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Najib Safieddine

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Assistant ProfessorDepartment of SurgeryUniversity of Toronto

Najib Safieddine

Assistant Professor

Department of Surgery

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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6 publications in the last five years, latest in 2024.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.

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Publications

151

Citations

205

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Research

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Latest papers

A trans‐Canadian positive deviance seminar for paraesophageal hernia surgery: Reporting national postoperative outcomes and consensus recommendations
World Journal of Surgery · 2024
Replacing post-chest tube removal chest radiographs with clinical assessment in adult thoracic surgery patients: A single-center prospective study.
JTCVS open · 2024
Multicentre positive deviance to reduce adverse events and length of stay after pulmonary resection
BMJ quality improvement reports · 2023

All 12 publications

12 publications.

A trans‐Canadian positive deviance seminar for paraesophageal hernia surgery: Reporting national postoperative outcomes and consensus recommendations

Tankel J, Safieddine N, Malthaner R, French D, Johnston B, Finley C, Darling G, Ferri L, Seely A, Gowing S

World Journal of Surgery20242 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/wjs.12087

Replacing post-chest tube removal chest radiographs with clinical assessment in adult thoracic surgery patients: A single-center prospective study.

Matei AC, Nasralla A, Safieddine N, Gazala S, Simone C, Ahmadi N

JTCVS open2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.xjon.2024.07.015 PMID: 39534359

Multicentre positive deviance to reduce adverse events and length of stay after pulmonary resection

Seely AJE, Ahmadzai Z, French DG, Gingrich M, Jones D, Anstee C, Safieddine N, Waddell TK, Malthaner R, Ferri L

BMJ quality improvement reports20235 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjoq-2022-001997 PMID: W4317681324

Multicentre positive deviance seminar to generate best practice recommendations to reduce anastomotic leak and length of stay for patients undergoing oesophagectomy

Jones D, Gingrich M, Anstee C, Najmeh S, Safieddine N, Darling G, Malthaner R, Finley C, French DG, Ferri L

BMJ quality improvement reports20232 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjoq-2023-002458

2023 Canadian Surgery Forum

Brière R, Habashi R, Merchant S, Cadili L, Alhumoud Z, Lau R, Gawad N, Valji R, Balmes PN, Tan JGK

Canadian Journal of Surgery20231 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1503/cjs.014223 PMID: W4389488805

A Standardized Minimal Opioid Prescription Post-Thoracic Surgery Provides Adequate Pain Control.

Skelhorne-Gross G, Simone C, Gazala S, Zeldin RA, Safieddine N

The Annals of thoracic surgery2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.05.075 PMID: 34186093

Co-Learning Curriculum in Quality Improvement for Surgical Residents– Five-Year Experience from the University of Toronto

Dhruvin H. Hirpara, Brian M. Wong, Najib Safieddine

Journal of surgical education20214 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2021.08.001 PMID: 34481748

Video-assisted thoracoscopic resection of a giant esophageal schwannoma: A case report.

Khan U, Simone C, Safieddine N, Gazala S

International journal of surgery case reports2021

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2021.106202 PMID: 34388894

Prognostic factors for cure, recurrence and long-term survival after surgical resection of thymoma.

Safieddine N, Liu G, Cuningham K, Ming T, Hwang D, Brade A, Bezjak A, Fischer S, Xu W, Azad S, Cypel M, Darling G, Yasufuku K, Pierre A, de Perrot M, Waddell T, Keshavjee S

Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer2014137 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1097/jto.0000000000000215 PMID: 24926546

Anatomy of the thymus gland.

Safieddine N, Keshavjee S

Thoracic surgery clinics2011First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2010.12.011 PMID: 21477769

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Najib Safieddine

Research

Latest papers

A trans‐Canadian positive deviance seminar for paraesophageal hernia surgery: Reporting national postoperative outcomes and consensus recommendations

Replacing post-chest tube removal chest radiographs with clinical assessment in adult thoracic surgery patients: A single-center prospective study.

Multicentre positive deviance to reduce adverse events and length of stay after pulmonary resection

Multicentre positive deviance seminar to generate best practice recommendations to reduce anastomotic leak and length of stay for patients undergoing oesophagectomy

2023 Canadian Surgery Forum

A Standardized Minimal Opioid Prescription Post-Thoracic Surgery Provides Adequate Pain Control.

Co-Learning Curriculum in Quality Improvement for Surgical Residents– Five-Year Experience from the University of Toronto

Video-assisted thoracoscopic resection of a giant esophageal schwannoma: A case report.

Prognostic factors for cure, recurrence and long-term survival after surgical resection of thymoma.

Anatomy of the thymus gland.

Frequent collaborators

Sayf Gazala

Carmine Simone

Andrew Seely

Lorenzo Ferri

Richard Malthaner

Christian John Finley

Negar Ahmadi

Shiva Jayaraman

Trevor Reichman

Amanda Roberts

Fayez Quereshy

Nadia Khan

Michael Ko

Andrew Pierre

Jesse Pasternak

Allan Okrainec

Helen MacRae

Carol-Anne Moulton

David Goldstein

Kartik Jhaveri

Ur Metser

Jonathan Wasserman

Rajni Patel

Wael Hanna

Diane Heels-Ansdell

Sameer Parpia

Joanna Dionne

Andrea Eisen

Cagla Eskicioglu

Bradley Allan Petrisor

Timothy Whelan

Edward Passos

John Agzarian

Rahima Nenshi

Paul Engels

Ilun Yang