2024 Weber Memorial Lecture

The Department of Anesthesia at Sunnybrook Hospital invites you to the 2024 Weber Memorial Lecture.

Title: Compassion – Driven Burn Care: Stories, Reminders and Lessons

Speaker: Dr. Robert Cartotto, MD FRCS(C), Staff Surgeon, Ross Tilley Burn Centre, President, American Burn Association

Biography: Dr. Robert Cartotto is a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, and Burn Intensivist at the Ross Tilley Burn Centre in Toronto, Canada. He is a Professor in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, at the University of Toronto. He currently serves as the President of the American Burn Association. His research interests span the continuum of burn care and he has been particularly interested in burn shock resuscitation, lung injury and mechanical ventilation after burns, surgical techniques and outcomes for burns of the hands and face, and the development of clinical practice guidelines for burn care. Outside of work he prefers being at his cabin rather than the city, and he is an amateur artist and avid backcountry camper.

Date and time: Friday April 5, 2024 @ 7:30 AM

Venue: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, McLaughlin Lecture Theatre (Room EG-61), 2075 Bayview Ave, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5

Please click link to join the webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81939765334?pwd=yFgpPagJWgPk7GygwZjzZjzxiy7eKD.1