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Dr. Antonio Caycedo-Marulanda is a staff Colorectal Surgeon at Kingston Health Sciences Center and holds an Associate Professor rank at the Department of Surgery of Queen’s University, in Kingston, Ontario. He moved to Canada in 2004 after completing his general surgery residency at Javeriana University in Bogota, Colombia. He retrained as a general surgeon at the University of Ottawa and subsequently underwent subspecialty training in colorectal surgery at Western University in London, Ontario. Afterwards, he took a position at Health Sciences North (HSN) and was able to create and develop a colorectal surgery program from scratch, this unit remains active and serves the population of Northern Ontario. While working at HSN, Dr Caycedo introduced transanal minimally invasive surgery (TAMIS) to Canada and pioneered transanal total mesorectal excision (taTME) in the country as well. Also developed multiple initiatives including the implementation of the institutional ERAS program. He spent almost 9 years at HSN before moving to Kingston where he accepted a staff position through Queen’s University, which currently has the highest volume of robotic surgery in the country.
Dr. Caycedo also completed a masters in clinical research through the University of Liverpool. He belongs to multiple societies and is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada, the Canadian Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, the American College of Surgeons (ACS), The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS). He is a member of the new technologies committee for both SAGES and ASCRS. He was the regional surgical oncology lead for Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) in Northeastern Ontario for five years. Dr Caycedo is currently and examiner for the general surgery board of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada. He has been very active in the development of taTME in Canada and has collaborated at a global scale, being part of the global consensus for safe implementation of taTME and creating the Canadian taTME Expert COllaboration (CaTaCO), also contributing cases to the international registry and the COLOR 3 study. He has authored more than 50 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed impact factored scientific journals, 3 book chapters and has presented at multiple forums nationally and internationally, currently is working on furthering surgical innovation and robotic surgery. Dr. Caycedo also co-authored to the pan-Canadian guidelines for the management of Rectal Cancer. His main professional and scientific interests focus on rectal oncology surgery, minimally invasive surgery (advanced laparoscopy, TAMIS, taTME and Robotic assisted surgery). He is also interested in environmentally sustainable surgery.