Fellowship Title: | City Wide Neuromuscular Fellowship |
Division: | Neurology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical |
Supervisor: | Aaron Izenberg |
Duration: | 1 year |
Application Open and Close Date: | 1 year prior to the start date |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1 |
Number of position(s) per year: | 1 |
Description: | The UofT city-wide neuromuscular fellowship involves intensive training in clinical neuromuscular medicine and electrodiagnostics (EMG and Nerver Conduction Studies). Fellows will rotate through the 3 major academic adult neuromuscular centres in Toronto, as well as the Hospital for Sick Children (HSC). There will also be a set curriculum delivered in regular didactic teaching sessions occurring every 2 weeks throughout the year. This program is designed to prepare individuals for a career in neuromuscular medicine in an academic or community setting. |
Contact Name: | Aaron Izenberg |
Role: | Fellowship Director |
Telephone: | 416-480-4475 |
E-mail: | aaron.izenberg@sunnybrook.ca |
Fellowship Title: | Cognitive - Behavioral Neurology |
Division: | Neurology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical |
Supervisor: | Dr. Carmela Tartaglia |
Duration: | 1-2 years |
Application Open and Close Date: | 1 Year prior to start of fellowship |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1 |
Number of position(s) per year: | Dependant on funding |
Description: | The clinical-research fellowship in Cognitive - Behavioral Neurology is a 1-2 year fellowship program at University Health Network memory Clinic and the Division of Neurology, University of Toronto. This fellowship offers clinical and research training in the Cognitive - Behavioral Neurology of neurodegenerative diseases. The research component takes place at the Tanz Center for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto. |
Contact Name: | Carmela Tartaglia |
Role: | Supervisor |
Telephone: | 416-603-5483 |
E-mail: | Carmela.tartaglia@uhn.ca |
Mailing Address: | Toronto Western Hospital 399 Bathurst St. WW 5-449 Toronto, ON M5T 2S8 |
Fellowship Title: | Cognitive Neurology and Movement Disorders - SHSC |
Division: | Neurology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical |
Supervisor: | Drs. Mario Masellis, Sandra E. Black, Sara Mitchell, and Benjamin Lam |
Duration: | 1 to 2 years |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1 |
Number of position(s) per year: | 1-2 |
Description: | Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, an academic teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, is offering a one to two year fellowship position in Cognitive & Movement Disorders Neurology.
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Contact Name: | Dr. Mario Masellis |
Role: | Supervisor |
E-mail: | mario.masellis@sunnybrook.ca |
Fellowship Title: | Concussion |
Division: | Neurology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical |
Supervisor: | Dr. Carmela Tartaglia |
Duration: | 1-2 Years |
Application Open and Close Date: | 1 Year prior to start of fellowship |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1 |
Number of position(s) per year: | 1-2 depending on funding |
Description: | The clinical-research Fellowship in concussion is a 1-2 year fellowship program that is open to applicants who have completed residency training in Neurology, Neurosurgery or Physical medicine and rehabilitation or are physicians holding a sports medicine certificate and wish to pursue further training in the clinical aspects and research of concussion. This is the first fellowship in sports concussion in Canada. |
Contact Name: | Dr. Carmela Tartaglia |
Role: | Supervisor |
E-mail: | carmela.tartaglia@uhn.ca |
Mailing Address: | Toronto Western Hospital West Wing 5-449 399 Bathurst St. Toronto, ON M5T 2S8 |
Fellowship Title: | Electromyography and Neuromuscular Disorders |
Division: | Neurology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical |
Supervisor: | Dr. Vera Bril |
Duration: | 1-2 Years |
Application Open and Close Date: | 1 Year prior to start of fellowship |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1 |
Number of position(s) per year: | 1-3 depending on funding |
Description: | For qualified neurology trainees, there are fellowship opportunities available at the University Health Network (Toronto General and Western sites). The primary fellowship supervisor is Dr. Vera Bril, and fellows may be accepted for 1- or 2-year programs. Fellows who wish to undertake a significant research project or concurrently complete a Master's degree are expected to apply for a 2-year fellowship program. The fellows will receive broad training in neuromuscular disease include disorders of nerve, muscle, and neuromuscular junction. Fellows may receive advanced training in advanced EMG techniques, percutaneous muscle biopsy, or peripheral nerve imaging; depending on their skill level. A variety of research opportunities are available. There are monthly case rounds, as well as monthly journal club, and combined rounds with neuropathology to review muscle biopsy specimens. |
Contact Name: | Dr. Vera Bril |
Role: | Fellowship Coordinator |
Telephone: | 416.340.3315 |
E-mail: | vera.bril@utoronto.ca |
Fellowship Title: | Epilepsy |
Division: | Neurology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical |
Supervisor: | Dr. Esther Bui |
Duration: | 1-2 years |
Application Open and Close Date: | 1 Year prior to start of fellowship |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1 |
Number of position(s) per year: | 1-2 depending on funding |
