Aaron Nauth and his wife Rhonda
It is with great pleasure that I announce the addition
of Aaron Nauth to the Division of Orthopaedics at St.
Michael’s Hospital as an associate scientist and surgeon.
Aaron completed his orthopaedic residency at the
University of Toronto, followed by two fellowships:
Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy at the University of
British Columbia and Trauma and Upper Extremity
at the University of Toronto. Aaron’s clinical focus is
orthopaedic trauma, soft tissue reconstruction and
arthroscopy. He is an active member of the University of
Toronto Sports Medicine (UTOSM) program and works
as a trauma team leader at St. Michael’s hospital in addition
to his orthopaedic practice. His research focus is
on the basic science of fracture and tendon healing with
stem cell therapy in addition to conducting randomized
clinical trials in orthopaedic trauma.
To date, he is the recipient of several prestigious
awards and grants: (1) the Canadian Orthopaedic
Research Society Founders Medal Award for Best Basic
Science Paper in 2012 at the Canadian Orthopaedic
Association Annual Meeting in Ottawa, and (2) peer reviewed
grants from the Physician Services Incorporated
Fund and the Orthopaedic Trauma Association in 2013
in both basic science and clinical research. Already an
invaluable member of our Division, we look forward
to his contribution in our pursuit of clinical excellence,
groundbreaking research and commitment to teaching.
Aaron enjoys spending his free time outdoors with his
wife Rhonda and their dog Watson.
Timothy Daniels,
Chief of the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery,
St. Michael’s Hospital
 Suneil Kalia
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Suneil Kalia is a graduate of
the MD/PhD program at the
University of Toronto, where
he entered the neurosurgery
residency program in 2006.
During his PhD he discovered
novel molecular targets which
contribute to the degeneration
of dopaminergic neurons
in Parkinson’s disease. From
2009-10, he completed a postdoctoral
research fellowship
at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for
Neurodegenerative Disease, Harvard University. He
resumed residency training and graduated from the
Toronto program in 2012 and became a Fellow of the
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
that year. From 2012-13, Dr. Kalia completed a clinical
fellowship in functional and stereotactic neurosurgery
at Toronto Western Hospital, and was recruited to the
Division of Neurosurgery with a staff appointment at
Toronto Western Hospital.
He is appointed as an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto.
His clinical focus on the surgical management of movement
disorders, particularly Parkinson’s disease, follows
as a logical extension of his longstanding research
interests. His research laboratory is within the Toronto
Western Research Institute and focuses on understanding
molecular mechanisms of protein homeostasis in
neurodegeneration and on establishing model systems to
study protein function in neurodegenerative disease. Dr.
Kalia is married to Lorraine Kalia, a neurodegenerative
disease researcher and a movement disorders neurologist
at Toronto Western Hospital.
James Rutka,
RS McLaughlin Professor and Chair,
Department of Surgery, University of Toronto