Dr. Carolyn Nessim is a Surgical Oncologist at the Ottawa Hospital and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Ottawa. She completed her general surgery residency and Masters in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Montreal and did her Surgical Oncology Fellowships at the University of Toronto and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia. Her clinical practice focuses on the treatment of patients with Melanoma, Soft Tissue Sarcoma/GIST and Gastric cancer. She is a Clinician Investigator in the Cancer Therapeutic Program (CTP) at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI). Her main research interests involve identifying biomarkers of clinical response. She also collaborates with scientists at OHRI evaluating the therapeutic use of oncolytic viruses on ex-vivo melanoma and sarcoma/GIST cells. She is a member of Cancer Care Ontario’s Melanoma Guidelines working group as well as the secretary of the Trans-Atlantic Retro-Peritoneal Sarcoma Working Group (TARPSWG) and an active member of the Ontario Cancer Research Ethics Board (OCREB). She is also currently the Program Director for the Surgical Oncology Subspecialty Fellowship training program at the University of Ottawa.