Dr. George M Ibrahim

Dr George Ibrahim, MD, PhD
Abe Bresver Chair in Functional Neurosurgery, Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto
Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Dr. George Ibrahim is a pediatric neurosurgeon and the Abe Bresver Chair in Functional
Neurosurgery at the Hospital for Sick Children. He is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, the Institute of Medical Sciences and the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He is also a Senior Scientist in the Neurosciences and Mental Health program at the SickKids Research Institute and Co-leads the Posluns Centre for Image Guided Innovation and Therapeutic Interventon.
His clinical and research interests include the surgical treatment of medically intractable
epilepsy, spasticity and movement disorders in children. He plays a leading role in the
comprehensive epilepsy, dorsal rhizotomy and deep brain stimulation programs at SickKids.
His research lab is dedicated to the study of neural networks in children with epilepsy and
neurodevelopmental disorders through a combination of connectomic, computational
neuroscience and machine learning approaches. He also leads several novel, translational
clinical trials of neuromodulation in children. His work has been published in over 250 peer-
reviewed journals and is funded by several organizations, including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr. Ibrahim received several awards and recognitions including being named as one of Canada's Top 40 under 40 in 2019.