Fred Lam

St Elizabeth's Medical Center
Boston, United States

Dr. Fred C Lam, MD, PhD, FRCSC, is a Canadian board-certified neurosurgeon. He obtained a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of British Columbia, and completed his neurosurgery residency training at the University of Alberta, Canada. He then completed a complex spine fellowship and a research fellowship in neurosurgical oncology and radiosurgery in the Division of Neurosurgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Following his neurosurgical fellowship, he pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), studying the use of nanotechnology and precision medicine approaches for the treatment of brain tumors.

After his postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, Dr. Lam returned to Canada briefly just before the start of the COVID pandemic as a Clinical Scholar and junior faculty member in the Division of Neurosurgery, McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, with a clinical focus taking care of brain tumor patients and conducting brain metastasis research. After the pandemic, he returned to the United States and completed a general neurosurgery fellowship at Northwell Health on Long Island, NY. Dr. Lam is currently a junior attending neurosurgeon in the Division of Neurosurgery as Saint Elizabeth’s Medical Center (SEMC) in Brighton, MA. He has a Harvard Visiting Scientist appointment and is a POI Collaborator in Professor E Antonio Chiocca's laboratory in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.