Sep 5, 2023 MUHC Medical Grand Rounds by Dr. Chan Gao

MUHC Medical Grand Rounds Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, 12h00-13h00
Title: Heterotopic Ossification: from Bench to Bedside

Speaker:
Dr. Chan Gao

Educational objectives:
-Current treatment options for heterotopic ossification.
-Updates on the knowledge of pathogenic mechanism of heterotopic ossification.

Biosketch of Dr. Chan Gao:
Dr Gao is an Assistant Profession in the department of Medicine at McGill University and an academic physiatrist at McGill University Health Center. He completed his MD at Peking University (Beijing, China) in 2003 and PhD at McGill University (Montreal, QC) in 2014. As a PhD candidate at McGill University, he acquired extensive knowledge and expertise in skeletal phenotyping of rodents which required development of quantitative micro-CT imaging and its correlation with histologic analyses. He did residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN) from 2015-2019 and fellowship in Primary Care Sports Medicine and Interventional Spine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, NY) from 2019-2020. He joined McGill in June 2020 and has established a pre-clinical research program in spinal cord injury-associated heterotopic ossification and neuropathic pain. Dr Gao’s research is currently supported by FRQ-S, AO Spine, and North America Spine Society.

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