3 Best Neurosurgeons in Edmonton, AB

“Dr. Vivek Mehta graduated from Queen’s University in 1992 and finished his neurosurgical residency at Dalhousie University. He then did his clinical fellowship training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital and completed a Master of Science in Epidemiology at Harvard University. Dr. Vivek Mehta was an assistant professor of Neurosurgery at Dalhousie University. For the last 18 years, he has been a pediatric and adult neurosurgeon at the University of Alberta. He is a clinical professor of neurosurgery at the University of Alberta with a clinical interest in pediatric neurosurgery and neuro-oncology. Dr. Vivek Mehta has been the Neurosurgical Residency Program Director and a Royal College Neurosurgical Exam Committee member. He is the Specialty Chair of Neurosurgery at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He co-founded Neurosurgery Kids Fund and has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications.

“Dr. Tim Darsaut attended medical school at Queen's University, where he graduated in 2002. He then completed a neurosurgical residency at the University of Alberta in 2008. He is interested in doing neurovascular clinical trials, and he is currently executing many international randomized care trials on unruptured aneurysms (CURES), ruptured aneurysms (ISAT-2), flow diverting stents (FIAT), and arteriovenous malformations (TOBAS and TATAM), among others. Dr. Tim Darsaut is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons Canada and has over 100 peer-reviewed publications in the neurosurgical field. Dr. Tim Darsaut is appointed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry.

“Dr. Cian O'Kelly is an academic neurosurgeon and Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Alberta. He graduated from medical school at the University of Alberta in 2001. He completed his neurosurgical residency training at the University of Toronto and earned a master's degree in clinical epidemiology at the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation. He focuses on performing cerebrovascular and skull base neurosurgery combined with endovascular neurointerventional surgeries. He also has research interests, including subarachnoid hemorrhage epidemiology, aneurysm treatment, and AVM treatments. Dr. Cian O'Kelly is currently the Neurosurgery Site Lead at the University of Alberta Hospital, the Competency Committee Chair for the neurosurgery residency program, examiner and exam committee member (cerebrovascular lead) at the Royal College, and the National Director of the Canadian Neurosurgery Rookie camp.