Clifford Lin, M.D., M.A.Sc, F.R.C.S.(C)

  • Associate Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • M.D., 2009, Queen’s University

  • Residency

    • Orthopaedics, University of Toronto, Canada, 2014

  • Fellowship

    • Spine surgery, University of Toronto (University Health Network – Toronto Western Hospital), 2015

  • Certifications

    • American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2017

Memberships and associations:

  • AO Spine North America

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Publications

  • Preoperative Emergency Department Usage is a Sentinel Marker of Worsened Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion Outcome

    World Neurosurgery
    1. Adeline L. Fecker
    2. Maryam N. Shahin
    3. Spencer Smith
    4. Jung Yoo
    5. Christina Wright
    6. Josiah Orina
    7. Won Hyung Ryu
    8. Clifford Lin
    9. Jonathan Kark
    10. Travis C. Philipp
    11. James Wright

  • Characterizing utilization patterns and reoperation risk factors of interspinous process devices

    Pain Medicine (United States)
    1. Hao Tan
    2. Erin A. Yamamoto
    3. Spencer Smith
    4. Jung Yoo
    5. Jonathan Kark
    6. Clifford Lin
    7. Josiah Orina
    8. Travis Philipp
    9. Donald A. Ross
    10. Christina Wright
    11. James Wright
    12. Won Hyung A. Ryu

  • Risk Factors for Sacroiliac Joint Fusion after Instrumented Spinal Fusion

    Global Spine Journal
    1. Peter Z. Du
    2. Gurmit Singh
    3. Spencer Smith
    4. Travis Philipp
    5. Jonathan Kark
    6. Clifford Lin
    7. Jung U. Yoo

  • Risk Factors for Radiotherapy Failure in the Treatment of Spinal Metastases

    Global Spine Journal
    1. Natasha S. McKibben
    2. Ashley E. MacConnell
    3. Yiyi Chen
    4. Lina Gao
    5. Thuy M. Nguyen
    6. Simon A. Brown
    7. Jerry J. Jaboin
    8. Clifford Lin
    9. Nikolas H. Baksh

  • Surgery on the Day of Admission Decreases Postoperative Complication Rates for Patients with Central Cord Syndrome

    Clinical Spine Surgery
    1. Spencer Smith
    2. Rita Somogyi
    3. James Wright
    4. Clifford Lin
    5. Jung Yoo

  • Utilization of Vertebroplasty/Kyphoplasty in the Management of Compression Fractures

    Neurospine
    1. Brannan E. O’Neill
    2. Jamila A. Godil
    3. Spencer Smith
    4. Ali I. Rae
    5. Christina H. Wright
    6. James M. Wright
    7. Donald A. Ross
    8. Josiah N. Orina
    9. Jesse J. Liu
    10. Clifford Lin
    11. Travis C. Philipp
    12. Jonathan Kark
    13. Jung U. Yoo
    14. A. Ryu Won Hyung

  • Surgical Management of Type II Displaced Dens Fractures Improves One-year Mortality in Elderly Patients

    Spine
    1. Spencer Smith
    2. Rita Somogyi
    3. Clifford Lin
    4. Jung U. Yoo

  • Comparing cellular bone matrices for posterolateral spinal fusion in a rat model

    JOR Spine
    1. Cliff Lin
    2. Nianli Zhang
    3. Erik I. Waldorff
    4. Paolo Punsalan
    5. David Wang
    6. Eric Semler
    7. James T. Ryaby
    8. Jung Yoo
    9. Brian Johnstone

  • Minimally invasive approaches to the surgical treatment of lumbar stenosis

    Seminars in Spine Surgery
    1. William Aaron Kunkle
    2. Bijan Ameri
    3. Clifford Lin
    4. Jayme Hiratzka

  • Proximal junctional kyphosis inter-and intraobserver reliability of radiographic measurements in adult spinal deformity

    Spine
    1. Farbod Rastegar
    2. Alec Contag
    3. Alan Daniels
    4. Jayme Hiratzka
    5. Clifford Lin
    6. Jason Chang
    7. Khoi Than
    8. Ahmed Raslan
    9. Christopher Kong
    10. Ngoc Lam Nguyen
    11. Richard Hostin
    12. Marie Kane
    13. Robert Hart

  • Differentiation of murine bone marrow-derived smooth muscle progenitor cells is regulated by PDGF-BB and collagen

    PloS one
    1. Clifford Lin
    2. Yifan Yuan
    3. David W. Courtman

  • Intrathoracic glenohumeral dislocation without fracture of the humerus

    JBJS case connector
    1. Clifford Lin
    2. Brent Mollon
    3. Caroline Scott
    4. Philip Brady
    5. Terry S. Axelrod
    6. Richard J. Jenkinson