Nir Lipsman

Nir Lipsman is a neurosurgeon and senior scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto.

He completed his medical degree at Queen’s University and neurosur  gical residency and PhD at the University of Toronto. Over the last 10 years, Dr. Lipsman has led several clinical trials of MR-guided focused ultrasound (FUS) in novel indications, including among the world’s first experience of ablative FUS in essential tremor, obsessive compulsive disorder and depression, as well as global-first trials of FUS-enhanced BBB opening in primary and secondary brain tumours, Alzheimer’s Disease, ALS and Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Lipsm  an has published over 170 peer-reviewed papers and textbook chapters, including in The Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine. He received the ISTU Early Career Investigator Award, the FUS Foundations International Ferenc Jolesz Award for Excellence, and was selected as one of Canada's Top 40 under 40. He is currently the co-director, along with Prof Kullervo Hynynen, of Sunnybrook’s Focused Ultrasound Centre of Excellence, and the Director of Sunnybrook’s Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation.