Dr. Janice L. Pasieka Clinical Professor of Surgery and Oncology

Dr. Pasieka graduated from the University of Western Ontario Medical School and did her General Surgery Residency Training at the University of Calgary.  Following her residency she did three years of Endocrine Surgical Training.  Upon completing a year of basic science research within the Division of Endocrinology she went to the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.  Under the mentorship of Dr. Norman Thompson she completed a year of endocrine surgical training.  From there she went on to study Endocrine Surgery at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden under the mentorship of Dr. Bertil Hamberger.  She then returned to the University of Calgary at the Foothills Medical Center in 1991.  Since that time she has devoted her clinical practice solely to the realm of endocrine surgical diseases.  Her involvement at the Tom Baker Cancer Center has been in setting up a multidisciplinary clinic for neuroendocrine tumors as well as a multidisciplinary hereditary endocrine clinic.  She is currently the Secretary Treasurer of the AAES (American Association of Endocrine Surgeons) and she sits on the Council of the IAES (International Association of Endocrine Surgeons).  Her areas of interests evolve around neuroendocrine tumors, adrenal disease and the study of surgical outcomes in patients with hyperparathyroidism.  Dr. Pasieka is currently the Regional Division Chief in General Surgery for the Calgary Regional Health Authority and the Head of the Division of General Surgery at the University of Calgary.

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