ISCOPE

Our Team

Get to Know Us

Over the years, evidence has shown the best way to treat concussion, chronic pain and neurological injury is through a multidisciplinary evidence-based approach. That’s why we’ve assembled a nationally recognized group of neuro-focused specialists and practitioners who can provide timely and injury-specific interventions for those who may take longer to recover or for those with complex/chronic conditions. When these occur, our team can assist in recovery in all facets. Our patients can see a multitude of practitioners who have acquired their degrees, residencies & fellowships from prestigious universities such as McMaster University, University of Toronto, Stanford University, Harvard Medical School and University of British Columbia. In addition to obtaining distinct experience in a broad range of areas related to brain trauma, pain & injury, many members of our team are also active professors in universities across North America and have co-authored and contributed to multiple textbooks and research articles and have been recognized for various academic excellence awards relating to medical education & neurology. They are experts in their field, love what they do and invite you to come work with them.

Dr. Manu Mehdiratta

Neurologist & Founder &
Medical Director ON

Dr. Manu Mehdiratta completed medical school at McMaster University in 2001 and Neurology Residency at the University of British Columbia in 2006. He then completed fellowship training in stroke and cerebrovascular diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre (BIDMC) in Boston, Massachusetts and following fellowship served on the faculty in the Division of Cerebrovascular Diseases, Department of Neurology, BIDMC and Harvard Medical School. He is currently a practicing on-call neurologist and sub-specialist at Trillium Health Partners and co-founded the Trillium Brain and Spine Clinic as well as Iscope Concussion and Pain Clinics to better diagnose and treat stroke and traumatic brain injuries.

Dr. Mehdiratta is on faculty as a Part-Time Assistant Professor in the Division of Neurology, University of Toronto. He is actively involved in teaching of medical students as well as stroke and concussion related clinical trials and research. His clinical interests include traumatic brain injury, headache and cerebrovascular diseases. He has published numerous articles, papers and book chapters in the area of neurology.

Dr. Nav Chaudhary

Neurosurgeon & Medical
Director BC

Dr. Navjot Chaudhary, MD, FRCSC, received her medical degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She then completed her Neurosurgery Residency at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario followed by Fellowships in Spine Surgery and CyberKnife Radiosurgery at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Following Fellowship, Dr. Chaudhary joined the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University as a Clinical Assistant Professor from 2015-2019. Upon moving back to Canada, she joined the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of British Columbia in 2019.

Dr. Chaudhary is a member of Women in Neurosurgery (WINS), the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), the Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation (CNSF), and the Canadian Spine Society (CSS). Her clinical interests include traumatic brain injury (with a focus on concussion and headache management), spine trauma, degenerative spine disease, and neuro-oncology. She has co-authored dozens of textbook chapters and research articles.

Rami A. Kamel, MB,BCh, FRCPC

Anesthesiologist and Pain Medicine Specialist

Dr. Rami A. Kamel finished his medical degree from Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine in Cairo, Egypt. He then completed research fellowships at Harvard Medical School and the University of Toronto, where he stayed and finished his anesthesia residency training, earning the Fellowship of the Royal College of Canada. He then went on to complete another residency training at McMaster University in Pain Medicine and earned another Royal College sub-specialist designation. Dr. Kamel enjoys teaching ACLS courses as a faculty at the Sunnybrook Advanced Life Support Program. He is passionate about clinical education and is currently pursuing a Clinician Educator Program formation at McMaster University.
He holds a staff appointment at Scarborough Health Network as an anesthesiologist. He also holds the academic appointment of Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences.
When he’s not practicing medicine, he enjoys playing the violin and other musical instruments. He enjoys calligraphy and portraiture and has also trained in sketching and painting.

Dr. Matityahu Beniar

Neurologist

Dr. Elliott Bogusz

Neurologist

Dr. Bogusz started his medical training on the West Coast completing his Masters in Neuroscience and his MD at the University of British Columbia before moving to the prairies to complete his Neurology training at the University of Alberta. He went on to complete a neuromuscular fellowship at the University of British Columbia, and practices neurology with a specific specialty interest in neuromuscular disorders and headache. He is currently a Clinical Instructor at the University of British Columbia, and thoroughly enjoys educating all levels of our BC medical trainees.

Dr H. Lee Lau

Neurologist - BC

Dr. H. Lee Lau is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the UBC Division of Neurology. He received his neurology training and is board-certified in both the United States and Canada.
Dr. Lau has additional training in stroke with an interest in management of concussion and headache.

Dr. Aaron Kirschner

Neurologist

Dr. Aaron Kirschner is a neurologist specializing in traumatic brain injury as well as general neurology. He also has an interest in interventional pain medicine and is currently completing a pain medicine fellowship at the University of Toronto.

He completed his neurology training and medical doctorate at McMaster University, serving as chief medical resident. He completed his undergraduate training at The University of British Columbia in cognitive science, followed by a master’s degree in neuroscience at Western University where he focused on brain-computer interfaces and online cognitive assessment tools for individuals with acquired brain injury.

Dr. James Kung

Emergency Medicine

Dr. Kung is a B.C. based Emergency Physician. His interests include trauma and clinical informatics. Of course, as a Vancouver native, he is an avid, skier and mountain biker. He is no stranger to concussions and the other associated injuries one can get when tumbling down a mountain!

Dr. Mini Randhawa

Neuro-Optometrist

Dr. Randhawa is a developmental optometrist and a member of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development. She has undertaken a residency in vision therapy and advanced training in vision therapy and developmental vision. As a developmental optometrist, she is qualified to to diagnose and treat developmental vision problems such as amblyopia, strabismus, binocular vision dysfunctions, convergence insufficiency, depth perception problems, visual information processing deficits. She also conducts rehabilitation for vision problems resulting from head and brain injuries.

Dr. Philippe Rizek

Neurologist

Dr. Rizek is a neurologist and Movement Disorders subspecialist. He completed his Neurology residency at Western University, and subsequently his clinical fellowship in Movement Disorders at Western University, under the mentorship of Dr. Mandar Jog. He completed his Master’s degree in Anatomy and Cell Biology at Queen’s University. He is currently staff neurologist/movement disorders specialist at Credit Valley Hospital; Physician Lead, EEG Quality, at Trillium Health Partners; Neurologist in the Huntington Disease clinic at North York General Hospital. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and Investigator at the Institute of Better Health, Trillium Health Partners. He has published numerous articles in the areas of movement disorders and neurology. He has won teaching awards, most recently, a teaching excellence award for medical education from the University of Toronto’s MD program.

Dr. David Aboussafy

Psychologist - BC

Dr. Ryan Punambolam

Neurologist

Dr Punambolam is an experienced neurologist and medical director of the Enhanced District Stroke Center, Windsor Essex. Formerly chief of medicine, Abbotsford Regional Hospital and faculty of Physician Quality Improvement Program at Fraser Health.

He has lectured extensively on quality improvement science, migraine, traumatic brain injury and stroke prevention. He is particularly interested on the impact of meditation and exercise on optimizing brain function. He is an Adjunct Professor, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Schulich School of Medicine and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Windsor.

Dr. Bryan Temple

Neurologist

Dr. Linda Johnson

Neurology Nurse Practitioner

Dr. Ammar Al-Khudairy

Interventional Physiatrist (ON)

Dr. Emily Crookshank

Neurologist - (Ontario)

Dr. John Thornton

Psychiatry

Dr. Faisal Motlani

Interventional Anesthesiologist (ON)

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Iscope is currently accepting new patients. A referral from your primary care physician or specialist is required for consultations covered by your provincial plan. If you require rehabilitation services a referral is not required.