Alumni Awards

Alim Mitha attended STS from grades 4 through 12, and graduated in 1993. He then attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where he did an undergraduate honors degree in Cell and Molecular Biology. He subsequently completed a four year medical degree at the University of Alberta in Edmonton followed by seven years of neurosurgical residency training in Calgary. During that time, Alim also did a two year master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at Harvard University and a research fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

After completing his neurosurgical residency, Alim did two years of additional fellowship training in Cerebrovascular, Skull Base, and Endovascular Neurosurgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. There, he also met his wife, Billie, and they both returned to Calgary in 2011. Since then, he has been practicing as a neurosurgeon at the Foothills Medical Centre for the past 15 years. As an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, Alim runs a biomedical engineering research lab, and holds departmental faculty appointments in Clinical Neurosciences, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering.

Through his biomedical engineering lab, Alim developed a novel medical technology and is Co-Founder, President & Chief Technology Officer of Fluid Biomed Inc., a medical device start-up company of 30 employees here in Calgary. Fluid Biomed has raised over $32M USD from private and institutional investors, and is commercializing the first bioabsorbable stent to cure brain aneurysms.