Dr. Kay was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She completed medical school at McGill University and spent 1 year in their Pediatric residency program before transferring into General Surgery. She pursued her fellowship training in Pediatric Surgery at McGill University's Montreal Children's Hospital before coming to Denver to spend 6 months doing a laparoscopic and thoracoscopic fellowship at Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center under the supervision of Dr. Rothenberg. Before joining the practice in September 2004, Dr. Kay and her husband Jeff Sankoff travelled the world for six months, an invaluable experience. She is now happily settled in Denver with her husband and young daughter, Samantha.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Publications and Presentations:

National and International Presentations:

1. McGill University Health Center Neonatal Update Conference, Montreal, Quebec, October 5: "Surgical Emergencies in the Newborn" 2001
2. 33rd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Winnipeg, Manitoba, September-cancelled: "A Giant Fetal Cervical Teratoma Managed by Prenatal Cyst Aspiration and the EXIT Procedure" accepted for presentation 2001
3. 30th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Toronto, Ontario, September 25-28: "The Use of Antenatal Steroids to Counteract the Negative Effects of Tracheal Occlusion in the Fetal Lamb Model" 1998
4. 30th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Toronto, Ontario, September 25-28: "Prenatal Percutaneous Needle Drainage of Cystic Sacrococcygeal Teratomas" 1998
5. 30th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Toronto, Ontario, September 25-28: "Revisiting the Role of Routine Retropleural Drainage After Repair of Esophageal Atresia with Distal Tracheoesophageal Fistula" 1998
6. 28th Annual Meeting of the American Pediatric Surgical Association, Naples, Florida, May 18-21: "Injection Sclerotherapy in the Treatment of Rectal Prolapse in Infants and Children" 1997

Publications

1. Kay S, Rothenberg S. Thoracoscopic Drainage and Debridement of Empyema. In Rothenberg S, et al, eds. Pediatric Minimally Invasive Surgery. In press.
2. Puligandla PS, Kay S, Morin L, Desilets V, Jutras L, Shum-Tim D, Bernard C, Flageole H: Pericardial Hemangioma Presenting as a Thoracic Mass in Utero. Fetal Diagn Ther 19:2, 178-181, 2004
3. Al-Shaikhi A, Kay S, Laberge JM: External Jugular Venous Aneurysm: An Unusual Cause of a Neck Mass in a Young Child. J Pediatr Surg 38:10, 1557-1559, 2003
4. Nguyen LT, Kay S: Choledochal Cyst: A Surgical Perspective. Emedicine Journal at www.emedicine.com
5. Kay S, Flageole H: Adrenal Glands. Emedicine Journal at www.emedicine.com; in final editing phase
6. Liberman M, Kay S, Emil S, Flageole H, Nguyen LT, Tewfik TL, Oudjane K, Laberge JM: Ten Years of Experience With Third and Fourth Branchial Remnants. J Pediatr Surg 37:5, 685-690, 2002
7. Kay S, Laberge JM, Flageole H, Richardson S, Belanger S, Piedboeuf B: The Use of Antenatal Steroids to Counteract the Negative Effects of Tracheal Occlusion in the Fetal Lamb Model. Pediatric Research 50: 495-501, 2001
8. Bratu I, Flageole H, Laberge JM, Possmayer F, Harbottle R, Kay S, Khalife S, Piedboeuf B: Surfactant Levels After Reversible Fetal Tracheal Occlusion and Prenatal Steroids in Experimental Diaphragmatic Hernia. J pediatr Surg 36:1, 122-127, 2001
9. Kay S, Khalife S, Laberge JM, Shaw K, Morin L, Flageole H: Prenatal Percutaneous Needle Drainage of Cystic Sacrococcygeal Teratomas. J Pediatr Surg 34:7, 1148-1151, 1999
10. Kay Saundra, Shaw Ken: Revisiting the Role of Routine Retropleural Drainage After Repair of Esophageal Atresia With Distal Tracheoesophageal Fistula. J Pediatr Surg 34:7, 1082-1085, 1999
11. Chan W KY, Kay S, Laberge JM, Gallucci JG, Bensoussan A L, Yazbeck S: Injection Sclerotherapy in the Treatment of Rectal Prolapse in Infants and Children. J Pediatr Surg 33:2, 255-258, 1998

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