Dr. Kasper Wang

Dr. Kasper Wang is the Robert M. Filler Chair of Paediatric Surgery, Head of General and Thoracic Surgery at The Hospital for Sick Children, and Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine. He received his education at The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Wang received his general surgery training at Stanford University and his paediatric surgery training at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. He subsequently stayed on as faculty at CHLA and the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, where he practiced the full breadth of paediatric general, neonatal, thoracic, and oncologic surgery. Wang is well published in high impact journals such as JAMA, Nature Communications, Cell, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Surgery, Annals of Surgery, Journal of Hepatology, and Pediatrics. Wang is the Past President of the Society of University Surgeons and past Chair of the Western Pediatric Surgery Research Consortium. He is the current Vice Chair of the Pediatric Surgery Board of the American Board of Surgery and will assume the chair in 2023.