Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Toronto; Odette Cancer Centre - Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Canada
Dr. Hallet is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto and a Surgical Oncologist with a clinical practice devoted to hepato-biliary, pancreatic and upper gastrointestinal malignancies at the Odette Cancer Centre - Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Her practice further focuses on minimally invasive therapies, as well as neuroendocrine tumors as part of the Susan Leslie Multidisciplinary Clinic for Neuroendocrine Tumors. She completed general surgery residency and MSc in clinical epidemiology at Université Laval in Québec City, followed by a Surgical Oncology fellowship in the hepato-pancreatio-biliary track program at the University of Toronto, and additional training in advanced minimally invasive and robotic hepato-pancreatico-biliary surgery at the Institut de recherche contre les cancers de l’appareil digestif (IRCAD) in Strasbourg, France.
Dr. Hallet’s research focuses on health services research to examine processes, patterns of care, and outcomes of hepato-pancreato-biliary malignancies and neuroendocrine tumors, with a focus on patient engagement and patient-reported/patient-centred outcomes. Her research is supported by operating grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Ontario Institute of Cancer Research, as well as prior early career investigator awards from the Society of Surgery of the Alimentary Tract and the North-American Neuroendocrine Tumors Society. Dr. Hallet has contributed internationally to guidelines creation to improve the care of neuroendocrine tumors. She has over 175 peer-reviewed publications, including many high-impact papers in JAMA Surgery, JAMA Oncology, the Journal of the NCCN, and Annals of Surgery.