Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Honoree
2020
Neurosurgeon and Scientist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Department of Surgery
University of Toronto
Nir is a neurosurgeon and scientist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He has developed several novel trials that are among the world’s first to use deep brain stimulation and focused ultrasound for difficult-to-treat neurological conditions, including essential tremor, obsessive-compulsive disorder, major depression, Alzheimer’s Disease, and glioblastoma multiforme. An in-demand speaker, he has published over 150 publications and textbook chapters, including in The Lancet, Nature Communications, and New England Journal of Medicine. He is currently the Director of Sunnybrook’s Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation, and the Clinical Director of Sunnybrook’s Focused Ultrasound Centre of Excellence.
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