Dr. Maria Tiboni, MD, FRCPC
Medical Director of the Bariatric Program
St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton

Dr. Tiboni holds an academic appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, at McMaster University and she is also a staff physician at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (SJH) since 2006. She was appointed the Medical Director of the Bariatric Program at SJH in 2009 and she also chairs the Ontario Bariatric Network Medical Task Force.

As a member of the Clinical Teaching Unit at SJH, she is actively involved in the undergraduate and postgraduate medical programs. Her interests include perioperative medicine, in particular, the care of patients undergoing bariatric surgery.

Dr. Tiboni created and was the co-Chair of the Canadian Perioperative Anesthesia and Medicine Meeting (CPAM), a truly interdisciplinary meeting in perioperative care, now in its 5th year. She actively participates in perioperative research and she has a leading role at SJH in the VISION Study (Vascular Events on Noncardiac Surgery Patients Cohort Evaluation Study) and POISE- 2 study (PeriOperative ISquemia Evaluation-2 Study).