Publications and Presentations

• Unifying Children’s Surgery and Anesthesia Stakeholders Across Institutions and Clinical Disciplines: Challenges and Solutions from Uganda
• The Canadian pediatric surgery workforce: A 5-year prospective study
• Engaging youth in rural Uganda in articulating health priorities through Photovoice.
• Costs and cost-effectiveness of pediatric inguinal hernia repair in Uganda.
• Pediatric surgical camps as one model of global surgical partnership: a way forward.
• Evaluation of Interventions Addressing Timely Access to Surgical Care in Low-Income and Low-Middle-Income Countries as Outlined by the LANCET Commission 2030 Global Surgery Goals: A Systematic Review
• Training low-middle-income (LMIC) pediatric surgeons in a high-income country (HIC) program

• Do Adolescents with Gynecomastia Require Routine Evaluation by Endocrinology
• Telemedicine and Computers in the Atlantic Plastic Surgery Community. The Atlantic Society of Plastic Surgeons
• Operation Smile – The Ecuador Experience. An Update on the Canadian Chapter. The Atlantic Society of Plastic Surgeons

• Evaluation of Interventions Addressing Timely Access to Surgical Care in Low-Income and Low-Middle-Income Countries as Outlined by the LANCET Commission 2030 Global Surgery Goals: A Systematic Review
• Nutritional assessment of children in Hartley Bay (Gitga’at), BC
• Unifying Children’s Surgery and Anesthesia Stakeholders Across Institutions and Clinical Disciplines: Challenges and Solutions from Uganda
• Engaging youth in rural Uganda in articulating health priorities through Photovoice
• Access to pediatric surgery delivered by general surgeons and anesthesia providers in Uganda: Results from 2 rural regional hospitals
• Audiovisual hyperactivity disorder (AVHD): A peril of the desire to excel
• Pediatric surgical camps as one model of global surgical partnership: A Way Forward
• Lights, camera, surgery: a novel pilot project to engage medical students in the development of pediatric surgical learning resources
• Making the Most of Medical Orientation – A New Approach
• Measurement of how well a paediatric training programme prepares graduates for their chosen career paths
• Lack of Supervision and Independent Clinical Decision Making in Postgraduate Pediatric training in Australia
• Training low-middle-income (LMIC) pediatric surgeons in a high-income country (HIC) program

• Needs assessment of neurosurgery trainees: a survey study of two large training programs in the developing and developed worlds.
• International education: a third alternative.

• A model for global surgical training and capacity development: the Children’s of Alabama–Viet Nam pediatric neurosurgery partnership
• The initial experience of InterSurgeon: an online platform to facilitate global neurosurgical partnerships
• Simulation and Active Learning Decreases Training Time of an Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment Course in Pilot Study in Malawi: Implications for Increasing Efficiency and Workforce Capacity in Low-Resource Settings
• The “Empty Chairs” Approach to Learning: Simulation-Based Train the Trainer Program in Mzuzu, Malawi
• Board 166 – Program Innovations Abstract: A Utilization Focused Evaluation of Simulation within the Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) Program in Malawi (Submission #969)

