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 former President of the Canadian Spine Society. In 2019 Dr Fisher was awarded the North American Spine Society’s Leon Wiltse Award, recognizing excellence in leadership and clinical research in spine care.
Dr. Fisher has special research interests in spine trauma, oncology and evidence-based medicine. For 8 years he was Chairman of the AO Knowledge Forum Tumour an international group of spine oncology surgeon thought leaders committed to advancing the understanding of spine oncology management through education and multi-center research. He stepped down in 2021 to become chair of the AO Spine International Research Commission for a 3-year term. Dr Fisher contributes regularly to articles regarding Deformity, Oncology, SCI, Trauma and Degenerative conditions of the spine in the Global Spine Journal; entitled AO Spine Clinical Practice Recommendations. Dr Fisher was the lead author of the SINS classification for metastatic spine disease, now broadly adopted worldwide by both spine surgical and oncology disciplines.
Dr Fisher is the past chairman of the steering committee for the Canadian Spine Outcomes and Research Network (CSORN); a multicenter research network and registry he initiated in 2013. He now sits on the Advisory Board of CSORN and will take over as the Executive Director of the Canadian Spine Society in 2026.
Dr. Fisher has authored over 400 peer-reviewed publications and has co-edited 4 textbooks. He has been the special guest editor for two focus issues in Spine Oncology for the journal Spine. He formally sat on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Neurosurgery Spine and is an Associate Editor for the journal Spine. He is a regular guest lecturer at spinal events around the world and in 2013 and 2016 was honoured as one of the top 28 spine surgeons in North America.
Dr. Fisher attended UCLA on a soccer scholarship and graduated with honours degree in Kinesiology. He attended Dalhousie University Medical School, and completed his residency at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Fisher did a Spine Fellowship at the University of Western Ontario, in London.
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