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Michael G. Fehlings

Michael G. Fehlings

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Medicine
Canada
2023

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Medicine

D-Index
160
Citations
104210
World Ranking
781
National Ranking
28

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Canada Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Michael G. Fehlings is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a particular focus on surgery and pathology. Their research predominantly spans spinal cord injury and related neurological conditions.

The main fields of study for this scientist consist of Medicine with specific concentrations in subfields such as Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Emergency Medicine, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The primary topics featured in their research include:

  • Spinal Cord Injury Research
  • Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
  • Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
  • Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
  • Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations
  • Management of metastatic bone disease
  • Spinal Hematomas and Complications

Michael G. Fehlings has published in several prominent journals with frequent publication venues including:

  • Global Spine Journal
  • Journal of Neurotrauma
  • Neurosurgery
  • The Spine Journal
  • Brain and Spine

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by this researcher include:

  • Degenerative cervical myelopathy - update and future directions, 2020, Nature Reviews Neurology
  • Stereotactic body radiotherapy versus conventional external beam radiotherapy in patients with painful spinal metastases: an open-label, multicentre, randomised, controlled, phase 2/3 trial, 2021, The Lancet Oncology
  • The influence of timing of surgical decompression for acute spinal cord injury: a pooled analysis of individual patient data, 2020, The Lancet Neurology
  • Cell-based and stem-cell-based treatments for spinal cord injury: evidence from clinical trials, 2022, The Lancet Neurology
  • Effect of Ventral vs Dorsal Spinal Surgery on Patient-Reported Physical Functioning in Patients With Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy, 2021, JAMA

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael G. Fehlings include:

  • Jefferson R. Wilson
  • James S. Harrop
  • James D. Guest
  • Brian K. Kwon
  • Jetan H. Badhiwala

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, awarded in 2014 by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Review of the secondary injury theory of acute spinal cord trauma with emphasis on vascular mechanisms

    Charles H. Tator;Michael G. Fehlings

  • Epidemiology, demographics, and pathophysiology of acute spinal cord injury.

    Lali H. S. Sekhon;Michael G. Fehlings

  • Administration of Methylprednisolone for 24 or 48 Hours or Tirilazad Mesylate for 48 Hours in the Treatment of Acute Spinal Cord Injury: Results of the Third National Acute Spinal Cord Injury Randomized Controlled Trial

    Michael B. Bracken;Mary Jo Shepard;Theodore R. Holford;Linda Leo-Summers

  • Traumatic spinal cord injury

    Christopher S. Ahuja;Jefferson R. Wilson;Satoshi Nori;Mark R. N. Kotter

  • Bystander CD8+ T cells are abundant and phenotypically distinct in human tumour infiltrates

    Yannick Simoni;Etienne Becht;Michael Fehlings;Chiew Yee Loh

  • A novel classification system for spinal instability in neoplastic disease: an evidence-based approach and expert consensus from the Spine Oncology Study Group.

    Charles G. Fisher;Christian P. Dipaola;Timothy C. Ryken;Mark H. Bilsky

  • A new classification of thoracolumbar injuries : The importance of injury morphology, the integrity of the posterior ligamentous complex, and neurologic status

    Alexander R. Vaccaro;Ronald A. Lehman;R. John Hurlbert;Paul A. Anderson

  • Early versus delayed decompression for traumatic cervical spinal cord injury: results of the Surgical Timing in Acute Spinal Cord Injury Study (STASCIS).

    Michael G. Fehlings;Alexander Vaccaro;Jefferson R. Wilson;Anoushka Singh

  • Global prevalence and incidence of traumatic spinal cord injury

    Anoushka Singh;Lindsay Tetreault;Suhkvinder Kalsi-Ryan;Aria Nouri

  • Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: Epidemiology, Genetics, and Pathogenesis.

    Aria Nouri;Lindsay Tetreault;Anoushka Singh;Spyridon K. Karadimas

  • Self-Assembling Nanofibers Inhibit Glial Scar Formation and Promote Axon Elongation after Spinal Cord Injury

    Vicki M. Tysseling-Mattiace;Vibhu Sahni;Krista L. Niece;Derin Birch

  • AOSpine thoracolumbar spine injury classification system: fracture description, neurological status, and key modifiers.

    Alexander R. Vaccaro;Cumhur Oner;Christopher K. Kepler;Marcel Dvorak

  • Guidelines for the conduct of clinical trials for spinal cord injury as developed by the ICCP panel: spontaneous recovery after spinal cord injury and statistical power needed for therapeutic clinical trials

    J W Fawcett;A Curt;J D Steeves;W P Coleman

  • Delayed Transplantation of Adult Neural Precursor Cells Promotes Remyelination and Functional Neurological Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury

    Soheila Karimi-Abdolrezaee;Eftekhar Eftekharpour;Jian Wang;Cindi M Morshead

  • The role of excitotoxicity in secondary mechanisms of spinal cord injury: a review with an emphasis on the implications for white matter degeneration.

    Eugene Park;Alexander A. Velumian;Michael G. Fehlings

  • Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury-Repair and Regeneration.

    Christopher S. Ahuja;Satoshi Nori;Lindsay Tetreault;Jefferson Wilson

  • A Systematic Review of Cellular Transplantation Therapies for Spinal Cord Injury

    Wolfram Tetzlaff;Elena B. Okon;Soheila Karimi-Abdolrezaee;Caitlin E. Hill

  • The relationships among the severity of spinal cord injury, residual neurological function, axon counts, and counts of retrogradely labeled neurons after experimental spinal cord injury.

    Michael G. Fehlings;Charles H. Tator

  • Spinal Instability Neoplastic Score: An Analysis of Reliability and Validity From the Spine Oncology Study Group

    Daryl R. Fourney;Evan M. Frangou;Timothy C. Ryken;Christian P. DiPaola

  • The subaxial cervical spine injury classification system: a novel approach to recognize the importance of morphology, neurology, and integrity of the disco-ligamentous complex.

    Alexander R. Vaccaro;R. John Hulbert;Alpesh A. Patel;Charles Fisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander R. Vaccaro
Alexander R. Vaccaro Thomas Jefferson University
James S. Harrop
James S. Harrop Thomas Jefferson University
Marcel F. Dvorak
Marcel F. Dvorak University of British Columbia
Ziya L. Gokaslan
Ziya L. Gokaslan Brown University
Charles G. Fisher
Charles G. Fisher University of British Columbia
Arjun Sahgal
Arjun Sahgal Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Brian K. Kwon
Brian K. Kwon University of British Columbia
Charles H. Tator
Charles H. Tator Toronto Western Hospital
Christopher P. Ames
Christopher P. Ames University of California, San Francisco

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