Dr. Carlo Ammendolia

Dr. Carlo Ammendolia is the director of the Spine Clinic and the Spinal Stenosis Program at the Rebecca MacDonald Centre for Arthritis and Autoimmune Diseases at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. He is also an assistant professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, the Department of Surgery and the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto.

In 2012, Ammendolia received the Professorship in Spine Award from the Department of Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. In 2015, he was awarded the Chiropractor of the Year Award from the Ontario Chiropractic Association, and in 2016 he received the Researcher of the Year Award from the Canadian Chiropractic Association.

Ammendolia has been in clinical practice for over 35 years and now combines clinical practice and research in the areas of workplace health non-operative treatment of mechanical, degenerative and inflammatory spinal disorders with a special interest in degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis.

Ammendolia received his MSc in clinical epidemiology and health-care research and his PhD in clinical evaluative sciences from the University of Toronto.