The Neuro Team

Dr. David Stewart Sinclair is clinical professor in Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Neurosurgery in the Division of Neurosurgery of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University. His clinical interests are centred in areas concerned with carotid artery disease and stroke, cerebral aneurysm and subarachnoid hemorrhage treatment strategies, cerebral circulation augmentation procedures and AVM treatment. Research fields are focused on stem cell therapies for stroke and, most recently, understanding evolutionary clues to cerebral development. He is very involved in medical student and resident education and is directs undergraduate neurosurgical education in the Faculty of Medicine.

Dr. Sinclair has completed postgraduate training in areas as diverse as marine biology, medical epidemiology and flight medicine. After having served as medical officer in the Canadian Navy, and having worked with the United Nations Peace-keeping mission in the Middle East, he practiced family medicine for 2 years in a small community on the south shore of Nova Scotia.

Thereafter Dr. Sinclair pursued neurosurgical training at the University of Alberta and obtained his Royal College Specialist Certificate in Neurosurgery in 1995. He then joined the burgeoning neurosurgical group at Dalhousie University where he had a busy general neurosurgical practice with a focus on paediatric and trauma neurosurgery. In 1997 Dr. Sinclair was afforded an opportunity for adventure as ship’s crew and part-time physician aboard the Barque Picton Castle on its maiden circumnavigation of the globe. Upon his return in 1999 he joined the Division of Neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital after completing a 'Neuro' fellowship in cerebrovascular surgery.