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Ann M. Parr, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, US

Dr. Parr received both her undergraduate degree and medical degree from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. She then completed her PhD studies in neural stem cell transplantation for spinal cord injury during neurosurgical residency at the University of Toronto. During this time she was affiliated with the Institute of Medical Science and the Clinical Investigator Program. She then received further training as the Cahill Fellow in Complex Spine at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL. After her training Dr. Parr came to University of Minnesota where she is currently an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs in the Department of Neurosurgery, as well as the Medical Director for Spine and Neurotrauma, and Principal Investigator of the Parr Lab at the Stem Cell Institute. She is Past-Chair of both the Minnesota Neurosurgical Society and the Section for Women in Neurosurgery, a Joint Section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.

Dr. Parr is a Board Certified Neurosurgeon and interested in finding new therapies for spinal cord injury. She is also a faculty member in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience and the Stem Cell Institute. Dr. Parr's research centers on transplanting neural stem cells grown from a patient's own skin into the injured spinal cord. She has an active NIH funded translational research laboratory, and is interested in examining mechanisms of functional recovery using techniques such as histology and immunohistochemistry, cell culture, optogenetics and animal modeling.

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