Description: | The Epilepsy Fellowship Program at Toronto Western Hospital is a well-established program that offers extensive training in all aspects of epilepsy. Fellows will attend clinics with a variety of epilepsy cases, including some of the most pharmacoresistant. Fellows will also receive EEG training, with completion of the Canadian EEG exam expected. Our comprehensive epilepsy program includes neurologists, clinical neurophysiologists, neuropsychiatrists, neuropsychologists, neurosurgeons, social worker, nurses and dietitians. The Program’s strengths include a 10-bed epilepsy monitoring unit, epilepsy genetics clinic, neuromodulation (VNS and DBS), transition from paediatric to adult services, women with epilepsy and epilepsy in pregnancy clinics, specialized ketogenic diet clinic, first seizure clinic and clinical neurophysiology. Fellows will participate in weekly multidisciplinary rounds to discuss patients’ surgical candidacy, weekly EEG teaching rounds, monthly journal club and research rounds. There is a large research program and fellows are encouraged to participate in clinical or pre-clinical research. Research fields include animal models, EEG and MEG, clinical genetics, and pregnancy in epilepsy. Our current faculty members include Dr. Don Weaver, Dr. Richard Wennberg, Dr. Peter Tai, Dr. Aylin Reid, Dr. Martin Del Campo, Dr. Peter Carlen, Dr. Esther Bui, Dr. Eduard Bercovici, and Dr. Danielle Andrade. Term: 1 year with a focus on epilepsy clinics and EEG interpretation. Renewal for a second year of fellowship is an option, depending on availability of funding. Second year will be focused on epilepsy surgery cases and EEG interpretation in the epilepsy monitoring unit, including both scalp and intracranial monitoring. |
Contact Name: | Dr. Esther Bui |
Role: | Fellowship Supervisor |
E-mail: | esther.bui@uhn.ca |
Fellowship Title: | Gord Downie Brain Tumour Fellowship |
Division: | Neurology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical |
Supervisor: | Dr. James Perry |
Duration: | 1 year |
Application Open and Close Date: | June-September of the year before the projected start date |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1 of each year |
Number of position(s) per year: | 1 |
Description: | The Fellowship is open to individuals who have completed residency programs in neurology and medical oncology. Fellowship goals and objectives will be tailored to individual needs but, in general, this is a clinical Fellowship spent within a busy interdisciplinary CNS Oncology team with a research-embedded in practice framework. |
Contact Name: | Tatiana Brezden |
Role: | Program Coordinator |
Telephone: | 416-480-4766 |
E-mail: | tatiana.brezden@sunnybrook.ca |
Fellowship Title: | Headache Medicine |
Division: | Neurology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical |
Supervisor: | Dr. William Kingston |
Duration: | 1 year |
Application Open and Close Date: | Ongoing |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1 |
Number of position(s) per year: | 1-2 depending on funding |
Description: | A one-year clinical fellowship and headache medicine. The successful candidate will develop the skills required to manage a variety of complex headache diagnoses. The patient population at Sunnybrook includes a large proportion of cerebrovascular disease patients as well as the first dedicated Headache in pregnancy clinic in Canada. Upon completion the successful Canada will also be proficient at performing procedural treatments for headache such as botulinum toxin injections as well as cranial nerve blocks. |
Contact Name: | Dr. William Kingston |
Role: | Supervisor |
Telephone: | 416-480-6100x1961 Ext 2074 for personal office extension |
E-mail: | William.Kingston@sunnybrook.ca |
Fellowship Title: | Movement Disorders |
Division: | Neurology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical |
Supervisor: | Dr. Susan Fox |
Duration: | 2 Years (occasional 1 year) |
Application Open and Close Date: | 18 months prior to start of fellowship |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1st |
Number of position(s) per year: | 2-3 depending on funding |
Description: | The Movement Disorders Fellowship program at the Toronto Western Hospital is a well-established, popular program, which provides an extensive training in all aspects of clinical movement disorders, including surgical management of patients undergoing functional neurosurgery (see below) and neurophysiology of movement disorders (see below). The training involves attendance at clinics, with faculty members (Drs A Lang, Fox; Chen; Strafella; Marras, Slow; Kalia; Fasano and Munhoz) providing supervision and training. This is a busy unit with the opportunity to see broad and varied clinical cases. In addition there are weekly video-rounds and journal reviews, monthly neuropathology seminars and training in clinical trial design and methodology; as well as the opportunity to attend city wide postgraduate lectures. All fellows also have an opportunity to get training in toxin injections and DBS. There are excellent opportunities for both pre-clinical and clinical research and the fellows are encouraged to purse a research project. The unit collaborates with many world renowned researchers in neurogenetics, basic neuroscience, imaging and neurophysiology. Fellows will get the opportunity to do a rotation in the Tourette and Huntington clinics and all fellows will have the opportunity to spend time in our surgical program clinics. |
Contact Name: | Dr. Susan Fox |
Role: | Fellowship Coordinator |
E-mail: | Susan.Fox@uhnresearch.ca |
Fellowship Title: | Movement Disorders Surgical |
Division: | Neurology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical |
Supervisor: | Dr. Alfonso Fasano |
Duration: | 1-2 Years (Usually part of a 2 year clinical fellowship in Movement Disorders) |
Application Open and Close Date: | 1 Year prior to start of fellowship |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1 |
Number of position(s) per year: | 1-2 depending on funding |
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Contact Name: | Dr. Alfonso Fasano |
Role: | Supervisor |
E-mail: | alfonso.fasano@uhn.ca |