Dr. Walley J. Temple

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  www.sgo.org/meetings/2004Annual/Program/highlights_even - [Cached Version]
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  Walley J. Temple, MD, University of Calgary and the Tom Baker Cancer Centre
  
  This year's second annual Hugh R.K. Barber Endowed Lecture will be presented by not one, but three distinguished medical professionals dedicated to treating women with gynecologic malignancies - Carmel J. Cohen, MD, Randy Rowland, MD and Walley J. Temple, MD.
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  Dr. Walley J. Temple, Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology and Professor with the Departments of Oncology and Surgery with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary and the Tom Baker Cancer Centre will speak on bowel surgery.A pioneer in surgical oncology development and research at the University of Calgary and the Tom Baker Cancer Centre, he is also the Director of the Surgical Oncology Residency Training Program.His research interest includes sarcoma, melanoma, rectal cancer and screening and breast cancer.

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  Walley J. Temple, MD, FRSCS, FACS; Randall G. Rowland, MD, PhD and Carmel J. Cohen, MD are scheduled to conduct presentations at the lecture.
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  Dr. Walley J. Temple, from the University of Calgary and the Tom Baker Cancer Centre, will present on "The Evolution of Pelvic Exenteration for Colorectal Cancer and Pelvic Sarcoma."Dr. Temple will discuss the evolution of pelvic exenteration for colorectal cancer and pelvic sarcoma, particularly how significant changes in anastomatic techniques, anesthesia and antibiotics, plastic surgery and understanding biology of cancer that tumors above the levators spread in a craniad direction has dramatically changed the morbidity and mortality of pelvic exenteration.

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  Alberta develops world's first electronic surgical... - [Cached Version]
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  Dr. Walley Temple, Chief of Surgical Oncology at the Alberta Cancer Board's Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary says, "This approach has really moved surgery from an art to a science.Suddenly, you can analyze what works and what doesn't work."
  
  It's as effective as dictating, says Temple, but produces 50 per cent more information, on average, than narrative reporting.

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  CAREpath Inc. The Cancer Assistance Program - [Cached Version]
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  Dr. Walley Temple , Chief, Surgical Oncology, Tom Baker Cancer Centre

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  Canadian Healthcare Technology - June/July 2006 issue - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/7/2005    Last Visited: 12/1/2006  

  "Our initial phase has been more than successful," says Dr. Walley Temple, chief of surgical oncology at the Alberta Cancer Board's Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary.
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  "This synoptic method of reporting operations is as effective as dictating, but produces 50 percent more information, on average, than narrative reporting," Dr. Temple says.
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  Dr. Temple assumed the leadership of CSA reporting to Dr. Anthony Fields, vice president, medical affairs and community oncology at ACB.
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  Dr. Temple says the project team received "absolute commitment" from surgeons throughout the project and credits them for their willingness to subject themselves to critiques.
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  "You wouldn't think changing from narrative format to digital would make a difference, but the system is built in such a way that it did," Dr. Temple says."By the end of the project, what I came to appreciate is how complex our system is."
  
  Still, it's been more than worth the effort.While in the past, guidelines tended to get shelved because there was no seamless way to systematically incorporate them into the surgical documentation process, "These synoptic reports, through the templates we designed, automatically build in guidelines," Dr. Temple says.
  
  "The other amazing thing that has come out of this is that, because surgeons know so much about the patients, they can add so many new things to the information that formerly wasn't part of surgical record, but might be factors in patient outcomes."
  
  For example, the analysis of surgical practices, such as why patients with rectal cancer are having anal preserving process rather than a colostomy, can be made more accurately with the expanded data.
  
  In the short term, Dr. Temple is looking at WebSMR being used across Alberta within 1-1/2 years.Beyond that, he says, "Our vision is that this unique approach is going to be a nation-wide standard."
  
  The potential of this tool isn't limited to oncology."This is kind of the mother pilot for all surgery.It digitizes our work so we can analyze it through dynamic, real-time feedback."It's not even limited to surgery.Eventually, Dr. Temple would like to see the integration of other specialties - medical and radiation oncology - on the system, "So we can understand more of the biology of cancer, and integrate the three ... morbidity.

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  Cancer Biology Research Group - Dr. Walley Temple - [Cached Version]
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  Chirurgie générale oncologique - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/16/2002    Last Visited: 8/1/2003  

  Dr. Walley J. Temple Division of General Surgical Oncology

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  Health Sciences Association of BC :: The Report - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/25/2001    Last Visited: 4/7/2006  

  I'll close with a quote from Dr. Walley Temple, Chief of Surgical Oncology at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary, from his address to the Friends of Medicare Rally in Edmonton on April 16, 2000.

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  Dr. Walley Temple, Chief of Surgical Oncology, Tom Baker Cancer Centre and professor of surgery at the University of Calgary Medical School.

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  Memorial Today - Events Calendar - [Cached Version]
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  Description: Dr. Walley J. Temple, professor and chief of Surgical Oncology at the University of Calgary, will speak on the Evolution of Pelvic Exenteration.Reception at 4:40 p.m. outside main auditorium.

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