Assistant professor
Max Rady College of Medicine
Surgery
Room GF440A - 820 Sherbrook St.
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3A 1R9
Phone: 204-787-8681
Fax: 204-787-8071
phebbard@cancercare.mb.ca
Pamela Hebbard, MD, FRCSC
Research summary
Dr. Pamela Hebbard is interested in improving surgical quality in cancer care. She works with a collaborative group within CancerCare Manitoba to measure surgical quality and feedback to surgeons. She also does some small studies in surgical outcomes, mainly in breast cancer, and supports some larger groups who are interested in supportive care in cancer surgery patients.
Research themes
- Surgical quality indicators, and surgical quality improvement
- Surgical outcomes in cancer patients, mainly in breast cancer
- Supportive care in surgical patients
Research groups
- RUBY Study (Reducing the burden of breast cancer in young women)
- CancerCare Manitoba Research Institute, Health Services Research Group (Decker lab)
- Department of Clinical Health Psychology, Health, Anxiety and Trauma lab (HATLab)
Biography
Dr. Hebbard is an assistant professor of surgery at UM. She is also a general surgical oncologist with CancerCare Manitoba and Shared Health/Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.
She was born in Goose Bay, Labrador and grew up there and in St. John’s Newfoundland.
Her bachelor’s degree, medical degree and general surgery residency were obtained through Memorial University of Newfoundland, as was a graduate diploma in clinical epidemiology.
She then moved to the University of Calgary for a fellowship in general surgical oncology.
Dr. Hebbard has been practicing in Winnipeg since 2012.
Her clinical focus is on complex gastrointestinal malignancy, breast cancer and melanoma. She has research and administrative interests in optimizing surgical quality in cancer delivery.
Education
- Fellowship (general surgical oncology fellowship), University of Calgary (2012)
- Graduate Diploma in (clinical epidemiology research), Memorial University of Newfoundland (2011)
- Residency (general surgery), Memorial University of Newfoundland (2010)
- Doctor of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland (2004)
- Bachelor of Science (honours, behavioural neuroscience), Memorial University of Newfoundland (2000)
Contact us
Surgery
Max Rady College of Medicine
AE101-820 Sherbrook Street
University of Manitoba (Bannatyne campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3A 1R9 Canada
204-787-4587
204-787-1485
204-787-4884