Frances Wright

A graduate of the University of Toronto Medical School in 1996, Dr. Wright entered the General Surgery Training Program at Queen's University, Kingston in 1996. She became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2001. She completed a Surgical Oncology Fellowship at the University of Toronto in 2003. After completing a Masters in Education at OISE at the University of Toronto in 2004 which focused on continuing medical education or knowledge translation, she began her general surgery staff appointment at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in 2004. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Surgery at The University of Toronto. Her clinical practice is devoted to breast cancer and melanoma. She is currently consulting for Cancer Care Ontario concerning multidisciplinary cancer conferences and their provincial implementation. Her research interests are knowledge translation. She became Director of the General Surgical Oncology Fellowship Program in 2010 and Fellowship Director of the Division of General Surgery at the University of Toronto in 2014.  

Academic Focus:
Knowledge translation