Dr. Ahmad Ashrafi's Credentials

Accepting New Patients

Yes, this doctor is accepting new patients

Biography

Thoracic Surgeon and Intensivist at Surrey Memorial Hospital, Fraser Health Authority.

Languages

• German
• English
• Hindi
• Dari

Education

• University of Ottawa (Grad. 1997)

Other Specialties

• General Surgeon
• Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Areas of Expertise

• Hiatal hernia
• Esophageal cancer
• Lung cancer
• Upper endoscopy

Awards & Recognitions

• Honours in Medicine Rotation 1995
• Winner of the poster presentation at Ontario Thoracic Conference, NOTL 2008
• Dean’s Honour List 1992
• Canadian Association of General Surgeons Resident Award for 2002 Teaching Excellence 2002
• Merck Frost Resident Award for Teaching Excellence 2001

Publications & Research

• VATS Resection of Pulmonary Sequestration
• Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Resection of a Large Esophageal Diverticulum With Esophageal Myotomy.
• A novel approach to reduce large bore chest tube days and hospital length of stay post-VATS lobectomy: a prospective comparative study.
• VATS Resection of Pulmonary Sequestration.
• Video description of our technique for VATS sleeve lobectomy resection of LLL endobronchial lesion
• Ruptured gastroepiploic artery aneurysm: a case report.
• Perioperative mortality and Morbidity after Lobar versus Sublobar Resection for early stage lung cancer: Results from an international randomized phase III trial (CALGB/Alliance 140503)
• MIS Management of Boerhaave’s, a case report and review of the literature.
• Laparoscopic Total Gastrectomy and Omentectomy with Roux-en-Y Reconstruction
• Perioperative mortality and morbidity after sublobar versus lobar resection for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer: post-hoc analysis of an international, randomized, phase 3 trial (CALGB/Alliance 140503)
• Pan-Canadian Standards for Thoracic Surgery
• Neoadjuvant chemoradiation versus surgery in managing esophageal cancer.
• Boerhaave’s syndrome secondary to an incarcerated inguinal hernia: A case report.
• Video demonstration of the MIE App showing all features of this multi-platform application for teaching MIE
• Proposal for Randomized Validation of Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy App
• Is VATS superior to LAT in the Management of spontaneous Pneumothorax?
• Risk of Pneumonectomy following induction chemotherapy for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer
• Minimally invasive transhiatal esophagectomy: a novel approach for treatment of mid and proximal esophageal carcinoma.
• Video-assisted thoracoscopic sleeve lobectomy for endobronchial neoplasm: a video case series
• Successful Implementation of VATS lobectomy in BC: a preliminary experience.
• Dysphagia. 4. Thorax ACS Surgery
• Novel Educational App For Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy
• A retrospective analysis of division versus non-division of short gastric vessels in laparoscopic giant paraesophageal hernia repair.
• Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic pulmonary resection: first series in Western Canada
• Video describing our technique for VATS sleeve lobectomy for RUL lesion with bronchial involvement
• Minimally Invasive Ivor-Lewis Esophagectomy.
• Video description of our technique for VATS sleeve lobectomy of LUL lesion with bronchial involvement
• The Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy (MIE) App: a novel teaching tool for minimally invasive esophagectomy