Professor, Neurosurgeon, Scientist, McMaster University

Dr. Sheila Singh is professor of surgery and biochemistry, senior pediatric neurosurgeon at McMaster Children’s Hospital, Division Head of Neurosurgery at Hamilton Health Sciences, and director of the Centre for Discovery in Cancer Research (CDCR) at McMaster University. She holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Human Brain Cancer Stem Cell Biology, and is the founding Director of the McMaster Surgeon Scientist Program. Her PhD thesis described the first identification of a population of cancer stem cells that exclusively drive the formation of brain tumors. Dr. Singh’s lab applies a ...

Dr. Rutka is a neurosurgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, and is the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He is the co-founder of the Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre at SickKids. Professor Rutka has been awarded numerous awards, including the Medical Research Council of Canada Career Scientist Award (1999); the Grass Award (Society of Neurological Surgeons, 2004); and the Honoured Guest Award from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (2009). He was President of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons in 2011, and the American ...

Internationally recognized surgeon, scientist and educator. He is the foremost neurosurgical expert on peripheral nerve disorders. His research has produced groundbreaking insights on the repair of peripheral nerve injury, while his clinical program provides state-of-the-art patient-centric multidisciplinary care. He has led international organizations devoted to the advancement of nerve surgery, and he is a member of the highly exclusive Academy of Neurological Surgery. He lectures extensively throughout North America and internationally and serves on the editorial board of the top two ...

Dr. Anthony Lang is an international leader in the neuroscience field of movement disorders. His broad-based, highly cited, transformative award-winning research contributions span the fields of clinical evaluation, genetics, epidemiology, electrophysiology, neuroimaging, neuropathology, neuropharmacology, rating scales, clinical trials and functional neurosurgery. His work has been extremely influential on all aspects of current international standards of medical and surgical care for Parkinson’s disease, has helped define and understand previously unrecognized or poorly characterized ...