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Professor
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery
- ProfessorTemerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery
- 416-813-6426
- Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Ave., Rm 1503, Toronto, M5G 1X8, Canada
BIO
Dr. Peter Dirks graduated from Queen's University Medical School in Kingston, Ontario in 1989. He completed his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Pathology in 1997 at the University of Toronto (U of T), and his neurosurgery training at the U of T in 1998 (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Canada, 1998). He then completed his Paediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship training at L'hôpital Necker Enfants Malades in Paris in 1998.
In 1998, he was appointed to Neurosurgical Staff at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and U of T. He was subsequently appointed to the SickKids Research Institute's Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program in 1999 where he established his research laboratory to study brain tumours in the Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre at SickKids.
In 2019, Dr. Dirks was appointed Head of the Division of Neurosurgery at Sickkids.
MEDIA
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Garron Family Chair in Childhood Cancer ResearchHospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada2012 - 2019
- Harold Hoffman/Shopper Drug Mart Chair in Pediatric NeurosurgeryHospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada2019 - present
- Chief, Division of NeurosurgeryHospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada2019 - present
- ProfessorUniversity of Toronto, Department of Molecular Genetics, Graduate Studies, Toronto, Canada2010 - present
- Senior ScientistHospital for Sick Children, Developmental Biology Program, Research Institute, Toronto, Canada2010 - present
- ProfessorUniversity of Toronto, Department of Surgery, Toronto, Canada2009 - present
- ProfessorUniversity of Toronto, Graduate Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Graduate Studies, Toronto, Canada1998 - present
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Staff SurgeonHospital for Sick Children, Department of Surgery (Neurosurgery), Toronto, Canada1998 - present
DEGREES
- MDQueen's University, Kingston, Canada1985 - 1989
- PhDUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1997
CERTIFICATIONS
- FRCSCRoyal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Ottawa, Canada1998 - present
- LicenseCollege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Toronto, Canada1991 - presentMembership #: 60703
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- Neurosurgery ResidencyUniversity of Toronto, Department of Neurosurgery, Toronto, Canada1990 - 1998ResidencySupervised by Tator CHT
- Comprehensive Intern in SurgeryToronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada1989 - 1990Internship
- McLaughlin Fellowship,Universite Rene Descartes, Hopital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France1998 - 1998Clinical Fellowship
AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS
- Hospital for Sick Children