3 Best Neurosurgeons in Calgary

“Dr. Garnette Sutherland is one of the leading neurosurgeons in Calgary, AB. He received his undergraduate education in both science and medicine at the University of Manitoba. He finished his residency in Neurosurgery at the University of Western Ontario. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery) and Pharmacology at the University of Manitoba and promoted to Associate Professor in 1988. He accepted the Professor and Head of Neurosurgery position at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences in 1993. His primary research focus has been the application of MR techniques to the study of neurological diseases. Dr. Sutherland is also the Founding Director of the Seaman Family MR Research Centre. He was awarded the Order of Canada for his outstanding contribution to neurosurgery in 2012.”

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“Dr. Alim Mitha is a well-known neurosurgeon in Calgary, AB. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After graduating from medical school at the University of Alberta, he completed his residency training in Neurosurgery at the University of Calgary. He also completed a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering at Harvard University and a research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Additionally, he completed two years of clinical subspecialty training at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Since 2011, he has practiced as a Cerebrovascular, Endovascular, and Skull Base Neurosurgeon at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary. Dr. Mitha is the scientific leader of a research laboratory at the University of Calgary affiliated with the Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Libin Cardiovascular Institute, focusing on biomedical device development.”

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“Dr. Walter John Hader is an experienced neurosurgeon in Calgary, AB. He received his undergraduate degree from Mercyhurst College in Pennsylvania. He completed his medical degree at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Hader obtained his residency at the University of British Columbia and his fellowship in Toronto. He specializes in epilepsy and pediatric neurosurgery. His research focuses on the determinants of health in children with hydrocephalus and the surgical treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy in the intra-operative MR setting. He also researches the neuropsychological and visual consequences of selective amygdalohippocampectomies versus standard temporal lobectomies for intractable epilepsy. Dr. Walter is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Calgary.”

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