CHIARI DRS LIST ~~~~CANADA

[selmaS]

Hi I wanted to get a list started for those of you in Canada...I am not sure if these drs r indeed chiari specialists, but found their names listed on another chiari site.Please RESEARCH all drs and do not take this list as a reference.
Let us know if u saw ne of these drs and what  thought.


CANADA

Dr. Rudolph Arts
Neurologist
Barrie, Ontario
(ph) 705.721.1060

Dr. Paul Muller
Chief of Neurosurgery
St. Michael's Hospital
Toronto, Ontario
(ph) 416.864.5590

Dr Hurlbert
Neurosurgeon
Foothills Hospital
Calgary, AB, Canada

Dr. Rutka
Neurosurgeon
Sick Children's Hospital
Toronto, Ontario

Dr. Ramesh Sahjpaul
Neurological Sciences
339 Windermere Road,
London, Ontario N6A 5A5
(ph) 519.663.3706
(fax) 519.663.3753

[selmaS]

  Thanks for the update : )

[selmaS]

  Hi and welcome to the Chiari forum.

That name is not listed on the above thread....and if someone here went to that Dr and liked them it would  or should have been added here...sorry I have no info on him.


The best thing you and your mom can do is educate yourselves on Chiari and ALL related conditions so it will make choosing the Dr to treat your mom easier.

Quickly is not something anyone anywhere in the medical profession understand....take your time to see a few Drs and make sure they are true Chiari specialists...and your mom likes them.

[Bestm]

Hello! My mom has been diagnosed with Chiari and has been waiting to see a neurosurgeon that she was referred to in Ottawa for over a year now, she still doesn't even have an appointment. I am trying to do some research and get her a doc who will see her ASAP as she is not doing well, she's getting worse. I'm not going to sit by and wait. This is the doctor she is waiting to see:

Dr. Fahad Alkherayf
Civic Hospital 613-798-5555 ext. 10661

Has anyone seen him? How long did it take to see him?

Anyone have an recommendations that we can get her family doctor to refer her to? Someone who will see her quickly. Thank you. As long as it's in Ontario, we don't care where otherwise.

[selmaS]

  I am so sorry to hear he is worse.....Have you tried to get the Drs there to consult with a Chiari specialist here in the states?

It does sound like he has a leak, OR the area that was made larger 1- was not large enuff OR 2- was too large.

Has he had a MRI recently?

[missyorkie]

He did not help Jim.. He is worse now then before decompression. Has dismissed him.  So back to begging for help. Not sure if Jim will survive this. Memory is worse, choking horrible, double vision, slurring and hard to understand. Sent Jim back to Neurologist that had scratched his head for two years saying complex case.  He only suggested. Geriatric shrink. No dam clue on any of this. Anne

[missyorkie]

Yes Jim was told for 4 years he was leaking fluid as the reason his first cat scan showed his brain was not sitting where it should be. Now I feel so disappointed. Prokupa said his surgery was a sucess and the cause of his symptoms still causing problems. Said he figured the cause was Syringomyelia that did not shrink like he thought.
Now to find a passionate specialist that acts like he cares.  Any help for ontario is so needed.

[shelleym01]

there is little to no doctors experienced  with chiari malformations in Ontario im finding..seems to be hit and miss if they have even heard of such a thing..