Tamir Ailon, MD MPH FRCSC
Ryojo Akagami, MD BSc MHSc FRCSC
Oliver Ayling, MD MSc FRCSC
Richard D. Brownlee, BSc MSc MD FRCSC
Mark Bigder, BA, HBK, MD, MPH, FRCSC, FAANS
Reena Baweja, BSc, MD, FRCSC
Navjot Chaudhary, BSc MD FRCSC
Michael Craig, MD, FRCSC
Nicolas Dea, MD, MSc, FRCSC
Charlotte Dandurand MD, MSc, FRCSC
Charles Dong, BSc MMed PhD
Newton Cho, MD PhD FRCSC
Felix A. Durity, MD FRCSC
David J. Fairholm, MD FRCSC
Mostafa Fatehi, MD MSc FRCSC
Ian G. Fleetwood, MD FRCSC
Evan Frangou, MD FRCSC
Peter Gooderham, MD FRCSC
Preneshlin Govender MB.Ch.B MD FRCSC
Shahid M. Gul, M.D. FRCSC
Faizal Haji, MD PhD FRCSC
Charles Haw, MD MSc FRCSC
Stephen Hentschel BSc. MD FRCSC
Navraj S. Heran, BSc MD FRCSC
Christopher R. Honey, MD DPhil FRCSC FACS
C. Michael Honey, MD, FRCSC
Zurab Ivanishvili, BSc MD FRCSC
Zulfiqar Kaderali, BSc, MD, MPH, FRCSC, FAANS
Ryan Janicki, MD FRCSC
Stefan Lang, MD, PhD FRCSC
Andrew Lee, MD FRCSC
Hubert Lee, MD MSc FRCSC
Serge Makarenko, MD FRCSC
Mark Z. Matishak, BSc MD FRCSC
Patrick McDonald, MD MHSc FRCSC
Danny Mendelsohn, MD MSc FRCSC
Michael A. Nikolakis, MD FRCSC
David A Omahen, MD FRCSC
Scott J. Paquette, BScH BMedSC MEd MD FRCSC
Gary J. Redekop, BSc MD MSc FRCSC
Richard Reid, MD FRCSC
Ramesh L. Sahjpaul, MD MSc FRCSC
Ash Singhal, BSc MSc MD FRCSC
Paul Steinbok, BSc MB BS FRCSC
John C. L. Sun, BSc MD FRCSC
Mandeep Tamber, MD, PhD, FRCSC
Wolfram Tetzlaff, MD (Essen), PhD
Michael Tso, MD PhD FRCSC
Daniel T. Warren, BSc MD MSc FRCSC
Thomas J. Zwimpfer, MD PhD FRCSC

Scott J. Paquette, BScH BMedSC MEd MD FRCSC

  • Clinical Professor, Neurosurgery
  • Associate member, Department of Orthopedic
  • Associate member, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  • UBC Spine Fellowship Co-Director
  • Active Staff, Vancouver General Hospital

Contact

Blusson Spinal Cord Centre
818 West 10th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V5Z 1L7

Phone: 604.875.5562
Fax: 604.875.8223

Summary

Dr. Scott Paquette completed his neurosurgery training in Ottawa prior to a fellowship overseas in Melbourne, Australia. He returned to Canada in 2004 to join the Division of Spine at Vancouver General Hospital. His UBC appointment is within the Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery with cross appointment with the Department of Orthopedics and holds an associate membership with the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Dr. Paquette has a particular interest in surgical education. He holds a Masters of Adult Education and sits on the resident education committees for both Neurosurgery and Orthopaedics at UBC and is a co-director of the Vancouver Spine Fellowship program and chair of the UBC Neurosurgery competency committee. Dr. Paquette is also involved in resident and fellow education at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as a member of the specialty committee for Neurosurgery and chairs the Spine Fellowship AFC program.  Dr. Paquette is the past president of the Canadian Spine Society.

In additional to his work in Vancouver General Hospital, Dr. Paquette is an active member of the St. Paul’s Hospital Neuromodulation Pain Program where he and his colleges surgically treat patients with refractory neuropathic pain and spinal pain with implanted spinal cord stimulators and nerve root stimulators.

His practice is confined to adult spine surgery, with special interest in degenerative disease, trauma, intradural pathology, spasticity, and the surgical treatment of neuropathic pain. He operates out of Vancouver General Hospital and St. Paul’s Hospital.

Clinical Interests

  1. Resection of intra and extra-dural spinal tumors
  2. Reconstruction of injured spine
  3. Surgical treatment of spinal pain and spasticity
  4. Surgical Education

Research Interests

  1. Spinal tumors
  2. Spinal Cord Injuries

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