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Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)SurgeryMcMaster University

Kevin Kwan

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Surgery

Faculty of Health Sciences

McMaster University

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

In this role since 2014

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Adjunct, part-time and visiting faculty usually co-supervise alongside a core faculty member.
No graduate courses on record.
6 publications in the last five years, latest in 2023.

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kwank2@mcmaster.ca

48 publications.

Incidence, mechanism, and protective strategies for 2-year pelvic fixation failure after adult spinal deformity surgery with a minimum six-level fusion.

Lee NJ, Marciano G, Puvanesarajah V, Park PJ, Clifton WE, Kwan K, Morrissette CR, Williams JL, Fields M, Hassan FM

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine202340 citations

DOI: 10.3171/2022.8.spine22755

Childhood Brain Tumors: A Review of Strategies to Translate CNS Drug Delivery to Clinical Trials

Rahman R, Janowski M, Killick-Cole CL, Singleton WGB, Campbell E, Walczak P, Khatua S, Faltings L, Symons M, Schneider JR

Cancers202317 citations

DOI: 10.3390/cancers15030857

How common is acute pelvic fixation failure after adult spine surgery? A single-center study of 358 patients.

Lee NJ, Park PJ, Puvanesarajah V, Clifton WE, Kwan K, Morrissette CR, Williams JL, Fields MW, Leung E, Hassan FM

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine202311 citations

DOI: 10.3171/2022.7.spine22498

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Breslow Thickness by Melanoma Subtype Among Women

Bubic B, Fernandez J, Dahak S, Mata E, Kwan K, Sutton A, Whitley MJ, Wysong A

Journal of American Academy of Dermatology2023

FACIAL ACANTHOSIS NIGRICANS SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH NOVEL 1927 NONABLATIVE LASER THERAPY

Kwan K, Fenandez J, Siller A, Sulewski R

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine2023First author

The Intraoperative Pelvic Radiograph During Total Hip Arthroplasty: Is It Reliable to Estimate Leg Length?

Tsang H, Bouz T, Kwan K, French M

Arthroplasty Today20228 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.artd.2022.03.009

Interdisciplinary treatment of posterior fossa dural arteriovenous fistulas

Peto I, Abou-Al-Shaar H, White TG, Kwan K, Wagner K, Prashant GN, Chalif D, Katz JM, Dehdashti AR

Acta Neurochirurgica20214 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s00701-021-04795-2

Sources of residuals after endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery for large and giant pituitary adenomas

Peto I, Abou-Al-Shaar H, White TG, Abunimer AM, Kwan K, Zavadskiy G, Wagner K, Black K, Eisenberg M, Bruni M

Acta Neurochirurgica202018 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s00701-020-04497-1

Cerebrospinal fluid macrophage migration inhibitory factor: a potential predictor of cerebral vasospasm and clinical outcome after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

Kwan K, Arapi O, Wagner KE, Schneider J, Sy HL, Ward MF, Sison CP, Li C, Eisenberg MB, Chalif D

Journal of Neurosurgery202017 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.3171/2019.6.jns19613

Near Total Versus Gross Total Resection of Large Vestibular Schwannomas: Facial Nerve Outcome

Schneider JR, Chiluwal AK, Arapi O, Kwan K, Dehdashti AR

Operative Neurosurgery202016 citations

DOI: 10.1093/ons/opaa056

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Jackek Michael Kwiecien

Pathology & Molecular Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2011

Mitchell Levine

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

1 shared papers, latest 2019

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Kevin Kwan

Incidence, mechanism, and protective strategies for 2-year pelvic fixation failure after adult spinal deformity surgery with a minimum six-level fusion.

Childhood Brain Tumors: A Review of Strategies to Translate CNS Drug Delivery to Clinical Trials

How common is acute pelvic fixation failure after adult spine surgery? A single-center study of 358 patients.

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Breslow Thickness by Melanoma Subtype Among Women

FACIAL ACANTHOSIS NIGRICANS SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH NOVEL 1927 NONABLATIVE LASER THERAPY

The Intraoperative Pelvic Radiograph During Total Hip Arthroplasty: Is It Reliable to Estimate Leg Length?

Interdisciplinary treatment of posterior fossa dural arteriovenous fistulas

Sources of residuals after endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery for large and giant pituitary adenomas

Cerebrospinal fluid macrophage migration inhibitory factor: a potential predictor of cerebral vasospasm and clinical outcome after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

Near Total Versus Gross Total Resection of Large Vestibular Schwannomas: Facial Nerve Outcome

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Suman Chatterjee

J Paul Whelan

Edward Matsumoto

Jackek Michael Kwiecien

Mitchell Levine