Meet the Team

We have teams in Calgary and Edmonton that are able to see patients for the MRgFUS program.

Dr Zelma Kiss

Neurosurgeon

Location: Calgary, Alberta

Dr. Kiss is a functional & stereotactic neurosurgeon treating movement disorders, psychiatric conditions, epilepsy and pain, including trigeminal neuralgia and headache. She directs the Neuromodulation Program for Alberta Health Services Calgary, and is co-director of the MR Guided Focused Ultrasound Program

Dr Davide Martino

Movement Disorder Neurologist

Location: Calgary, Alberta

Dr. Davide Martino is a neurologist and the director of the Movement Disorders Program at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary.

Dr Beverly Adams

Psychiatrist

Location: Calgary, Alberta

Dr. Beverly Adams is Senior Associate Dean, Education, in the Cumming School of Medicine. She is an Associate Professor and was the Head of the Department of Psychiatry from 2012 to 2018. Her research interest is in OCD and brain imaging.

Dr Bruce Pike

Head of Image Science Division

Location: Calgary, Alberta

Dr Bruce Pike is the Professor and Head of the Image Science Division of the Radiology Department and a Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Calgary where he is also the CAIP Chair in Healthy Brain Aging. He is Senior Editor of the journal NeuroImage, a Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and serves on the Advisory Boards for many international programs and organizations.

Dr Samuel Pichardo

PhD in Imaging and Systems

Location: Calgary, Alberta

Dr. Pichardo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology and Clinical Neurosciences. His research concentrates on Focused Ultrasound (FUS) as a non-invasive tool for treating neurological diseases and development of new technique to improve MRI for image-guided interventions.

Dr Laura Curiel

PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Electronic Systems

Location: Calgary, Alberta

Dr Curiel is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Centre for Bioengineering Research and Education. Her research interests include biomedical device design for research and therapeutic purposes, in particular on high intensity focused ultrasound and its imaging guidance.

Dr Fang Ba

Movement Disorder Neurologist

Location: Edmonton, Alberta

Dr. Ba is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Neurology, University of Alberta and the education coordinator for movement disorders program/rotations. She received her MD from University of Calgary in 2007 and her PhD degree in Physiology/Neuroscience from University of Alberta. She completed her residency and CIHR fellowship in Movement Disorders at the University of Alberta and pursued further training in deep brain stimulation (DBS) at the University of Florida.

Dr Tejas Sankar

Neurosurgeon

Location: Edmonton, Alberta

Dr. Tejas Sankar is a Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgeon, Associate Professor and Research Director in the Division of Neurosurgery at the University of Alberta. He is the Surgical Lead for the DBS program and his clinical interests include neuromodulation for movement disorders, severe psychiatric illness and chronic pain. His Functional Neurosurgery Research Laboratory focuses on the use of multimodal imaging and neurophysiological techniques in order to study the impact of brain stimulation on plasticity in the nervous system.

Dr Fady Girgis

Neurosurgeon

Location: Calgary, Alberta

Dr. Girgis is a neurosurgeon subspecializing in deep brain stimulation, epilepsy, complex facial pain, brain tumors, and peripheral nerve surgery. As a functional neurosurgeon, he has extensive experience and expertise in neuromodulation, brain mapping, and awake brain surgery. Additionally, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary teaching in the medical school as well as in the residency training programs.

Dr Camila Aquino

Movement Disorder Neurologist

Location: Calgary, Alberta

Dr. Aquino is a neurologist with fellowship training in Movement Disorders and Deep Brain Stimulation. She is an assistant professor of neurology at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and a member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute. Her research interests include neuromodulation strategies and clinical trials in Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders.