Professor
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, CA
Dr. Brian Kwon is a Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at UBC, the Canada Research Chair in Spinal Cord Injury, and holds the Dvorak Chair in Spine Trauma. He is an attending spine surgeon at Vancouver General Hospital, and serves as the Director of Research for the Vancouver Spine Program. As a surgeon-scientist and the current Chair of the AO Spine Knowledge Forum in Spinal Cord Injury, he is particularly interested in the bi-directional process of translational research for spinal cord injury, and he leads a research program focused on translation at the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries. He has worked extensively on establishing biomarkers of human SCI to understand the biology of human injury and to better stratify injury severity and improve the prediction of neurologic outcome. Dr. Kwon has led the development of a novel large animal model of SCI and is utilizing this for both bench-to-bedside and bedside-back-to-bench translational studies. Dr. Kwon has authored more than 290 scientific research manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and has written over 35 textbook chapters. Dr. Kwon was recognized with the inaugural $50,000 Tator-Turnbull Award in 2019 for the most outstanding SCI paper published by a Canadian investigator in the previous two years. In 2020, for his significant contributions to the SCI community, Dr. Kwon was honoured by the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation with their inaugural Visionary Prize and an unrestricted cash prize of US$1million.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Van Wagenen Lecture: Spinal Cord Injury
Sunday, May 5, 2024
4:42 PM – 4:56 PM CT