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    W. Bradley Jacobs, MD, FRCSC

    Dr. Jacobs completed his neurosurgical residency at the University of Toronto and subsequently pursued an orthopaedic spinal surgery fellowship at the University of Washington/Harborview Medical Center in Seattle under the mentorship of Drs. Jens Chapman, Carlo Bellabarba and Rick Bransford. After his spinal surgery fellowship, Brad was recruited to the University of Calgary and Foothills Medical Centre in 2009 as a spinal surgeon member of the Division of Neurosurgery and the Calgary Spine Program. Brad currently holds the academic rank of Associate Professor at the University of Calgary and is also the Chairperson of the Calgary Spine Program, a combined orthopaedic/neurosurgical spinal surgery group consisting of 11 spinal surgeons, making it the largest single hospital site spinal surgery group in Canada.

    Brad has a large general spinal surgery clinical practice that includes his subspecialty interests in adult spinal deformity and spinal oncology. His research interests are focused on clinical care optimization for adult spinal deformity patients, as well as degenerative cervical myelopathy. Brad is also an devoted spinal surgery educator who has taught residents, fellows and surgeons on a wide array of spinal surgery topics at national and international venues and is currently overseeing the implementation of the Global Spine Diploma Curriculum for all AO Spine North America fellowships, encompassing 43 institutions and 121 spinal surgery fellows.

    Disclosure(s): Cerapedics: Consultant (), Research Grant (); Depuy-Synthes: Consultant (), Speaker/Honoraria (); Medtronic: Speaker/Honoraria (); Stryker: Consultant (), Speaker/Honoraria ()

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