Fellows’ Day 2017

groupfellows — From left: Dr. Ghusn Alsiediri, Dr. Khalid Bajunaid, Dr. Rolando Del Maestro, Dr. Fahad Alotaibi, Robin Sawaya, Mina Khan

Present group working in the lab. From left: Dr. Ghusn Alsiediri, Dr. Rolando Del Maestro, Mina Khan, Robin Sawaya

June 11th, 2017

This year’s annual Fellows’ Day was held on June 9^th, 2017 at the Grandpre Communications’ Centre at McGill with great success.

The day consisted of thesis presentations given by graduate students in neurosurgery about spine, movement disorders, clinical applications, oncology and simulation.

Congratulations to graduate students Robin Sawaya and Ghusn Alsidieri on their presentations relating to their work at NeuroSim!

From left: Dr. Ghusn Alsiediri, Dr. Khalid Bajunaid, Dr. Rolando Del Maestro, Dr. Fahad Alotaibi, Robin Sawaya, Mina Khan

Dr. Del Maestro and his wife, Pam, with Dr. Brian Toyota

Dr. Brian Toyota, MD CM MSc FRCSC

Presentations were followed by a keynote speech from this year’s Feindel Lecturer, Dr. Brian Toyota, about technical innovations in glioma surgery. Dr. Toyota is the Head of the Division of Neurosurgery at the University of British Columbia and is the first and only neurosurgeon in Canada to employ robotic laser surgery for the removal of brain.tumours that

are traditionally inoperable. You can read more about Dr. Toyota here.