Spine Diploma Online Course

Jeremie Larouche

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Division of Orthopaedic Surgery & Spine Surgery
University of Toronto
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Jeremie Larouche is an assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Toronto. He is the associate program director for the residency program as well as the fellowship director for Sunnybrook’s division of spine surgery. A passionate educator, he is always looking for ways to improve how surgery is taught. Dr Larouche is also an executive member of the Canadian Spine Society and an Associate member of the AO Spine Knowledge Forum Tumor. His research interests focus on the use of technology to improve resident knowledge and skill acquisition.

Reuben Soh

Associate Professor
Senior Consultant, Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery
Singapore General Hospital
AO Spine Chairperson (East Asia)
Honorary Secretary – Singapore Spine Society

Associate Professor Reuben Soh is the Director of Spine surgery at Singapore General Hospital. An award-winning educator, he enjoys teaching at various levels from undergraduates to residents. He has interests in adult and paediatric deformities of the spine, complex reconstruction utilising minimally invasive spine surgery.
He is the regional Faculty of AO spine and serves as the East Asia Council Chairman. Online, he is a faculty of the European Spine Diploma Ecc-elearning platform as well as the society of minimally invasive spine surgery (SMISS-AP). He believes in continually inspiring his peers and juniors to excel in clinical outcome and in clinical teaching.

Dr Marcin Czyz, MD PhD

Consultant Spine Neurosurgeon
Clinical Lead – Spine Surgery
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Marcin Czyz is a highly experienced Spine Surgeon and a key member of the eccElearning Spine Surgery Education Programme faculty.
The Spine Surgery Education Programme contains 180 Spine Surgery Lectures, and contains Specialist Certificates and the full Postgraduate Diploma in Spine Surgery.
The eccElearning Spine Surgery Faculty is made up of over 140 expert spine surgeons and educators. They have collectively supported the development of the world’s first

Mr Roozbeh Shafafy

Consultant Spinal Surgeon (Adult & Paediatric Spine)

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH), Stanmore, London, United Kingdom

Parag Sayal

Consultant Neurosurgeon (Spinal Surgery & Skull Base Surgery)
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Queen Square, London, UK

Mr Parag Sayal is a Consultant Neurosurgeon with a specialist interest In Complex spinal surgery, Endoscopic Skull base surgery and minimally invasive procedures.
He is a Consultant at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen Square, London, part of the University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust. He provides private consultations and services at The Wellington Hospital & also at the Queen Square Private Consulting rooms.

Mr Oliver Stokes
Consultant Spinal Surgeon
Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Trust

Mr Stokes trained at University College London Medical School, graduating in 2001. He completed his Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery higher surgical training in London.
Prior to his appointment as a Consultant Spinal Surgeon at the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust he undertook 3 spine fellowships including complex spine fellowships at the University of Hong Kong and at the Centre for Spinal Studies and Surgery, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham.