University of Toronto
Christopher J.D. Wallis is a Urologic Oncologist at the University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital/University Health Network. He obtained his Doctor of Medicine from the University of British Columbia and his Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Epidemiology & Health Care Research from the Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He completed his clinical residency in Urology at the University of Toronto and his Society of Urologic Oncology accredited fellowship training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. To date, he has more than 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals including The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), The Lancet, The BMJ, JAMA Oncology, and many others. He is currently an Editorial Board member for two of the most prominent journals in urology, European Urology and The Journal of Urology, as well as PloSOne. His research focuses on leveraging epidemiologic techniques to understand the interaction between processes of care and patient outcomes, with a particular focus on patients with cancer and those undergoing surgery.
While his clinical practice reflects a subspecialty focus in urologic oncology, his research has had broad reaching impact. Over the past eight years, he has been studying the effect of physician characteristics, particularly sex and gender, on patient outcomes. Beyond numerous highly cited and high-impact publications, this work has spawned important conversations across society and led to interviews and articles in the Guardian, the New York Times, and numerous other lay media outlets. In this talk, Dr. Wallis will summarize the work that he and others have done to characterize the association between physician sex/gender and patient outcomes, explore potential explanations for these findings, and consider the implications of these data for the profession of medicine.
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Monday, May 1, 2023
7:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST