Dr. Sherif Emil is a distinguished pediatric surgeon and educator at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He holds the Mirella and Lino Saputo Foundation Chair in Pediatric Surgical Education and Patient and Family-Centered Care and serves as the Associate Chair for Education in the Department of Pediatric Surgery. He is also a professor in Pediatric Surgery, Surgery, and Pediatrics.

Dr. Emil directed the Harvey E. Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery at The Montreal Children’s Hospital from 2008 to 2024. He founded and currently directs Canada’s first multidisciplinary Chest Wall Anomalies Center at the Shriners Hospital for Children, Canada. Additionally, he is a Pediatric Surgery Specialty Consultant for Mercy Ships International.

Born in Cairo, Egypt, Dr. Emil grew up in various developing countries. He completed his undergraduate studies in chemical engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and earned his medical degree from McGill University in 1991. He completed his surgical residency at Loma Linda University in California, where he conducted pioneering research on inhaled nitric oxide for pulmonary hypertension. After his pediatric surgery fellowship at McGill, he joined the University of California, Irvine, where he led the Division of Pediatric Surgery before returning to McGill in 2008.