Julio C. Furlan is a staff neurologist and a Clinician Investigator in the Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Lyndhurst Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, and KITE Research Institute University Health Network, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Toronto. He is a trained head and neck surgeon from Brazil, who holds a MBA degree in Health Administration, an MSc degree in Clinical Epidemiology, and a PhD degree in Neuroanatomy. In the past, Dr. Furlan has worked as an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Genetics and Development, Toronto Western Research Institute, University Health Network from 2007 to 2012. Dr. Furlan has also been an Adjunct Scientist at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network from 2009-2016, inclusive. He completed five years of residency training in Adult Neurology at University of Toronto in June 2014. He subsequently completed a two-year clinical fellowship in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and the University of Toronto in June 2016. Dr Furlan´s research has been focused on outcome measures (including clinical assessments, neuroimaging analysis, and neurophysiological assessments) and predictors of outcome after traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injury. In addition, he has interest and expertise in neuromodulation, autonomic dysfunction after spinal cord injury and economic analyses.
