Brian Kwon, MD, FRCSC, PhD

Management of acute SCI

Primary Affiliations:

• Professor and Canada Research Chair in Spinal Cord Injury
• Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia
• International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, University of British Columbia

Interests:

Dr. Kwon is particularly interested in the bi-directional process of translational research for spinal cord injury. He has worked extensively on establishing biomarkers of human SCI to facilitate human trials and on the development of preclinical models for novel therapeutic strategies. He has also led initiatives to establish a framework for how promising therapies for SCI should be evaluated in the laboratory setting prior to translation into human patients.

Webpage:

http://icord.org/researchers/dr-brian-kwon/