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June 9, 2026

Aylin Erman’s abstract entitled “Machine-learning-assisted Preoperative Prediction of Pediatric Appendicitis Severity,” has been selected as the Second-Place Winner of the MUHC’s Hugh Hallward Award for Publication Communication. Beardmore-CommiSur Lab co-authors include Dan Poenaru, Sherif Emil and Elena Guadagno.

January 20, 2026

Dr. Sacha Williams, Jean Martin Laberge Global Pediatric Surgery Fellow and PhD candidate with the Beardmore-CommiSur Lab, has been awarded the Surgeon Scientist Program (SSP) Travel Award in recognition of her academic presentation.

March 30, 2026

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research has awarded Drs. Dan Poenaru and Martin Vallières a CHIR Research Project Grant of $135,000 for the project entitled “Synergistic Modeling of Heterogeneous Data for Precision.”.