Roles
Assistant Professor of Surgery
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Biography
Dr. Shafarenko earned his medical degree from the University of Toronto in 2019. He also completed his plastic surgery residency at the University of Toronto, where he was recognized with multiple awards for clinical research involving augmented reality simulation. He is board-certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is currently completing his microsurgery fellowship at MD Anderson, encompassing all aspects of oncologic reconstruction. -
Education & Training
Education
Post Graduate Training
Licensures and Certifications
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Teaching Interests
Dr. Shafarenko believes that there are numerous opportunities for medical student, resident, and fellow education. He incorporates some element of teaching wherever possible, including clinic, preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively. Dr. Shafarenko enjoys conducting teaching conferences at least once every 2 weeks.
In all teaching settings, he strives to make the material engaging and interesting. From an operative perspective, Dr. Shafarenko believes in a system of graded responsibility for the learner and allowing them to perform progressively more difficult parts of an operation over time. -
Research Interests
Dr. Shafarenko's interests include surgical simulation, targeted muscle reinnervation, and outcomes of sarcoma and lymphatic reconstruction. During residency, he was involved in the creation of an augmented reality simulator of K-wire fixation of hand fractures. He is interested in pursuing further research centered on surgical simulation and its utility as a teaching tool.
Clinically, Dr. Shafarenko is interested in pursuing outcomes research focusing on TMR, lymphatic reconstruction, and sarcoma reconstruction. -
Publications
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