After completing his undergraduate and residency training at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, Dr. Samuel Johnson worked as a specialist in the Department of Hand Surgery and Leprosy Reconstructive Surgery and in the Emergency Department of the Christian Medical College and Hospital. He then completed four clinical fellowships at the University of Toronto hospitals in Orthopedics and spine. Following this, he worked as a Senior Specialist in orthopedics and spine at several hospitals in the Middle East. Upon returning to Canada, he completed five years of clinical fellowship in neurosurgery at Queen’s University with a special interest in spine