Dr. Omar is currently Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at McMaster University and will be starting his position as staff neurosurgeon at the Hamilton General Hospital in Ontario, Canada this fall. His clinical practice is focused in neuro-oncology; he pursued subspecialty training in Skull Base Surgery at the University of Calgary – Foothills Medical Centre, followed by a clinical fellowship in Neuro-oncology at the University of Toronto – St. Michael’s Hospital. He is currently completing his Master of Science in Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; his research interest lies in leveraging administrative databases in health services and surgical outcomes research, including comparative effectiveness of treatment strategies for intracranial aneurysms.