About Dr. Kunal Bhanot MD MSc FRCSC

2021- Present | Spine Surgeon, Grand River Hospital, Waterloo, Canada

2021- Present | Spine Surgeon, Cambridge Memorial Hospital, Cambridge, Canada

2020- Present | Courtesy Staff Spine and Orthopaedic Surgery, Mackenzie Health, Toronto, Canada

2019- 2020 | Postgraduate Medical Program, University of Toronto

Fellowship in Orthopaedic Spine and Trauma Surgery, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada

2014-2019 | Postgraduate Medical Program, University of Toronto

Orthopaedic Surgery, Toronto, Ontario

2011- 2014 | Undergraduate Medical Program, McMaster University

M.D. Kitchener, Canada

2007- 2009 | Cellular and Molecular Medicine Program, University of Ottawa

M.Sc. in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Ottawa, Canada

2003- 2006 | Faculty of Science, Trent University

B.Sc. (Hons.) in Biology and Psychology, Peterborough, Canada

AliAsghar Mohammadi Nasrabadi, Gemah Moammer, Ahmed Quateen, Kunal Bhanot, John

McPhee (2024) Landet: an efficient physics-informed deep learning approach for automatic

detection of anatomical landmarks and measurement of spinopelvic alignment. Journal of

Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 19 (1): 199

Sarraj M, Alqahtani A, Thornley P, Koziarz F, Bailey CS, Freire-Archer M, Bhanot K, Kachur E,

Bhandari M, Oitment C (2022) Management of deep surgical site infections of the spine: A

Canadian nationwide survey. Journal of Spine Surgery 8 (4): 443-452

Oitment C, Thornley P, Koziarz F, Jentzsch T, Bhanot K (2022) A Review of Strategies to Improve

Biomechanical Fixation in the Cervical Spine. Global Spine Journal 12(7): 1596-1610

Wu J, Oitment C, Silverman J, Grey T, Bhanot K (2022) Unilateral Axillary Lymphadenopathy

After COVID-19 Vaccine Causing Medial Cord Plexopathy: A Case Report. JBJS Case Connector

12(2): e21.00712.

Kunal Bhanot, Jessica Widdifield, Annie Huang, Michael Peterson, David Shultz and Joel Finkelstein (2021) Outcomes following surgery for spinal metastases in Ontario, Canada: population-based cohort study. Canadian Journal of Surgery. Accepted for Publication.

Kunal Bhanot *, Ali Zahrai *, Xin Mei, Zachary Tan, Eric Crawford, Albert Yee, and Valerie Palda (2020) Disclosing surgical risk and determining patient information needs during informed consent for lumbar microdiscectomy. Canadian Journal of Surgery 63 (3): E284 - E291.

* These authors contributed equally to this work

Kunal Bhanot (2019) BASS/BSS Presidents’ Travelling Fellowship. Canadian Spine Society Spinal Columns 19 (3) 21-23.

Bhanot, K. *, Chang, J. *, Grant, S., Facteau, A. and M. Camp (2019) Training surgeons and the informed consent discussion in paediatric patients: A qualitative study examining trainee participation disclosure. BMJ Open Quality 8 (3). * These authors contributed equally to this work

Kunal Bhanot*, Xin Y. Mei*, Dmitry Tsvetkov, Raghav Rajgopal, Oleg Safir and Paul Kuzyk (2018) Current uses of the transtrochanteric approach: A systematic review. JBJS Reviews 6 (7): e2.

* These authors contributed equally to this work

Dustin Jacobson, Kunal Bhanot, Blake Yarascavitch, Jennifer Chuback, Ehud Rosenbloom and Mohit Bhandari (2015) Levels of evidence: a comparison between top 3 medical journals and general pediatric journals. BMC Pediatrics 15 (3).

Andrew Ferrier, Tadasu Sato, Sabrina Gibeault, Kunal Bhanot, Yves de Repentigny, Ryan O’Meara, Kevin Young and Rashmi Kothary (2014) Transgenic expression of neuronal dystonin isoform 2 partially rescues the disease phenotype of the dystonia musculorum mouse model of hereditary sensory autonomic neuropathy VI. Human Molecular Genetics 23 (10): 2694-2710.

Ryan W. O’Meara*, John-Paul Michalski*, Carrie Anderson, Kunal Bhanot, Peter Rippstein, and Rashmi Kothary (2013) Integrin-linked kinase regulates oligodendrocyte differentiation and axonal myelination via control of actin cytoskeletal dynamics. The Journal of Neuroscience 33: 9781-93. * These authors contributed equally to this work

Scott D. Ryan, Kunal Bhanot, Yves De Repentigny, Alphonse Chu, Alexandre Blais and Rashmi Kothary (2012) Microtubule stability, Golgi organization, and transport flux require dystonin-a2/MAP1B interaction. Journal of Cell Biology 196 (6): 727-42.

Lyndsay M. Murray, Ariane Beauvais, Kunal Bhanot and Rashmi Kothary (2012) Defects in Neuromuscular Junction Remodelling in the Smn2B/- Mouse Model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Neurobiology of Disease 49C: 57-67.

Martin J.L., Bhanot K. and S. Athreya (2013) Complications and Reinterventions in Uterine Artery Embolization for Symptomatic Uterine Fibroids: A Literature Review and Meta Analysis. CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology 36: 395-402.

Kunal Bhanot, Kevin G. Young and Rashmi Kothary (2011) MAP1B and clathrin are novel interacting partners of the giant cyto-linker dystonin. Journal of Proteome Research 10 (11): 5118

Bhanot, K. *, Boyer, J.G. *, Kothary, R. and C. Boudreau-Larvière (2010) Hearts of dystonia musculorum mice display normal morphological and histological features but show signs of cardiac stress. PLoS One 5 (3): e9465.

* These authors contributed equally to this work