Originally hailing from Chandigarh, India, Sagun Tuli commenced her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts and Science. She subsequently enrolled in the school’s Faculty of Medicine where she proceeded to distinguish herself as a markedly gifted and motivated student. Prior to receiving her M.D. in 1993, Dr. Tuli won a number of scholastic recognitions including a Marianno A. Elia Scholarship, a University Women’s Club Year II Book Prize in Sciences, and a Dean’s Honor Award. She opted to remain at the University of Toronto for a seven-year residency in Neurosurgery and concurrently earned a M.Sc. in Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health.
Inducted into the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in 2000, Sagun Tuli moved on to undertake a year-long fellowship in spine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In 2002, Dr. Tuli joined the hospital’s staff as an Associate Surgeon, a post she maintained until 2011. Lending her talents to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Faulkner Hospital as well, she stepped in as an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School in 2005. Although she no longer teaches at Harvard, Dr. Tuli boasts distinction as the first and only female board-certified spinal surgeon in the Harvard medical system.
Certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery, Sagun Tuli findings have been published in The Spine Journal, World Neurosurgery, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, and the Internet Journal of Neurology, among numerous other peer-reviewed texts. Dr. Tuli regularly serves as a speaker at medical conferences around the world and remains deeply involved in clinical research.