Dr. Rebecca Gladdy

A graduate of Queen’s University Medical School, Dr. Gladdy entered the General Surgery Training Program at The University of Toronto in 1996. During her general surgery training, she undertook research studies as a graduate student in cancer genetics at the University of Toronto and received her Ph.D. in molecular biology in 2003. She became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2005. 

After a clinical fellowship in surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, NY, she began her surgical oncology staff appointment at Mount Sinai and Princess Margaret Hospitals in 2008. Dr. Gladdy is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. Her clinical practice is focused on the management of soft-tissue sarcomas and GI cancers. Dr. Gladdy is also a clinician-scientist at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and her research laboratory is at Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital where she is currently conducting research in the genetics of sarcoma.