Claire Temple-oberle BA, MD, MSc, FRCSC

Dr. Claire Temple-Oberle is a professor of surgery and oncology at the University of Calgary. She completed her medical training at Queen’s University, her plastic surgery residency at Western University, and her fellowships in microvascular surgery and cutaneous oncology at the MD Anderson Cancer Centre and Tom Baker Cancer Centre respectively. Dr. Temple-Oberle completed her Masters in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and is currently pursing a Masters of Education at the University of Dundee.

Her practice focuses on melanoma and breast reconstruction. She is the lead of the Cutaneous tumour group at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre. Her research interests including improving outcomes of breast reconstruction, intralesional therapy for in transit melanoma, and surgical simulation in microsurgery.