Dr. Veronica Hirsch-Reinshagen is a neuropathologist with a research focus on the histopathological changes that underlie a number of central nervous system disorders including traumatic spinal cord injury. She is particularly interested in the changes that astrocytes, an important type of supporting cell in the brain, undergo in these conditions. She attained her medical degree in Chile and her Ph.D. in neurosciences at UBC. She then refined her clinical and research training by completing specialty training in neuropathology and the two-year UBC Clinician Investigator Program. She has since become a consultant neuropathologist at Vancouver General Hospital and an assistant professor in UBC’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Her main research tools include histology and correlations between clinical presentation, imaging changes and pathological findings.