Rajiv Midha

Dr. Midha is presently Professor in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Head, Division of Neurosurgery at the University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services. 

Dr. Rajiv Midha was born in India in 1962 and immigrated to North America in 1972. He received his medical degree (1987), a MSc (under Susan Mackinnon’s supervision in 1991), and neurosurgical training (completed in 1995), all from the University of Toronto. He obtained clinical fellowships in peripheral nerve neurosurgery at St. Michaels’ Hospital in Toronto, and at Louisiana State University (under David Kline).

Dr. Midha has received a number of awards, grants, fellowships, and scholarships, from several Canadian granting and funding agencies including NSERC, MRC, Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, CIHR, and recently AHFMR. He has published over 75 peer reviewed articles, as well as in textbooks, with over 120 total publications, mostly related to peripheral nerve neurobiology and surgery. He has co-edited two textbooks on peripheral nerve surgery.

Dr. Midha runs a basic science laboratory and is a Neuroscientist member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary. He has a special interest in peripheral nerve function, injury, repair, grafting, and regeneration.

Updated: 2009-04-28