Biography

Dr. Ashish Kumar is a neurosurgeon at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (SHSC) and is cross-appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He joined the Division of Neurosurgery as a surgeon-educator, and his field of expertise is in cerebrovascular and endovascular surgery with open cerebrovascular training at Fujita Health University, Nagoya, Japan, and fellowships at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is also the fellowship director for the Advanced Micro-neurosurgery fellowship at SHSC. In 2022, Ashish graduated from 2 years long Education Scholars Program (ESP). He continued his interest in Health professions education (HPE) as he joined the Master’s program at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Recently, Dr. Kumar was appointed as Site Director at Sunnybrook for the Neurosurgery residency program. He is the Fellowship director for “ Advanced Microneurosurgery Fellowship “ at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He was also appointed as Education Committee Chair at Fujita Health University Alumni Association, which is closely associated with the Asian Congress of Neurological Surgeons (ACNS), where he also serves as an Executive Committee Member.

Description

As an advocate for Toronto Neurosurgery, he desires to develop strong educational interactions and opportunities between North American and Asian Neurosurgical Societies. As a teacher, his main interest is to increase exposure and foster the interest of neurosurgical residents to endovascular neurosurgery through the development of a core curriculum in the specialty, simulation protocols for dual training and optimal cerebrovascular exposure during neurosurgical residency.