Sherif Emil

Sherif Emil, MD, CM, FACS, FRCSC, FAAP is the Mirella and Lino Saputo Foundation Chair in Pediatric Surgical Education and Patient and Family-Centered Care in the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University. He is also Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Surgery, and Pediatrics, and the Associate Chair for Education and Departmental Citizenship in the Department of Pediatric Surgery. Since 2008, he has served as the Director of the Harvey E. Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery at The Montreal Children’s Hospital. He currently directs Canada’s first multidisciplinary Chest Wall Anomalies Clinic at the Shriners Hospital for Children, and is the Pediatric Surgery Specialty Consultant for Mercy Ships International.

Dr. Emil completed a chemical engineering degree at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, graduating cum laude. He obtained his medical degree from McGill University and completed his surgical residency at Loma Linda University. He also completed a research fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, producing the first surgical publications on the use of inhaled nitric oxide for pulmonary hypertension. He completed his pediatric surgical fellowship at the Montreal Children's Hospital in 2001.

Before assuming his current position at McGill, he was Associate Professor of Surgery and Head of the Division of Pediatric Surgery at the University of California Irvine.

Dr. Emil has published more than 140 manuscripts and several book chapters on many topics in pediatric surgery. In 2019, he published Clinical Pediatric Surgery: A Case-Based Interactive Approach, the first single-authored major textbook in the field. He currently serves as the Founding Chair of the Canadian Consortium for Research in Pediatric Surgery (CanCORPS). He was named one of America’s Best Doctors, as well as one of Canada’s Best Doctors.

Dr. Emil also has been actively engaged in global surgery. He has written about his mission experiences in The Globe and Mail, and his dispatches from several African countries have been published in the Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons and shared widely on social media. He currently travels to Africa annually to serve with Mercy Ships.

In 2012, Dr. Emil was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Governor General of Canada for his service to children around the world and his academic accomplishments in pediatric surgery. Most recently, he was awarded the E. P. Taylor Award by the McGill Alumni Association and the Haile Debas Prize by the McGill University Faculty of Medicine.