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Rajiv Midha, MD

Professor of Neurosurgery
University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Dr. Rajiv Midha was born in India in 1962 and immigrated to North America in 1972. He received his medical degree (1987), MSc, and neurosurgical training, all from the University of Toronto. He obtained clinical fellowships in peripheral nerve neurosurgery at St. Michaels’ Hospital in Toronto, and at Louisiana State University in New Orleans (under David Kline). Dr. Midha has published over 175 peer-reviewed articles, as well as in textbooks, with over 300 total publications, mostly related to peripheral nerve neurobiology and surgery. He has co-edited 4 textbooks on peripheral nerve surgery. Dr Midha is internationally recognized as an authority on peripheral nerve surgery, having given over 300 lectures world-wide, and serving as past president of the two foremost international societies related to this specialty, American Society for Peripheral Nerve and the Sunderland Society. In addition, he is the current section editor for peripheral nerve for Neurosurgery and World Neurosurgery, and former board member for Journal of Neurosurgery. Dr. Midha runs a CIHR peer-reviewed funded basic science laboratory investigating nerve regeneration. He has a special interest in peripheral nerve function, injury, repair, grafting, and regeneration. In the recent past, the main thrust of the research lab has been on developing novel cell based therapies to improve outcome from nerve repair.

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