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Dr. Hayley Forbes is a Royal College certified General surgeon with specialized training in minimally invasive general surgery techniques.
Dr. Forbes has a bachelor’s degree in multidisciplinary Health Sciences from the University of Ottawa. She attended medical school at Memorial University of Newfoundland and pursued her general surgery residency at the University of Alberta. She then went to obtain a surgical fellowship at the University of Manitoba completing a minimally invasive and bariatric surgery fellowship as well as a received requirements for the metabolic and bariatric certification from the American society for Metabolic and Bariatric surgery.
Her clinical interests are focused on hernia techniques and foregut pathology while maintaining a community and acute care surgery practice in Edmonton. She is a clinical lecturer at the University of Alberta and remains involved in the continual surgical education of students and residents. Her research background and interests have focused mainly on quality improvement and local chart review to affect changes in local practice.
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