Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Honoree
2018
Associate Professor Neurosurgery
Queen’s University
Dr. Douglas James (DJ) Cook is a cerebrovascular neurosurgeon and neuroscientist at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Cook grew up in Lindsay, Ontario on a family beef farm where he developed a keen interest in biology that evolved into an interest in neuroscience. Cook was initially trained at the University of Guelph in Biology. This was followed by medical school, neurosurgery residency and a PhD in neuroscience at the University of Toronto where he honed a focus on stroke and cerebrovascular disease. He went on to obtain a fellowship in cerebrovascular and skull base surgery as well as additional training at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Dr. Cook returned to Canada to found the Translational Stroke Research Program at Queen’s University in 2013 and has focused on research topics including stroke therapy discovery and translation to clinical trials, mechanisms of stroke recovery and the characterization of minor traumatic brain injury and the understanding of neurological mechanisms of recovery from sport related brain injury. In his clinical practice Dr. Cook has pioneered the use of minimally invasive brain surgery techniques to improve outcomes for patients with cerebrovascular pathology and brain tumours. Dr. Cook and his wife Rebecca, along with their three children Douglas, Elise and Jack, live at Otter Creek Farms in Kingston, a wagyu beef farming operation that the Cook family established upon their move from California to Kingston.
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