Calgary Spine Program

New Publication 🚨! Endoscopic Spine Surgery: A Scoping Review of the Literature Endoscopic spine surgery is expanding quickly. In this study, we map the current evidence landscape and highlights important gaps that future research should address. doi.org/10.1177/219256…

We recently hosted our 18th Annual Peripheral Nerve and Spine Surgery Cadaver Course. We had residents attend from 🇲🇽, Israel, and across 🇨🇦! Thank you to all the Faculty members, fellows, and @MichaelYangMD for directing this course.

Terry was one of the first patient to receive endoscopic spine surgery in Calgary. It is patients like him that drive us to push the boundaries of spine care. Watch his story. Support @yyc_health! @CalgarySpine youtu.be/UKmXa4xrClU?si…

We are pushing the boundaries of endoscopic spine surgery here in Calgary!

We hosted the Calgary Spine Program Holiday Party this past weekend. It was a great opportunity to celebrate our successes this past year. We are so grateful to work with such amazing people.

Dr. Vivien Chan, Pediatric NeuroSpine Surgeon of the Calgary Spine Program gave a keynote talk titled "Cracks in the Pars: Insights into Pediatric Spondylosis" at the 53rd Annual Paediatric Orthopaedic Seminar and Townsend Lecture. @UofCr4kids @DCNSNeuro

Kicking off the academic year with a social gathering with our trainees, nurses, and Faculty. We welcomed Dr. Jeremie Larouche to the Calgary family and wished Dr. Brad Jacobs all the best in Vancouver.

Excited to be presenting at the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Annual Meeting! I’ll be sharing insights on building and launching an endoscopic spine surgery program. Join us at the premier global conference in minimally invasive spine surgery — register today! 🌍

We had the pleasure of hosting all first year neurosurgery residents from across Canada for the 14th Annual Canadian Neurosurgery Rookie Camp. A huge thank you to our dedicated faculty, residents, sponsors, and support teams who made this event possible. @uoftmedicine

Excited to share my promotion to Clinical Associate Professor @UCalgary and @CalgarySpine! This past 2.5 years in academic medicine has been deeply rewarding. Grateful to my colleagues, mentors, and patients who’ve supported me on this path in #spinesurgery, #endoscopy & #ERAS.

Welcome our new spine fellows Drs. Heidi Chan, Chloe Cadieux, Michael Mulcahy and Taryn Ludwig! We are going to have incredible year!

Calgary @yycneurosurgery residents polishing their endoscopic spine skills at our synthetic cadaver lab during their academic half day. 🙌 @CalgarySpine @DCNSNeuro @UCalgaryMed @ca_msign

We celebrated the graduation of our 4 amazing clinical spine fellows: Drs. Newton Cho @newton_cho, Chien Yew Kow, Drew Mulhall, and Ru Raj. It’s been an honour and privilege to see you all grow into the surgeon you are today!

How do you facilitate the resection of an intradural component of a nerve sheath tumour? Valsalva manoeuvre to 40cmH20, using CSF pressure to "pop" out the tumour. Ultrasound shows complete resection of intradural component.

Had a great time presenting on Spinal Endoscopy at the @CNSFNeuroLinks Conference #CNSF2025 in beautiful Ottawa 🇨🇦. The interest around spinal endoscopy in Canada was unparalleled!

We are hiring again! We are looking for a research coordinator to join our team. Please reach out to Dr. Evaniew at nathan.evaniew@ucalgary.ca if interested! Please see job posting for details: calgaryspine.ca/about/careers

Congratulations to @newton_cho our superstar spine fellow on winning the “Best Poster Presentation Award” at the @AOSpineNA Fellows Forum this past weekend in Banff, Alberta!

Dr. Ken Thomas completed his 2-year term as the President of the Canadian Spine Society @spinecanada. 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

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

Congratulations to Dr. Ru Raj, our clinical fellow on winning the Best Fellows Abstract at the @spinecanada meeting. 🎉🙌🙌 His project on #ERAS program in Spinal Surgery was supervised by @MichaelYangMD.