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Karen Devon

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Assistant ProfessorClinical Public Health DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Karen Devon

Assistant Professor

Clinical Public Health Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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6 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Latest papers

A Scoping Review on Goals of Care Discussions in Surgery: How Are We Doing and How Can We Do Better?
World journal of surgery · 2025 · senior author
Successful Deceased Donor Parathyroid Allotransplantation: A Novel Approach in a Patient with Severe Refractory Hypoparathyroidism After Thyroidectomy for Thyroid Cancer.
Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association · 2024 · first author
The Deceased, Public Health, and Research: Proposing Legal Reforms.
Biopreservation and biobanking · 2024 · senior author

All 18 publications

18 publications.

A Scoping Review on Goals of Care Discussions in Surgery: How Are We Doing and How Can We Do Better?

Mac A, Lee Y, Zhang S, Nurunnabi ASM, Englesakis M, Devon K

World journal of surgery2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/wjs.70070 PMID: 40848231

Successful Deceased Donor Parathyroid Allotransplantation: A Novel Approach in a Patient with Severe Refractory Hypoparathyroidism After Thyroidectomy for Thyroid Cancer.

Devon K, Tinckam K, Humar A, Madani A, Pasternak JD, Saravana-Bawan B, Zahedi A

Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association2024First author

DOI: 10.1089/thy.2024.0115 PMID: 38919120

The Deceased, Public Health, and Research: Proposing Legal Reforms.

Baltzan I, Knoppers BM, Nemetz ETA, Lerner-Ellis J, Bernier A, Devon K

Biopreservation and biobanking2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1089/bio.2023.0026 PMID: 37943606

Gender Differences in Fears Related to Low-Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer and Its Treatment

Sawka AM, Ghai S, Rotstein L, Irish JC, Pasternak JD, Gullane PJ, Monteiro E, Zahedi A, Gooden E, Eskander A

JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery202321 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1001/jamaoto.2023.1642 PMID: W4383302926

Ambulatory Parathyroidectomy for Secondary Hyperparathyroidism at a Large Dialysis Program in Toronto: A Program Report.

Saravana-Bawan B, Auguste BL, Zahirieh A, Devon K

Canadian journal of kidney health and disease2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/20543581221127937 PMID: 36325262

Quality Indicators for the Diagnosis and Management of Primary Hyperparathyroidism.

Noltes ME, Cottrell J, Madani A, Rotstein L, Gomez-Hernandez K, Devon K, Boggild MK, Goldstein DP, Wong EM, Brouwers AH, Kruijff S, Eskander A, Monteiro E, Pasternak JD

JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery2022

DOI: 10.1001/jamaoto.2021.3858 PMID: 34989783

A Population-Based Analysis of Outpatient Thyroidectomy: Safe and Under-Utilized.

Noel CW, Griffiths R, Siu J, Forner D, Urbach D, Freeman J, Goldstein DP, Irish JC, Higgins KM, Devon K, Pasternak JD, Eskander A

The Laryngoscope2021

DOI: 10.1002/lary.29816 PMID: 34378810

A Crucial Moment for Reflection on the Importance of Ethical Leadership in Academic Medicine.

Angelos P, Devon K, Ferreres AR, McLeod R, Ellison EC

Annals of surgery2021

DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000004600 PMID: 33196491

Surgical Ethics: How I Teach It.

Devon K, Sade RM

The Annals of thoracic surgery2020First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.07.010 PMID: 32941859

Reconceptualizing Ethics Through Morbidity and Mortality Rounds.

Snelgrove R, Ng SL, Devon K

Journal of the American College of Surgeons2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2020.04.038 PMID: 32479898

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Karen Devon

Latest papers

A Scoping Review on Goals of Care Discussions in Surgery: How Are We Doing and How Can We Do Better?

Successful Deceased Donor Parathyroid Allotransplantation: A Novel Approach in a Patient with Severe Refractory Hypoparathyroidism After Thyroidectomy for Thyroid Cancer.

The Deceased, Public Health, and Research: Proposing Legal Reforms.

Gender Differences in Fears Related to Low-Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer and Its Treatment

Ambulatory Parathyroidectomy for Secondary Hyperparathyroidism at a Large Dialysis Program in Toronto: A Program Report.

Quality Indicators for the Diagnosis and Management of Primary Hyperparathyroidism.

A Population-Based Analysis of Outpatient Thyroidectomy: Safe and Under-Utilized.

A Crucial Moment for Reflection on the Importance of Ethical Leadership in Academic Medicine.

Surgical Ethics: How I Teach It.

Reconceptualizing Ethics Through Morbidity and Mortality Rounds.

Frequent collaborators

Antoine Eskander

Martin McKneally

Ahmed Kayssi

Jordan Lerner-Ellis

David Urbach

Robin Mcleod

Wei Xu

Atul Humar

Amiram Jacob Gafni

Stella Ng

Shereen Ezzat