This week, Dr. Abhaya Kulkarni took on the role of Surgeon-in-Chief and Chief of Peri-Operative Services at SickKids. Dr. Kulkarni has been an integral part of SickKids since joining as Staff Neurosurgeon in 2003. Congratulations Dr. Kulkarni! ➡️ bit.ly/3Jd1bIw #SKPeeps

🎉Excited to share our new publication in Movement Disorders Clinical Practice!

We show that the benefits of focused ultrasound for essential tremor extend beyond patients to their caregivers
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Jennifer Rabin, PhD Nir Lipsman Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

A once-in-a-lifetime “crescent sun” in a patch of blue sky, peaking among the overcast grey clouds…a symbol, and a prayer for a patch of peace among the turmoil, for all those who share this sun.

A Canadian-Israeli planned to marry this month. He died saving his fiancée from Hamas nationalpost.com/news/world/isr… via National Post

Great to see Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences in such capable hands and huge congrats Tejas Sankar on this new role.

This is great news

Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman dies, aged 90 ft.com/content/c1a7f8… via @ft

We are excited to introduce you to the five outstanding individuals who will be joining us as #PGY1s in July!

Please join us in congratulating them, and welcoming them to the #UofT #Neurosurgery program and family.

Pranjan Gandhi Arshia Kazerouni

We are thrilled University of Toronto Neurosurgery to welcome Arshia, Casni, Nicholas, Pranjan, and Steven to the Toronto Neurosurgery family. Congrats to all, and wishing you and everyone starting their #neurosurgery journey the absolute best of luck and success in the years ahead! gelareh-zadeh

Congrats Jennifer Rabin, PhD and Harquail Centre team Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre on this critical paper on the safety of Neuromodulation for neuropsychiatric conditions.

How do #neuromodulation interventions affect #cognition ?

Our new Nature Reviews Psychology paper discusses the cognitive effects of #rTMS , #DBS , and #ablation in individuals with psychiatric and neurological conditions.

nature.com/articles/s4415…

Nir Lipsman Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Andy Smith

This shouldn’t be so hard.

Hamas is a designated terrorist organization that has vowed to repeat the atrocities of Oct 7 at every opportunity.

They are the bad guys, enemies of both Israelis and Palestinians. Justifying their heinous acts is shameful.

'This may not have been a Holocaust in scale, but it was in kind. And, for the Israeli nation, born as it was in the shadow of the Holocaust, it can be interpreted no other way.'
-Stephen Harper

nationalpost.com/opinion/stephe…

Canada's FIRST #psilcoybin clinical trial:

Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for treatment resistant depression: A randomized clinical trial evaluating repeated doses of psilocybin

Med by Cell Press UofTPsychiatry @UofT

50day #free full text:
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Public hospitals serve everyone in their communities - acts of intimidation cannot be tolerated. TAHSN

Here’s to many more to come, and praying for the remaining hostages to come home soon. #AmIsraelChai

The Kapshiter family 🕯️

The four members of the Kapshitter - parents, Dina and Evgeny, and their children Aline (age 8) and Eitan - were on a camping trip to elebrate Eitan's 5th birthday when Hamas attacked.

The family tried to escape home in their car, but were caught by…

Next Surgeon, an amazing program that University of Toronto Neurosurgery is incredibly proud to be a part of. Thank you bobby yanagawa for inviting us to take part and spread the word about surgery to the next generation of talented high school students. Akachukwu Nwakoby Temerty Medicine U of T Department of Surgery

Medicine and Society article by National Correspondent Lisa Rosenbaum: Being Well while Doing Well — Distinguishing Necessary from Unnecessary Discomfort in Training nej.md/48DcN2n

#MedEd

Opinion: As the mother of a hostage in Gaza, I feel unbearable anguish and heartbreak theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…