A graduate of Dalhousie University Medical School, Dr. Spears entered the Neurosurgery Training Program at the University of Toronto in 1998. Julian became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2004. Following residency, Dr. Spears completed a 2 year fellowship in Endovascular Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto. During his training, Julian undertook graduate studies in Clinical Epidemiology and successfully obtained his Masters of Science degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2006. Dr. Spears became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 2008. Dr. Spears holds a Phase I Clinician-Scientist Award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario to pursue clinical trials in cerebrovascular disease. Dr. Spears is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Neurosurgery and Department of Medical Imaging at St. Michael’s Hospital. Dr. Spears is the Co-Director of the Neurovascular Program at St. Michael’s Hospital and an Adjunct Scientist in the Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute.

Clinical Focus: Brain Aneurysms, Arteriovenous Malformations, Endovascular Surgery, Carotid Endarterectomy and Stenting Cerebrovascular disease, Brain and Spinal Tumors

Academic Focus: Clinical epidemiology - Harvard School of Public Health, Cerebrovascular disease, Cerebral Aneurysms, Arteriovenous Malformations

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Publications:
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Julian Spears, Karel G. TerBrugge, Mona Moosavian, Walter Montanera, Robert A. Willinsky, M. Christopher Wallace and Michael Tymianski. A Discriminative Prediction Model of Neurological Outcome for Patients Undergoing Surgery of Brain Arteriovenous Malformations. Stroke 2006;37;1457-1464; originally published online May 11, 2006.