in Southwestern Uganda.
Felix Oyania
Caroline Q. Stephens
Sarah Ullrich
Meera Kotagal
Amy M. Shui
Caleb Tuhumwire
G. Rukundo
Joseph Ngonzi
Ava Yap
Francis Bajunirwe
Doruk Ozgediz
BACKGROUND The social stigma of families of children living with colostomies due to anorectal malformation (ARM) is significant in low-incom… (voir plus)e countries (LICs). Improved access to pediatric surgery has resulted in more 1-stage ARM procedures in Southwestern Uganda, avoiding colostomy creation, but the impact on social stigma experienced by families is unknown. We hypothesized that this change would decrease the social stigma experienced by families. METHODS A single-center mixed retrospective and prospective cohort study with combined qualitative data of families of children with ARM who underwent corrective surgery compared the stigma experienced by those with colostomies to those without. The Kilifi Stigma Scale of Epilepsy (KSSE) was used to assess social stigma. Multivariable regression analysis assessed differences in the stigma experienced, controlling for age at diagnosis, rurality, distance traveled, sex, and parental education. Subgroup analysis assessed the impact of colostomy duration on stigma, stratified over parental education. RESULTS Patient/family dyads with 238 ARM were included; 177 (74%) received a colostomy. Most patients were male (51%), lived in rural areas (71%), and had parents with primary school education (65%). For those without a colostomy, the median KSSE was 0 (Q1-Q3 0-0), compared to 11 (Q1-Q3 3-20) for colostomy. On multivariable analysis, after controlling for age at diagnosis, rurality, distance traveled, sex, and parental education attainment, families of patients with ARM who received a colostomy had a median KSSE score 7.8 points higher than those who did not receive a colostomy (coefficient 7.78, 95% 3.14-12.43, and p = 0.001). When the duration of colostomy (in years) was examined, the median KSSE score increased by 1.58 points for each additional year for a patient who had a colostomy (IRR 1.58, 95% CI: 0.76-2.40, and p  0.001). CONCLUSION Adopting a 1-stage ARM repair for the select types, which avoids colostomy creation, significantly reduces the exper
Impact of Reducing Time Lived With Colostomies on Social Stigma Affecting Children With Anorectal Malformations in Southwestern Uganda.
Felix Oyania
Caroline Q. Stephens
Sarah Ullrich
Meera Kotagal
Amy M. Shui
Caleb Tuhumwire
G. Rukundo
Joseph Ngonzi
Ava Yap
Francis Bajunirwe
Doruk Ozgediz
The use of extended reality in anesthesiology education: a scoping review
Gianluca Bertolizio
Yu Tong Huang
Marta Garbin
Elena Guadagno