Dr. Tamir Ailon is a neurosurgeon specializing in adult spinal deformity with the Spine Surgery Institute at Vancouver General Hospital. Dr. Ailon’s current practice focuses on degenerative spinal disorders, spinal deformity including scoliosis, craniocervical junction abnormalities, spinal tumors, and trauma. Dr. Ailon also serves as a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Orthopaedics at the… Read more…

Dr. Paul Bishop has the combined qualifications of a chiropractor (DC), a medical doctor (MD) and a research scientist (PhD). He is a Clinical Professor in the Division of Spine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of British Columbia. He has completed the North American Spine Society training program to administer image-guided therapeutic and… Read more…

Dr. Michael Bond completed medical school at the University of Toronto and went on to complete his residency training in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of British Columbia. During residency training he completed a Master of Health Sciences degree at the University of British Columbia with a focus on research methodology and statistical analysis in… Read more…

Dr. Charest-Morin completed her medical degree and post-graduate training in orthopaedic surgery at Laval University in Québec City. After completing her spine surgery fellowship with us, she returned to practice in Quebec, rapidly becoming one of the most sought-after orthopaedic spine surgeons for complex cases and spinal oncology. Following several years of successful practice in her… Read more…

Dr. Newton Cho is a surgeon-scientist with the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD) at Vancouver General Hospital. He completed his neurosurgical residency training at the University of Toronto in 2023. During his residency training, he also completed a PhD with Grégoire Courtine at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) examining neuromodulation to improve walking… Read more…

Dr Charlotte Dandurand is a spinal neurosurgeon with the Combined Neurosurgical and Orthopaedic Spine Program at Vancouver General Hospital. Dr Dandurand’s current practice focuses on minimally invasive surgery, degenerative spinal disorders, cranio-cervical junction abnormalities, intra-dural pathologies, and trauma. She serves as Clinical Instructor in the Department of Orthopedics at the University of British Columbia. Dr Dandurand’s… Read more…

Dr. Dea is the Division Head of the Combined Neurosurgical & Orthopaedic Spine Program at Vancouver General Hospital in addition to a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of British Columbia. He completed his MD program and neurosurgical training in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and his spine surgery fellowship in Vancouver, BC. Dr. Dea completed his… Read more…

In Memoriam   Dr. Marcel Dvorak is a full-time Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of British Columbia and holds the Cordula & Günter Paetzold Chair of Clinical Spinal Cord Injury Research. He was the Head of the Division of Spine, Department of Orthopaedics at Vancouver General Hospital and the Medical Director of the Combined… Read more…

Dr. Fisher is Professor and the former Head of the Combined Neurosurgical & Orthopaedic Spine Program at Vancouver General Hospital and the University of British Columbia. His practice is confined to adult spine surgery with subspecialty clinical interests in trauma and oncology. He has a Masters Degree in Health Care and Epidemiology and is the… Read more…

Dr. Brad Jacobs completed his neurosurgical residency at the University of Toronto and then pursued an orthopaedic spinal surgery fellowship at the University of Washington/Harborview Medical Center in Seattle under the mentorship of Drs. Jens Chapman, Carlo Bellabarba and Rick Bransford. After his spinal surgery fellowship, Dr. Jacobs was recruited to the University of Calgary… Read more…

Dr. Brian Kwon is an internationally recognized, award-winning surgeon-scientist with the Vancouver Spine Surgery Institute at Vancouver General Hospital. Dr. Kwon completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery at the University of British Columbia in 2000, and then went on to complete a PhD in neuroscience at UBC, studying spinal cord injury repair.   In 2003 he… Read more…

Dr. Scott Paquette completed his neurosurgery training in Ottawa prior to a fellowship overseas in Melbourne, Australia. He returned to Canada in 2004 to join the Division of Spine at Vancouver General Hospital. His UBC appointment is within the Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery with cross appointment with the Department of Orthopedics and holds an… Read more…

Following dual training in both general surgery and orthopaedics, and after completing his PhD in bone repair with the Royal College of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, Dr. John Street joined the Spine program in Vancouver in 2006. His clinical practice focuses on the surgical management of complex adult spinal deformity.  He is Director of the Integrated… Read more…