Dr. Toni Zhong is a graduate of the Plastic Surgery Residency Training Program at the University of Western Ontario and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2007. Following the completion of her residency, she was awarded the Zeiss Canada Microsurgery Scholarship to pursue a year-long Microvascular and Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She was recruited to join the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive at the University of Toronto in November 2008. in 2011, she obtained her Master's degree in Health Sciences in Clinical Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto and the inaugural Belinda Stronach Chair in Breast Cancer Reconstruction at the University Health Network (UHN). She is the Fellowship Director for the Breast Reconstruction Fellowships Program for the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Toronto. She is also the Clinical and Research Director for the Breast Reconstruction Program at UHN and Mount Sinai Hospital. Her research aims to improve the access of women to optimized techniques of post-mastectomy reconstruction through clinical trials and health services research.