Qualification

• MB
• BS
• FRCS
• FRSC(Ed) (SN)
• FRCSC

Qualification

• MD
• FRCSC

In 1998, Dr. Pirouzmand finished his residency in the University of Toronto's neurosurgical training programme. After that, he finished a year-long fellowship in spinal trauma and peripheral nerve surgery as well as a year-long fellowship in skull base and reconstructive surgery. He worked as the programme director of neurosurgery at the University of Saskatchewan before joining the neurosurgical faculty at the University of Toronto in 2003. While there, he also finished a Masters in Epidemiology on the subject of skull topographic organisation. His main research interests are in orbital reconstructive surgery, spine, peripheral nerve, and skull base surgery. At Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, he actively participates in neurosurgery clinical studies. At the University of Toronto, he holds leadership positions in undergraduate and resident education.

Qualification

• MD
• MSc
• FRCSC

Dr. Kongkham started his neurosurgery residency in Toronto in 2001 after completing medical school at the University of Toronto. He enrolled in the surgeon-scientist programme in 2004 and worked with Dr. James Rutka at the Hospital for Sick Children to complete his PhD work on the genomes and epigenetics of paediatric medulloblastoma. In 2011, he received his Ph.D. in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology from the Toronto programme and was inducted as a Member of the Royal College of Doctors and Surgeons of Canada. Dr. Kongkham started a clinical fellowship in neurosurgical oncology at the MD Anderson Cancer Institute in July 2011 and was hired as a staff member in the Division of Neurosurgery at Toronto Western Hospital in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor at The University of Toronto's Department of Surgery. The genomes and epigenetics of primary and metastatic adult brain cancers are the main topics of his research. The Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumor Research Centre at The Hospital for Sick Children houses his research facility.

Qualification

• MD
• PhD
• FRCSC

Currently occupying the Greg Wilkins-Barrick Chair in International Surgery is Dr. Mark Bernstein. His research focuses on teaching surgeons how to use cutting-edge, long-lasting neurosurgical methods, most notably awake craniotomy. He is the first surgeon to have ever done this operation and taught others how to do it in numerous nations.

Qualification

• BSc
• MD
• FRCSC
• MHSc

Qualification

• MD

Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto is Dr. Gelareh Zadeh. She works for the University Health Network's Toronto Western Hospital as a neurosurgeon-scientist. Most recently, the Wilkins Family Chair in Brain Tumor Research was given to her. Her clinical practise is focused on Skull Base Neuro-oncology, and she has established and is actively involved in numerous multidisciplinary clinics, including the skull base, pituitary, brain metastases, gamma knife, and neurofibromatosis clinics. She also has a dedicated general brain tumour clinic. She is committed to and actively participating in the effort to advance surgical clinical trials. Her lab's primary areas of study include the molecular mechanisms underlying glioma angiogenesis and the metabolic regulators of tumours. examining in particular how cells from the bone marrow help gliomas' tumour vasculature and how differentiation into the macrophage and microglia populations contributes to avoiding anti-angiogenic therapy. The laboratory's second area of study, tumour metabolism, looks at how altered metabolism in response to anti-angiogenic therapy interacts with one another. She also has a translational study that is focused on mapping the menignomas and schwannomas' genomic landscape. Peer-reviewed funding from several organisations, including the CIHR, Terry Fox New Investigator grant, CCSRI, CRS, Brain Child, and others, are used to fund her lab.

Qualification

• BSc
• MD
• PhD
• FRCSC
• FAANS

For more than 20 years, Michael D. Cusimano, MD, MHPE, FRCSC, PhD, FACS, has been one of the top craniobase neurosurgeons in North America. He was the first to describe the totally endoscopic bi-nasal approach to the cranial base and was recognised as Canada's top surgical educator. He is well-known for his teaching style and clinical abilities as the first surgeon in the world to be a practising surgeon with a PhD in education. Several of the current trends in biology, education, prevention, and quality of life were not yet in existence when he conducted his vast, inventive, and ground-breaking study.

Qualification

• MD
• MHPE
• FRCSC
• PhD
• FACS

At the moment, Dr. Golan serves as an Associate Professor in the McGill University Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery. Since 2010, he has served as the division's chief at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Canada. Neurosurgeon with a specialty in the spine and assistant professor at McGill University, Dr. Golan. Modern minimally invasive and motion-preserving surgery is his area of expertise. He has conducted over 3500 surgeries and has been named a "Center of Excellence" by RIWO-Spine.

Qualification

• MD

Since 2009, Alan Evans has held the James McGill Chair in Neurology and Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, and Biomedical Engineering at McGill University. He also works as a researcher at The Neuro's McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC). He is the Neurosciences Victor Dahdaleh Chair. He serves as co-director of the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health and as the project's principal investigator for CBRAIN, a national initiative to connect the high-performance computing grid of Compute Canada with domestic brain research.

Qualification

• PhD
• FRCS
• FCAHS