Muriel Brackstone, MD, PhD, FRCSC

Co-President, Canadian Society of Breast Surgeons
Chair/Chief, Division of General Surgery
General Surgeon & Surgical Oncologist
Professor of Surgery & Oncology, Western University
Toronto, ON

Muriel Brackstone is a Surgical Oncologist at London Health Sciences Center, Professor of Surgery and Oncology at Western University and city-wide Chair/Chief of General Surgery. She completed her residency in General Surgery at Western University in 2004, followed by a fellowship in breast surgical oncology at the University of Toronto. During her early years in practice, she completed an MSc in Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics followed by a PhD in Pathology/Clinical Trials at Western. She also completed Harvard University’s Surgical Leadership Program. She is the founding medical director of London’s Breast Care Program and created one of the first Canadian fellowships in Oncoplastic Surgery. She created the London Tumour Biobank as a repository platform for window of opportunity clinical trials in Oncology and has completed numerous clinical trials with over 150 peer reviewed publications. She is the guideline lead for Cancer Care Ontario’s breast disease site team and is lead author on a number of guideline publications including the management of locally advanced breast cancer and a joint ASCO/OH guideline on the management of the axilla. Dr Brackstone is the provincial breast lead with Cancer Care Ontario/Ontario Health.