Active Staff, Vancouver General Hospital
Contact
6100 – 818 West 10th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9
Phone: 604-875-4746
Summary
Dr. Newton Cho is a surgeon-scientist with the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD) at Vancouver General Hospital.
He completed his neurosurgical residency training at the University of Toronto in 2023. During his residency training, he also completed a PhD with Grégoire Courtine at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) examining neuromodulation to improve walking after spinal cord injury in 2021. His graduate work identified a novel target of deep brain stimulation that improves gait after chronic traumatic spinal cord injury.
He then went on to complete a stereotactic/functional neurosurgery fellowship at the University of Toronto in 2024. This was followed by a combined neurosurgery/orthopaedic spine surgery fellowship at the University of Calgary in 2025.
He has received a number of recognitions for his clinical and research work including the Warren Ho Memorial Scholarship by the University of Toronto, Biaggi de Blasys Foundation Award for best doctoral thesis, and the Science & PINS Prize for Neuromodulation.
His clinical interests include adult spine trauma, degenerative disease, tumours, and infections. His research program is very interested in the intersection of functional neurosurgery and spine surgery to improve gait after injury and neurodegenerative disease. He runs a basic science laboratory understanding brain and spinal cord circuits for gait with the aim to develop novel neuromodulatory therapies to improve walking after injury and disease.
Clinical Interests
Spine Surgery
Spinal cord injury
Neuromodulation
PubMed link for publications