Our Leadership

Dr. Jiwon Oh, Clinic Director
Together with St. Michael’s preeminent MS team, Dr. Oh is creating a global powerhouse in MS research and care.
Dr. Jiwon Oh is among the only researchers in the world using multiple advanced imaging techniques – including diffusion tensor imaging, magnetization transfer imaging and functional MRI – to explore the impact of multiple sclerosis on spinal cord tissue.
It’s all in service of helping her predict who will and won’t develop MS, even before symptoms appear. Early diagnosis means early treatment, with drugs matched to each patient’s needs.
The potential is awesome. “We’re hoping that the better insight we have into this stage, the more likely we’ll be to develop treatments that can prevent the disease before it begins,” she says.
Advanced imaging is also helping Dr. Oh develop greater insight into how the disease progresses which in turn can provide specific targets for drugs. “We really need treatments to repair what has already been damaged,” says Dr. Oh.
Dr. Oh came to St. Michael’s in 2014 after a clinical fellowship in neurology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Now she is assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Neurology at the University of Toronto, a staff neurologist at St. Michael’s Hospital, a scientist at the Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute and a part-time assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Oh is also the Executive Secretary and one of the founding steering committee members of the North American Imaging in MS Cooperative (NAIMS). It’s a multi-national collaborative MRI research program in MS. Finally, she is leading the Canadian Prospective Cohort Study to Understand Progression in MS (CanProCo), which is a national study designed to better understand progression in MS.
Read more in our one-on-one with Dr. Oh.
Barlo MS Centre Cabinet
Chair
John Barford
Members
Greg Belton
Lisa Fruitman
Pat Meneley
Dr. Jiwon Oh
Dr. Ori Rotstein
Tom Woods
Did You Know?
St. Michael’s MS clinic is the largest in North America and among the top five in the world.
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