Dr. Jeffrey Shum MD, FRCSC, FACS

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Dr. Jeffrey Shum MD, FRCSC, FACS

Dr. Shum is a General Surgeon and Intensivist practicing in Sudbury, Ontario Canada. Dr. Jeffrey Shum is from London, Ontario Canada.

He attended the University of Western Ontario and graduated with a Bachelors degree in Biology in 2000. He then went to Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and graduated with his MD in 2004 before returning to the University of Western Ontario for residency. He completed General Surgery in 2009, specialist training in Critical Care Medicine in 2010 and then a Multi-Organ Transplant Surgery Fellowship in 2012. His areas of academic interests include hepatopancreatobiliary surgery, critical care medicine, trauma, ERCP and undergraduate medical education. He became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 2015 and is American Board Certified in General Surgery.

03/27/2024

Several years ago, Mr. Carswell was incredibly irritable when he was hungry. Sensing that something was wrong, he started checking his blood sugars and noticed that during these episodes, they were profoundly low. Further investigations with cross sectional imaging identified a 2cm lesion in the pancreas that was consistent with an insulinoma.

He was referred to my office and we performed a successful Whipple resection. He came by for a visit and is doing very well. His scars are barely noticeable and he no longer gets "Hangry"!

03/14/2024

Special thanks to Intuitive Surgical for bringing up the Da Vinci robot for a demo. After a brief introduction, I am convinced that this technology will be the future of surgery. The setup no longer takes hours and has become incredibly simple. I was able to confidently tie knots, cut and sew in a matter of minutes.The case cost is also quite reasonable and robotic assisted prostatectomy is already standard of care in many hospitals.

Robotic surgery in Sudbury would be awesome and would push this old dog to learn some new tricks!

03/12/2024

10 years ago, Mr. Saari had Stage 3 colon cancer. He underwent extensive surgery and chemotherapy at HSN. I have done his surveillance endoscopy regularly for the last decade and he's cancer free!

01/24/2023

Ms. Fry is a colon cancer survivor. She presented in 2016 with a change in her bowels and some bleeding, which prompted a colonoscopy. Sure enough, a cancer was found. She had a laparoscopic colectomy and now 7 years later she just finished another surveillance colonoscopy. All clear!

If you have worrisome symptoms don't ignore them. Get checked out!

01/09/2023

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6653674

I perform over 200 colonoscopies a year. Although most are normal, occasionally I identify an occult colon or re**al cancer.

With colon cancer being the second most common cause of cancer death in Canada, doctors say colonoscopies are an important procedure to have when necessary to catch cancer early.

12/27/2022

You might think that crashing a motorcycle would be a disaster, but for Mr. Menard, it was quite the opposite. In 2017, Mr. Menard was riding his bike when he was hit by a car. His motorcycle was totaled and he badly damaged his left hand. In the ER, he underwent CT scans of his chest, abdomen and pelvis He didn't have any acute abdominal trauma but the report described a surprise - a spot that was worrisome for pancreatic cancer.

To make a long story short, he was referred to me for further work-up and surgery. A Whipple resection was completed and sure enough there was a small Stage I pancreatic cancer. He is now over 5 years from that fretful day and he is doing well.

I highlight his case because surgery can control early pancreatic cancers. Unlike breast and colon cancer surveillance, there are no such screening programs for pancreatic cancers. The majority of the patients that I see with jaundice already have larger cancers with nodal disease.

For more information on pancreatic cancers, send me a message!

12/02/2022

The liver is the most common organ that colore**al cancer can metastasize to. Whenever possible, surgical resection is the preferred treatment. Chemotherapy, radiation and other multimodality options can improve prognosis in Stage 4 disease.

11/29/2022

A 75-year old female underwent a complicated laparoscopic cholecystectomy and her common bile duct was divided just below the confluence of the right and left hepatic ducts. She underwent Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy and did well for 10 months. Unfortunately, she developed obstructive jaundice and a cholangiogram demonstrated stricture at the anastomosis.

A percutaneous transhepatic catheter was able to traverse the stricture and resolve her jaundice.

11/08/2022

Ask your primary care provider about Ontario's eConsult service. Highly under utilized and may save patients time and money!

eConsult is a secure web-based tool that allows physician or nurse practitioner timely access to specialist advice for all patients and often eliminates the ...

05/01/2022

https://www.thesudburystar.com/opinion/columnists/sudbury-column-secretive-incompetent-leadership-doomed-laurentian-university

They failed the university, its staff and the community by creating a financial mess

02/05/2022

This is Anette. At age of 65 she developed severe pancreatitis and presented to the hospital where subsequent investigations including MRI identified a periampullary mass.

After an ERCP, she was diagnosed with a cancer.

Fortunately, she had surgically treatable disease and after an all day Whipple resection, the cancer was removed. After a tough two week hospital stay, she was able to be discharged.

"There were times it was difficult as I was getting many appointments to make sure the cancer had not spread. Periodically I had blood work done and visits with Dr. Shum to reassure me there were no signs of cancer.

I didn’t need chemo or radiation therapy.

It’s been four years that I have been in remission. I am a cancer survivor.

To this day I am cancer free and a live a good life. I’m grateful to God for all those who played a part in my recovery. I hope and pray that my story would give hope to one and all." - Annette Larabie

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Suite 3-22B. 885 Regent Street
Greater Sudbury, ON
P3E5M4

Website

http://www.drjbshum.ca/

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About Me

Growing up in London Ontario, I could not tell you where Sudbury was on a map. In fact, I don’t think I had even heard of this place until perhaps my Transplant Fellowship years where I flew here a bunch of times to procure organs. I remember driving towards the hospital in the early morning and seeing the helicopter pad on the roof, with blinking lights and thinking, “Wow, that’s pretty cool. Maybe I’ll end up working here one day.”

Sure enough, in 2013, I did end up moving here to start a hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgery program at Health Sciences North. Prior to this move, I was a London boy, having done my Bachelors degree in Biology at UWO in 2000 and then a General Surgery residency in 2009, specialist training in Critical Care Medicine in 2010 and then a Multi-Organ Transplant Surgery Fellowship in 2012. There was a short hiatus in Kingston for medical school between the years 2000 and 2004.

Now, almost 7 years later, I split my time as a surgeon and as an intensive care physician. I have a busy endoscopy practice and I do occasional lumps and bumps. I am involved in teaching students and residents at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, who help me push out a paper or two now and then.

So, there you go. If I am ever your doctor, you won’t have to wonder how I ended up here!