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Dr. Albert Yee is the Holland Bone and Joint Program Chief and Division Chief, Marvin Tile Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Dr. Yee is a Full Professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Surgery and a Full Member of the Institute of Medical Sciences with a cross-appointment in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering. He is the Vice-Chair of Research for the University Division of Orthopaedic Surgery and a Co-Director of the Department of Surgery Spine Program. Dr. Yee is a past President of the Canadian Orthopaedic Research Society (2016-17), the Canadian Spine Society (2019-21) and a Co-Chair of Bone & Joint Canada (2016-22). Dr. Yee has over 100 peer reviewed publications and has received academic honours including the Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation J. Edouard Samson Award (2011), Charles H. Tator Surgeon-Scientist Mentoring Award (2012) and the American British Canadian (ABC) International Travelling Fellowship, American Orthopaedic Association/Canadian Orthopaedic Association (2013). In 2019, he was also awarded the distinction of Fellow of International Orthopaedic Research (FIOR) by the International Combined Orthopaedic Research Society. His research focuses on translational orthopaedic and spine studies utilizing pre-clinical surgical models to evaluate minimally invasive therapeutics (e.g. photodynamic therapy, radiofrequency ablation in vertebral metastases). This work has led to first in human clinical trials and FDA approval and commercialization of new spine technology.