Paul Steinbok BSc, MBBS, FRCSC

Dr. Paul Steinbok, Head Emeritus of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, was born in Barbados, West Indies, and obtained his medical training at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and a honors degree in Physiology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. This was followed by an internship in Toronto and a residency in neurosurgery in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Steinbok became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in Neurosurgery in 1977. Thereafter he was awarded a Medical Research Council of Canada research fellowship to the University of North Carolina and Duke University in North Carolina for studies in brain tumors. He returned to Vancouver, and has been practicing as a neurosurgeon in Vancouver since March 1979. In 1981, Dr. Steinbok was certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and is a Diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery. Since 1985, he has limited his practice to pediatric neurosurgery. In 1996 he was certified by the American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery and was recertified in 2006.

Dr. Steinbok is recognized internationally as a leader in pediatric neurosurgery. He has been on the executive of the American Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery and the Pediatric Section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He is a Past President of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery. He is listed in the International Directory of Distinguished Leadership. Dr. Steinbok has been recognized for his excellence in clinical neurosurgery by being listed in the Best Doctors in America and Canada. In 2002 he was appointed to the advisory board of Best Doctors in Canada.