• Salehi M, Zivkovic I, Mayronne S, Letoquart J-P, Joharifard S, Joos E. The Evaluation of a Surgical Task-Sharing Program in South Sudan. Surgeries. 2023; 4(2):175-187. https://doi.org/10.3390/surgeries4020019
• Livergant, R.J., Fraulin, G., Stefanyk, K. et al. Postoperative morbidity and mortality in pediatric indigenous populations: a scoping review and meta-analysis. Pediatr Surg Int 39, 129 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00383-023-05377-2
• Oluwatomilayo O. Daodu, Shahrzad Joharifard, Dickens Saint-Vil, Pramod S. Puligandla, Mary E. Brindle, Melanie I. Morris, How can pediatric surgeons address racism and become actively anti-racist?, Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Volume 58, Issue 5, 2023, Pages 939-942, ISSN 0022-3468, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2023.01.031.
• Joseph Margolick, Lu Yin, Shahrzad Joharifard, Avi Afya, Maria de los Angeles Mendoza Velez, Edgar Meza, Salim Sohani, Charlotte Laane, Elenor Ball-Banting, Emilie Joos Acute care surgery, trauma and disaster relief: a clinical exchange between the University of British Columbia and the Mexican Red CrossCan J Surg Aug 2020, 63 (4) E338-E345; DOI: 10.1503/cjs.004719
• Joharifard, S., Price, N., Ipanaqué, J.G.Y. et al. The Impact of Implementing a Comprehensive Surgical Program on the Surgical Cohort at a Remote Referral Hospital in Southeastern Liberia. World J Surg 44, 680–688 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-019-05277-4
• Petroze, R.T., Joharifard, S., Groen, R.S. et al. Injury, Disability and Access to Care in Rwanda: Results of a Nationwide Cross-Sectional Population Study. World J Surg 39, 62–69 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-014-2544-9
• Groen, R.S., Samai, M., Petroze, R.T. et al. Household Survey in Sierra Leone Reveals High Prevalence of Surgical Conditions in Children. World J Surg 37, 1220–1226 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-013-1996-7
• Homaifar N, Mwesigye D, Tchwenko S, Worjoloh A, Joharifard S, Kyamanywa P, Wilkinson J, Rulisa S, Thielman NM. Emergency obstetrics knowledge and practical skills retention among medical students in Rwanda following a short training course. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2013 Feb;120(2):195-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2012.07.031. Epub 2012 Dec 20. PMID: 23260993.
• Robin T. Petroze, Reinou S. Groen, Francine Niyonkuru, Melissa Mallory, Edmond Ntaganda, Shahrzad Joharifard, Thomas M. Guterbock, Adam L. Kushner, Patrick Kyamanywa, J. Forrest Calland,Estimating operative disease prevalence in a low-income country: Results of a nationwide population survey in Rwanda, Surgery,Volume 153, Issue 4,2013,Pages 457-464,ISSN 0039-6060,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2012.10.001.
• Joharifard, S., Rulisa, S., Niyonkuru, F. et al. Prevalence and predictors of giving birth in health facilities in Bugesera District, Rwanda. BMC Public Health 12, 1049 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-1049
• Puri R. Knowledge, attitudes, and practices in safe motherhood care among obstetric providers in bugesera, rwanda. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. 02/2012;116(2):124-127. doi: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2011.09.025.

• High rate of reoperation and conversion to total hip arthroplasty after internal fixation of young femoral neck fractures: a population-based study of 796 patients
• The Socioeconomic Implications of Isolated Tibial and Femoral Fractures from Road Traffic Injuries in Uganda
• When Surgical Resources are Severely Constrained, Who Receives Care? Determinants of Access to Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery in Uganda.
• Economic loss due to traumatic injury in Uganda: The patient’s perspective.
• Making Safe Surgery Affordable: Design of a Surgical Drill Cover System for Scale.
• Developing Orthopaedic Trauma Capacity in Uganda: Considerations from the Uganda Sustainable Trauma Orthopaedic Program.

• Education Needs of Internally Displaced Children in Afghanistan: A Needs Assessment Survey
• Virtual Reality Simulation Technology for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training: An Innovative Hybrid System With Haptic Feedback
• Status of simulation in health care education: an international survey.
• First Aid and Emergency War Surgery. Hanover University, Hanover, W. Germany, 1983.
• CBC Morning Show, September 26, 2003 “Canada’s Role in Afghanistan”
• Rebuilding After Wars – Afghanistan, Keynote Speaker, Internal Medicine Residents’ Whistler Conference
• Afghanistan – Past, Present and Future. Keynote Speaker. Rotary Club Annual District and BC Surgical Society Meetings.

• Long-Term Results of PET-Guided Radiation Therapy in Patients with Advanced-Stage Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Treated with R-CHOP in British Columbia
• The Canadian Medical Student Ultrasound Curriculum
• Acute Inflammatory Response During Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Locally Advanced Breast Cancer: A Case Report
• Surgical resection and long-term disease-free survival in Stage IIIB non-small cell lung cancer after gefitinib down-staging: a case report
• Successful treatment of hepatic oligometastases with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy and radiofrequency ablation in an anaplastic lymphoma kinase fusion-positive lung cancer patient
• Does PET/CT improve patient management after curative-intent radiotherapy (RT) for head & neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)
• Withholding metformin prior to ¹⁸F-FDG positron emission tomography (PET) oncology studies

• North-South surgical training partnerships: a systematic review
• Ovarian masses in the child and adolescent: An American Pediatric Surgical Association Outcomes and Evidence-Based Practice Committee systematic review
• A systematic review of capacity assessment tools in pediatric surgery: Global Assessment in Pediatric Surgery (GAPS) Phase I
• Comparison of the Pediatric Resuscitation and Trauma Outcome (PRESTO) Model and Pediatric Trauma Scoring Systems in a Middle-Income Country
• Unifying Children’s Surgery and Anesthesia Stakeholders Across Institutions and Clinical Disciplines: Challenges and Solutions from Uganda
• Regarding global pediatric surgery training opportunities
• The thyroid nodules in kids study (ThyNK study): An evaluation of clinical practice variation
• Partnership in fellowship: Comparative analysis of pediatric surgical training and evaluation of a fellow exchange between Canada and Kenya.
• Training low-middle-income (LMIC) pediatric surgeons in a high-income country (HIC) program

• Creating a gold medal Olympic and Paralympics health care team: a satisfaction survey of the mobile medical unit/polyclinic team training for the Vancouver 2010 winter games.
• A predeployment trauma team training course creates confidence in teamwork and clinical skills: a post-Afghanistan deployment validation study of Canadian Forces healthcare personnel.
• Access to trauma systems in Canada.

