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Dr. Dan Poenaru

Academic title(s): 

Professor

Dr. Dan Poenaru
Contact Information
Email address: 
dan.poenaru [at] mcgill.ca
Department: 
Pediatric Surgery
Division: 
Surgical and Interventional Sciences
Degree(s): 

BSc, MD, MHPE, PhD(c) 

Graduate supervision: 

Currently supervising students

Group: 
Currently Recruiting
M.Sc. Students
M.Sc. Non-Thesis projects
Ph.D. Students
Research areas: 
Surgical Outcomes and Quality
Surgical Education and Simulation
Data Science
Precision Health
Current research: 
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  • Person-Centred Outcome 
Areas of interest: 
  • Machine learning use for clinical prediction rules - application to the diagnosis of appendicitis 
  • Image recognition applications for radiology 
  • Natural language programming for structuring imaging reports 
  • AI for improving patient management through mobile apps 
  • Multi-modal fusion for healthcare data streams 
Biography: 

Dan Poenaru, MA, MHPE, MD, PhD is a pediatric surgeon working at Montréal Children’s Hospital in Montreal, Canada. Following medical school in Toronto, he trained in general surgery at º£½ÇÉçÇø, then in pediatric surgery at the Université de Montreal. He has earned Masters degrees in Health Professions Education (University of Illinois in Chicago, IL) and International Development (William Carey International University, Pasadena, CA) and a doctorate in Health Strategy & Management (Erasmus University, Rotterdam). He has practiced academic surgery for 10 years in Kingston, Canada, then for 12 years in East Africa, and since 2015 in Montreal. His local responsibilities include divisional research director, trauma team activation lead, and director of the Jean-Martin Laberge Fellowship in Global Pediatric Surgery. Dr. Poenaru heads the CommiSur Lab, a patient-centered and patient-partnered research platform focused on the communication processes between patients, healthcare providers, and technological innovation. His current areas of academic interest are patient-centered care, the application of AI, VR, and mobile health in healthcare communication, global research capacity and equity in surgical care provision for children in low-resource settings, and global medical education. 

Selected publications: 

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