Dr. Candice Poon MD, PhD, FRCSC

Candice Poon, MD, PhD, FRCSC
Assistant Professor, Section of Neurosurgery
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Department of Oncology
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB | Canada

Dr. Candice Poon is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary and a Neurosurgeon with Alberta Health Services at Foothills Medical Centre. She obtained a BSc Honors Neuroscience degree from the University of Alberta where she subsequently earned her MD. Following this, she pursued a Neurosurgical Residency at the University of Calgary where she also completed an enfolded PhD in Neuro-Oncology and -Immunology under the supervision of Dr. Wee Yong. Dr. Poon was then selected for a research and neurosurgical-oncology clinical fellowship at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. During this time, she studied the glioma perivascular niche under the supervision of Dr. Padmanee Sharma and Dr. Frederick Lang. Dr. Poon has now returned to the University of Calgary with appointments in both the Departments of Clinical Neurosciences and Oncology. She is launching her own interdisciplinary laboratory integrating the fields of neuro-oncology/-immunology, bioinformatics, and the biology of the perivascular niche with a focus on how stromal cells interact with immune cells to affect brain tumors.