• The Cedar Project: exploring the role of colonial harms and childhood maltreatment on HIV and hepatitis C infection in a cohort study involving young Indigenous people who use drugs in two Canadian cities
• Postoperative outcomes for Indigenous Peoples in Canada: a systematic review
• An evidence-based program for rural surgical and obstetrical networks

• Promoting quality of care in disaster response: A survey of core surgical competencies.
• Mobile field hospitals in the Haiti earthquake response: a Red Cross model.
• Preparing humanitarian workers for disaster response: a Red Cross/Red Crescent field training model.

• Surgical Task-Sharing to Non-specialist Physicians in Low-Resource Settings Globally: A Systematic Review of the Literature
• Surgical Task-Sharing in the Western Canadian Arctic: A Networked Model Between Family Physicians with Enhanced Surgical Skills and Specialist Surgeons
• Surgery in the western Canadian Arctic: The relative impact of family physicians with enhanced surgical skills working collaboratively with specialist surgeons.

• A systematic review of global surgery partnerships and a proposed framework for sustainability
• Time to operating room matters in modern management of pancreatic injuries: A national review on the management of adult pancreatic injury at Canadian level 1 trauma centers
• Virtual learning in global surgery: current strategies and adaptation for the COVID-19 pandemic

• Surveying unmet pediatric urological needs in low- and middle-income countries
• Training low-middle-income (LMIC) pediatric surgeons in a high-income country (HIC) program

• Socio-economic Structures and Sexual Health of Marginalized Youth: Policy Implications in Kenya. In Africa Rising: A Continent Throughthe Eyes of Emerging Scholars. Pp. 197-222.
• Youths navigating social networks and social support systems in settings of chronic crisis: the case of youth-headed households in Rwanda
• Reducing HIV Infection Rates Among Young Kenyan Women
• Strategies to Support Youth-headed Households in Kenya and Rwanda
• The Impact of HIV on the Sexual Health of Kenya’s Young Generation
• Resiliency of children in child-headed households in Rwanda: implications for community-based psychosocial interventions
• Surgical Task-Sharing in the Western Canadian Arctic: A Networked Model Between Family Physicians with Enhanced Surgical Skills and Specialist Surgeons

• Clubfoot Etiology, Pathoanatomy, Basic Ponseti Technique, and Ponseti in Older Patients
• Systematic review and meta-Analysis of global birth prevalence of clubfoot: A study protocol
• Magnetic resonance imaging study of the congenital clubfoot treated with the Ponseti method.
• Understanding the Barriers to Clubfoot Treatment Adherence in Uganda: A Rapid Ethnographic Study
• Towards Effective Ponseti Clubfoot Care: The Uganda Sustainable Clubfoot Care Project
• Incidence of Clubfoot in Uganda

• Epidemiology and treatment outcomes in pediatric patients with post-injection paralysis
• Paediatric musculoskeletal disease in Kumi District, Uganda: a cross-sectional survey
• Burden of gluteal fibrosis and post-injection paralysis in the children of Kumi District in Uganda
• A collaborative public health approach to clubfoot intervention in 10 low-income and middle-income countries: 2-year outcomes and lessons learnt
• Towards Effective Ponseti Clubfoot Care: The Uganda Sustainable Clubfoot Care Project
• Community-based rehabilitation and orthopaedic surgery for children with motor impairment in an African context.
• Sequelae of Septic arthritis of the Hip.
• The Neglected Clubfoot
• Chronic Osteomyelitis in Children. Techniques in Orthopaedics.
• Results of triple arthrodesis in Uganda
• Clubfoot: Ponseti Management.

Text Book chapters in Global Orthopedics. Ed. Gosselin, Spiegel & Folz. Springer 2014.

