Growing up in Winnipeg’s gritty North End, Howard Lesiuk liked to fix things: shortwave radios, old cars. His Uncle Phil taught him to make and repair cabinets.
“I’ve always been a hands-on sort of guy,” says Dr. Lesiuk, who, as one of Ottawa’s top neurosurgeons, now repairs brains.
Lesiuk is the director of cerebrovascular surgery at The Ottawa Hospital and chair of the neurosurgery division at the University of Ottawa’s medical school. He is a leading practitioner of minimally invasive brain surgery: a technique that allows neurosurgeons to operate inside the brain using the body’s network of blood vessels.
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Source: Ottawa Citizen
