Dr. Radziunas is an experienced neurosurgeon from Lithuania who will be working with our team for one year. We will be collaborating on a number of research projects before he returns to Kaunas.
Danielle joined our team in 2021 and will be helping coordinate our research trials. You may get a phone call from her setting up visits with the DBS clinic or with our Fellows.
Nancy joined our DBS Clinic in March 2013. She has a background in neuroscience nursing and was a clinical instructor at UBC. She is an important part of the team responsible for the pre-operative and post-operative management of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) patients. Medical students, residents and fellows may have the opportunity to learn about how we manage our DBS patients after surgery by spending some time with Nancy in the clinic.
Mini is an important part of the team responsible for the pre-operative and post-operative management of all the Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) patients. She has an extensive 20-year experience in Neurosciences and has focused mainly on DBS for the last 10 years. Medical students, residents and fellows may have the opportunity to learn about how we manage our DBS patients after surgery by spending some time with Mini in the clinic.
Dr. Charles Dong, PhD is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Director of the Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring Program at Vancouver General Hospital. He is also a member of the UBC Brain Research Center. His work with us in the operating room is designed to help us localize our surgical targets and also minimize surgical risks to the patients.
Dr. Honey is Professor and Head of the Division of Neurosurgery at the University of British Columbia. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Toronto and his doctoral degree from Oxford University as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar. He completed his Royal College training in neurosurgery in Vancouver in 1995 and became a diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgeons in 2000. He has completed an additional year of training at Harvard Medical School and is a Scholar in Surgical Leadership.
His research is focused on the treatment of movement disorders and pain. He headed the world’s first trial of DBS for spasmodic dysphonia and published the results in 2021. He was the first physician to recognize and successfully treat hemi-laryngopharyngeal spasm (HELPS syndrome) in 2014. He discovered and successfully treated the first person in the world with VANCOUVER syndrome in 2019. He has made fundamental changes to the understanding of human pain pathways.
Dr. Honey was elected the President of the Canadian Neuromodulation Society (2016-2019) and hosted the annual national meetings in Whistler (2018) and Iqaluit (2019). The Iqaluit meeting brought attention to the fact that neuromodulation was underutilized in the Canadian North and set up referral patterns for patients in Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Yukon. Dr. Honey has served as the President of the British Columbia Section of Neurosurgeons (2016-2019).
In 2018, Dr. Honey was elected President of the World Neurosurgical Federation for Cranial Nerve Disorders. This group studies conditions such as Trigeminal Neuralgia, Hemifacial Spasm, Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia and the newly described Hemi-Laryngopharyngeal Spasm (HeLPS) and has a major interest in Microvascular Decompression (MVD) neurosurgery. Dr. Honey hosted the 3rd World Congress of this Society in Vancouver in 2022. In 2024, Dr. Honey hosted the 16th World Congress of the International Neuromodulation Society in Vancouver.
Dr Honey continues to work with the Canadian Football League Players Association and is their Neurological Director.
Dr. Honey has been invited to lecture at Universities and Meetings around the world (over 200 presentations on 6 continents). He has a strong commitment to teaching and has had the pleasure to train 25 neurosurgeons from around the world during their one-year fellowship with him in Vancouver. He has provided pro bono, humanitarian surgical care in Liberia (performing the first successful brain tumor removal, the first spine operation, and the first pediatric shunt) and in Ghana. He has been invited to operate in China, Indonesia, and performed the first DBS in Kuwait.
Dr. Honey’s book, The Tenth Nerve, published by Penguin Random House Canada, is now available at Indigo, local bookstores and drchrishoney.com.
It is an homage to seven patients who taught him more about medicine than any lecture or textbook.
