Program Co-chairs

Dr. Amir Khoshbin
MD MSc FRCSC
Chief - Division of Orthopaedic Surgery - St. Michael’s Hospital
Agnico Eagle Professorship in Joint Arthroplasty
Assistant Professor – University of Toronto
Dr. Amir Khoshbin specializes in adult reconstructive surgery of the hip and knee, including minimally invasive Direct Anterior Hip Arthroplasty (DAA), primary & revision joint replacements, and complex lower extremity trauma.
He attended the University of Toronto for his undergraduate and medical education. Dr. Khoshbin completed his residency at the University of Toronto, where he was part of the Surgeon Scientist Program and received his Master of Science in clinical epidemiology.
After residency, Dr. Khoshbin completed an Orthopedic Trauma Association (OTA) fellowship in Trauma at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston. Thereafter, he completed a second fellowship in Adult Reconstruction and Joint Replacement at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.

Dr. Jesse Wolfstadt
MD MSc FRCSC FAAOS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Knee and Hip Arthroplasty
Division of Orthopaedics
Sinai Health, University of Toronto
Dr. Jesse Wolfstadt received his MD from the University of Toronto in 2011, completed a residency in orthopaedic surgery at U of T in 2016, and graduated in 2017 with a Master’s Degree in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation (IHPME). He completed fellowships in complex adult lower extremity reconstruction (Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada), traumatology and arthroplasty (St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada), and traumatology (Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand). His clinical focus is on complex primary and revision total knee replacement and primary total hip replacement, as well as trauma surgery and outpatient total joint replacement.

Dr. Michael Zywiel
MD MSc FAAOS FRCSC
After finishing his medical education at the Jagiellonian University Medical College in Krakow, Poland, Michael completed a clinical research fellowship in Baltimore, Maryland under the mentorship of Michael A. Mont. He then returned to his hometown of Toronto and joined the UofT orthopaedic residency program. While a resident, he participated in the Surgeon Scientist Program and completed his Masters of Science degree in Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.
After finishing his residency in 2016, Michael went south to Austin, Texas, where he was the inaugural Joseph Miles Abell Jr. Fellow in Arthroplasty and Value-Based Health Care Delivery at the Dell Medical School. He then returned to Toronto and recently completed a six-month fellowship in Lower Extremity Reconstruction and Trauma at St Michael’s Hospital.
Dr. Zywiel is currently an Assistant Professor and Surgeon Investigator at the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery at Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, with clinical interest in hip and knee pain, surgical interest in hip and knee replacement, and academic interests in health services, outcomes, and health care economics research.
Event Dates
November 28 & 29, 2024
Times in the program are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
Event Location
The Temerty Advanced Surgical Education and Simulation Centre located in the Michener Institute of Education at UHN Toronto, ON Canada
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