Dr Stefan Parent, MD, PhD, Principal Investigator, is a Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon and a Clinician-Scientist with a focus on spinal deformities. He holds several grants either as principal investigator or co-investigator in the fields of scoliosis progression, growth modulation of the spine and chest cage and in the development of various other animal models. He recently received a Canada Foundation for Innovation Leaders Opportunity Fund to establish a Pediatric Orthopedic Experimental Surgery Laboratory at the CHU Sainte-Justine. This laboratory was specifically created to develop animal models of growth modulation of the spine.
As part of the Portraits of researchers series from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, discover the portrait of Dr. Stefan Parent (French only).
An award to Stefan Parent by the Scoliosis Research Society
Spinal deformities
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