Faculty: Neurosurgery

Ramesh L. Sahjpaul MD, MSc, FRCSC

Clinical Associate Professor
Active Staff: Lions Gate Hospital

North Vancouver
Hospital Authority: Vancouver Coastal Health

Clinical office address:
405-125 East 13th, Ave.
North Vancouver, BC
V7L 2L3

Phone: 604.904.7467

Fax: 604.904.7462

Email: Ramesh.Sahjpaul@vch.ca

Special Interests

• Spinal Neurosurgery
• Spinal Instrumentation
• Minimally Invasive Surgery
• Image Guided Surgery
• Clinical Epidemiology
• Epilepsy Surgery and Brain Mapping

Background

Dr Ramesh Sahjpaul is a graduate of The University of Toronto Medical School, and after post-graduate training at Queens University, completed his neurosurgical residency at The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. After a year of fellowship training in Epilepsy Surgery he practiced at UWO focusing on epilepsy surgery. He then undertook additional fellowship training in Spine at the University of Tennessee, and was subsequently recruited to the Combined Neurosurgical and Orthopedic Spine Program at UBC where he dedicated his practice to the management of intra and extradural spinal pathology.

He currently practices neurosurgery at Lions Gate Hospital where he has introduced complex spinal neurosurgery and minimal access techniques in addition to the technique of awake craniotomy . He has a Masters degree in Clinical Epidemiology and is actively involved in clinical research. He is also an associate member of ICORD (International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries).