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Calgary Spine Program representing at the ERAS® Society conference in Malaga, Spain. Congratulations to the entire Calgary Spine ERAS team!

Drs. Fred Nicholls and Ganesh Swamy representing at Scoliosis Research Society Conference at Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸. Presenting their latest research and catching up with alumni from the Calgary Spine Program!

Attention: Med Students! Join us for an opportunity to learn about our residency program. The CaRMS process is just around the corner! Our Program Director Dr. Riva-Cambrin will be presenting and answering your questions. Mark your calendars. We look forward to seeing you!

This year’s McCaig Institute Wood Forum on “Back Matters” was hosted by 3 of our spinal surgeons: Dr. Swamy: Current knowledge and future research. Dr. Nicholls: The Shape of Things to come: The Normative Alignment database Dr. Cadotte: AI: solutions for Spine Disorders

We have TWO spots left in our upcoming Spine and Peripheral Nerve and Anatomy Surgery Course from Jan 8-10th, 2025. This is the premier cadaveric course aimed at mid- to upper-year orthopaedic, neurosurgery residents, and spine fellows. Email: [email protected] for deets

Excited for this new chapter and looking forward to working with Dr. Jay Riva-Cambrin (current PD) to elevate this program to the next level. 🙌

Congrats Michael Yang, MD MSc FRCSC! Shout out to UCalgaryMedicine medical student Sowmya Gopalakrishnan on her 1st first author publication 🙌.

Congratulations to our superstar spine fellow Newton Cho on his recent publication in Nature Medicine! Novel brain target improves walking after SCI!

Great hands-on cadaver spine and peripheral nerve surgery course by Michael Yang, MD MSc FRCSC and the Calgary Spine Program team. Covered approaches to nearly every part of the nervous system south of the occiput!

We hosted orthopedic and neurosurgery residents across 🇨🇦 for our 17th Annual Spine and Peripheral Nerve Anatomy and Surgery course last week. It was a resounding success, Thank you to all the Faculty and industry partners for making it happen!

Calgary Spine Endoscopy Team visits Elliquence lab in NYC 🇺🇸. Our spine endoscopy program officially starts next week! Stay tuned for more exciting news. Calgary Health Foundation UCalgaryMedicine @calgaryneurosurg Michael Yang, MD MSc FRCSC DCNS Calgary

Congratulations Michael Yang, MD MSc FRCSC, Dr. Thomas, Dr. Casha, and Dr. DuPlessis on this major milestone. We are always at the forefront of innovation in Calgary! Thank you Calgary Health Foundation Calgary Health Foundation for making this possible. DCNS Calgary @calgaryneurosurg

Dr. Brad Jacobs debates subacute weakness in single cervical nerve root - operate or not Canadian Spine Society Conference in Quebec.

Dr. Fred Nicholls debating fuse or not fuse for adjacent segment disease Canadian Spine Society meeting. Big Calgary spine presence at this meeting.

Superstar clinical fellows Dr. Ru Raj and Dr. Newton Cho giving their podium talks at the Canadian Spine Society meeting.

Big Calgary Spine Program contingent at the Canadian Spine Society meeting. Great company, science, and networking.

Congratulations to Dr. Ru Raj, our clinical fellow on winning the Best Fellows Abstract at the Canadian Spine Society meeting. 🎉🙌🙌 His project on #ERAS program in Spinal Surgery was supervised by Michael Yang, MD MSc FRCSC.

Congrats Abdul Al-Shawwa who won the Debbie Scarlett Award for Best Paper for a med student/resident Canadian Spine Society meeting. He is a 1st year medical student UCalgaryMedicine. His study on Advanced Imaging in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy was supervised by Dr. David Cadotte. 🙌

Dr. Ken Thomas completed his 2-year term as the President of the Canadian Spine Society Canadian Spine Society. Under his leadership he has taken CSS to new heights. Dr. Thomas passes the torch to Dr. John Street who will be the new leader for the next two years

Congratulations to Newton Cho our superstar spine fellow on winning the “Best Poster Presentation Award” at the AO Spine North America Fellows Forum this past weekend in Banff, Alberta!