CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Friday, June 14th, 2013 - 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
BARIATRIC MEDICINE (ACCEPTED PAPERS)
Chair: Dr. Maria Tiboni
Territories Room


Dr. Maria Tiboni, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Maria Tiboni graduated with honors from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1990 and completed training in Internal Medicine.  She moved to Canada in 1999 and retrained in Internal Medicine at McMaster University receiving her FRCPC in Internal Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2006.  Dr. Tiboni holds an academic appointment at the rank of Associate 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 Surgical Program at SJH in 2009, she is a member of the Ontario Bariatric Network Advisory Board and chairs the Ontario Bariatric Network Medical Task Force.

Her interests include perioperative and consultative medicine, medical student and resident education.  Dr. Tiboni’s research interest is perioperative medicine with focus on non-cardiac surgery and bariatric surgery.
She is the local Co-PI at Saint Joseph’s Healthcare of the Vision Study (Vascular Events In Non Cardiac Surgery PatIents COhort evaluatioN), the POISE 2 study (PeriOperative Isquemic Evaluation- 2 Trial and the HIP- Attack Trial (Hip Fracture Accelerated Surgical Treatment and Care Track Trial)