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    Nicolas Dea, MD, MSc

    University of British Columbia

    Nicolas Dea, MD, MSc, FRCSC
    Spine surgeon
    Head, Division of Spine Surgery
    Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
    Combined Neurosurgical and Orthopedic Spine Program
    Vancouver General Hospital
    University of British Columbia


    Dr. Dea is a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of British Columbia and is the Division Head of the combined orthopaedics and neurosurgery spine division at Vancouver General Hospital. He completed his MD program and his neurosurgical training in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and his spine surgery fellowship in Vancouver, BC. Dr. Dea completed his Masters in Health Economics, Policy and Management at the London School of Economics & Political Sciences in London, UK. He is on the Steering Committee of the AO Knowledge Forum: Tumor, an international multi-disciplinary panel of experts pursuing innovative research into spine oncology and is the co-PI of an international study dedicated to the primary tumors of the spine. He is the Vice-Chair of the Neurosurgery Examination Committee at the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada. He also sits on the executive board of the Canadian Spine Society, is a Steering Committee member of the Canadian Spine Outcomes and Research Network and is the co-Principle investigator of the Canadian Prospective Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy study.
    He was nominated within the top 20 spine specialist under 40 in North America by the North American Spine Society in 2020. He is the recipient of multiple national and international awards for his work in oncology and degenerative cervical myelopathy. He is a sought-after international guest speaker. He has authored more than 170 peer-reviewed publications and participated in many textbooks in the field of neurosurgery and spinal surgery.

    For more information regarding Dr Dea’s published research, click here.

    https://neurosurgery.med.ubc.ca/faculty-spotlight/nicolas-dea-md-msc-frcsc/

    https://spinecanada.org/

    Disclosure(s): ‘Stryker: Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing)
    Baxter: Consultant (Ongoing)
    Cerapedics Inc: Consultant (Ongoing)
    Johnson & Johnson MedTech: Consultant (Ongoing)
    Medtronic: Consultant (Ongoing)
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