Tom Mikkelsen

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Tommy Mikkelsen is a Canadian neuro-oncologist who is president and scientific director of the Ontario Brain Institute and co-director of the Hermelin Brain Center at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit. [1] [2]

He completed his MD at the University of Calgary in 1983. [3] He has an h-index of 72. [4]

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