Faculty Focus - May 2012  

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Michael Taylor, MD, PhD, FRCSC

Dr. Taylor completed medical school at the University of Western Ontario, followed by a neurosurgery residency and a PhD at the University of Toronto.  He then completed a clinical fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery and pediatric neurooncology and postdoctoral fellowships in brain tumor genomics and in functional genomics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.  In 2004, Dr. Taylor joined the staff at The Hospital for Sick Children as a faculty neurosurgeon in the Division of Neurosurgery and as a Principal Investigator in the Labatt Brain Tumor Research Centre.  He is currently appointed as an Associate Professor in the Departments of Surgery and of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto.