Course Faculty

Rodrigo Romao, MD, MSc is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Urology and the Program Director for the Pediatric General Surgery fellowship program at the IWK Health Centre, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He received training in General Surgery, Pediatric General Surgery and Pediatric Urology at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and Sick Kids in Toronto. Dr. Romao is the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Surgical PI for the IWK Health Centre and is also a member of the COG Renal Tumors Committee. Dr. Romao has a strong interest in pediatric surgical oncology, both clinically and from a research perspective. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Pediatric Uro-Oncology Working Group (PUOWG).

Margarett Shnorhavorian, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACS is a Full Professor in the Department of Urology at the University of Washington in the Division of Pediatric Urology and Affiliate Investigator in the Epidemiology Program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Her research program has focused on adolescent and young adult survivorship and her clinical niche is in pediatric urologic reconstruction. Dr. Shnorhavorian is the Principal Investigator for a five-year NIH R01 level grant leading a multi-disciplinary team and has a record of accomplishment of successful collaborations on extramurally funded grants. Within COG she serves on the Steering Committee for the Survivorship and Outcomes Committee.

Jonathan Routh, MD, MPH is the Paul H. Sherman Associate Professor of Surgery (Urology), Pediatrics, and Population Health at Duke University School of Medicine, where he serves as the Chief of the Center for Children’s Surgery.  He has been a member of the Society for Pediatric Urology Oncology Working Group’s Executive Committee since 2011, and was recently elected as the PUOWG President.  He is an active member of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), serving on the Soft Tissue Sarcoma committee, Surgery committee, ARST1431 Intermediate Risk Rhabdomyosarcoma study committee, and the Urinary Tract and Endocrine Task Forces of the COG Long-Term Follow-up committee.  Internationally, he is a past member of the Nephrotoxicity Core of the International Guidelines Harmonization Group (IGHG) and currently serves on the Paratesticular and Bladder/Prostate Working Groups of the International Soft Tissue Sarcoma Consortium (INSTrUCT). 

Planning Committee

Nicholas Cost, MD

Ray Cuellar

Kathleen Kieran, MD

Jonathan Ross, MD

Amanda Saltzman, MD

Duncan Wilcox, MD

Disclosures

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