Calgary Spine Program

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!

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 [email protected] 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.

Big Calgary Spine Program contingent at the @spinecanada meeting. Great company, science, and networking.

Superstar clinical fellows Dr. Ru Raj and Dr. Newton Cho giving their podium talks at the @spinecanada meeting.

Dr. Fred Nicholls debating fuse or not fuse for adjacent segment disease @spinecanada meeting. Big Calgary spine presence at this meeting.

Dr. Brad Jacobs debates subacute weakness in single cervical nerve root - operate or not @spinecanada Conference in Quebec.

Congratulations @MichaelYangMD, 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 @yyc_health for making this possible. @DCNSNeuro @cgyneurosurg

Calgary Spine Endoscopy Team visits Elliquence lab in NYC 🇺🇸. Our spine endoscopy program officially starts next week! Stay tuned for more exciting news. @yyc_health @UCalgaryMed @cgyneurosurg @MichaelYangMD @DCNSNeuro

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!

Great hands-on cadaver spine and peripheral nerve surgery course by @MichaelYangMD and the @CalgarySpine team. Covered approaches to nearly every part of the nervous system south of the occiput!

Congratulations to our superstar spine fellow @newton_cho on his recent publication in @NatureMedicine! Novel brain target improves walking after SCI!