• Chapter 12. Penny: Rickets and Angulatory Bone Deformity.
• Chapter 31. Penny & Spiegel: Chronic Osteomyelitis in Children.
• Chapter 35. Penny: Algorithm for Neglected Clubfoot.
• Chapter 39. Penny, Ekure, Spiegel & Watts: Injection injuries and polio

• Mortality from gastrointestinal congenital anomalies at 264 hospitals in 74 low-income, middle-income, and high-income countries: a multicentre, international, prospective cohort study
• Potentially Avertable Child Mortality Associated with Surgical Workforce Scale-up in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Global Study
• Assessing trauma care systems in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and evidence synthesis mapping the Three Delays framework to injury health system assessments
• The burden of waiting: wait times for pediatric surgical procedures in Quebec and compliance with national benchmarks
• Cost-Effectiveness in Global Surgery: Pearls, Pitfalls, and a Checklist.
• Pediatric surgical capacity in Africa: Current status and future needs.
• Pediatric Hand Surgery in Global Health: The Role for International Outreach.
• Partnership in fellowship: Comparative analysis of pediatric surgical training and evaluation of a fellow exchange between Canada and Kenya.
• Economic Analysis of Children’s Surgical Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Analysis
• Gastroschisis: Bellwether for neonatal surgery capacity in low resource settings?
• Economic Valuation of the Global Burden of Cleft Disease Averted by a Large Cleft Charity
• The burden of pediatric surgical disease in low-resource settings: Discovering it, measuring it, and addressing it.
• An investment in knowledge: Research in global pediatric surgery for the 21st century.
• Pediatric surgery as an essential component of global child health.
• Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.
• Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition.
• The burden of waiting: DALYs accrued from delayed access to pediatric surgery in Kenya and Canada.
• Mortality of pediatric surgical conditions in low and middle income countries in Africa.
• The Global Paediatric Surgery Network: a model of subspecialty collaboration within global surgery.
• Optimal resources for children’s surgical care: a global perspective.
• Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.
• Burden, need, or backlog: a call for improved metrics for the global burden of surgical disease.
• Burden of surgically correctable disabilities among children in the Dadaab Refugee Camp.
• Getting the job done: analysis of the impact and effectiveness of the SmileTrain program in alleviating the global burden of cleft disease.
• Burden of surgical congenital anomalies in Kenya: a population-based study.
• The burden of pediatric surgical conditions in low and middle income countries: a call to action.
• Pediatric surgical site infection in the developing world: a Kenyan experience.
• Evaluation of fundamental critical care course in Kenya: knowledge, attitude, and practice.
• Quality of life of children with spina bifida in Kenya is not related to the degree of the spinal defects.
• Timing of ventriculoperitoneal shunt insertion following spina bifida closure in Kenya.
• Outcomes of ventriculoperitoneal shunt insertion in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Pediatric cancer spectrum in Kenya: a histopathologic review.
• Caring for children with colorectal disease in the context of limited resources.
• Quality of life of African children with spina bifida: results of a validated instrument
• Quality of life for families with spina bifida in Kenya.

• Lessons from developing, implementing and sustaining a participatory partnership for children’s surgical care in Tanzania
• Feasibility of Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy and Rapid On-Site Evaluation for Immediate Triage in Breast Cancer Screening in Tanzania
• A Journey Undertaken by Families to Access General Surgical Care for their Children at Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania; Prospective Observational Cohort Study
• A randomised control trial using soap in the prevention of surgical site infection in Tanzania

• Global Surgery 2030: a roadmap for high income country actors
• Assessing personal contributions in global surgery: By whose yardstick?
• Surgical Care and Health Systems
• Global health conferences: Are they truly “global”? The Bethune Round Table paradigm for promoting global surgery
• International surgery: the development of postgraduate surgical training in Guyana
• A hospital-based analysis of the Road Traffic Injury pattern in Northern Sri Lanka. Masters Dissertation. Curtin University, Perth Australia. June 2006.
• Review of a Canadian forum on international surgery: the Bethune Round Table
• Indications for surgery in our global village

• Cost-effectiveness of School Hearing Screening Programs: A Scoping Review
• Guidance for otolaryngology health care workers performing aerosol generating medical procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Otolaryngology-Related Disorders in Underserved Populations, Otolaryngology Training and Workforce Considerations in North America.
• Development and validation of a low-cost microsurgery Ear Trainer for low-resource settings.
• Fatal Bacterial Meningitis Possibly Associated with Substandard Ceftriaxone—Uganda, 2013.
• Increased frequency of visits improves the efficiency of surgical global health initiatives.
• CanHEAR Uganda Sets Sights on Sustainability
• Cross-sectional survey of hearing impairment and ear disease in Uganda.
• Prevalence of hearing loss in primary school children in Zimbabwe