Dr. Andres M. Kanner is Professor of Clinical Neurology, Head of the Epilepsy Section and Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, which he joined on January 1st 2013. Prior to coming to Miami, he was director of the Laboratory of Electroencephalography and Video-EEG-Telemetry, Associate Director of the Section of Epilepsy and of the Rush Epilepsy Center and Professor of Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry at Rush Medical College of Rush University in Chicago, IL. Dr. Kanner was born in Mexico City, where he grew-up and attended Medical School at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. After graduating from medical school, he moved to the USA where he completed a residency in Psychiatry at the Long-Island Jewish Hillside Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, a residency in Neurology at the Department of Neurology of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and completed his training with a fellowship in Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio.  Dr. Kanner is quadruple-boarded in Neurology, Psychiatry, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy. Dr Kanner has long-standing research interests in the areas of pharmacology of epilepsy, psychiatric aspects of epilepsy and surgical treatment of treatment-resistant focal epilepsy. He has authored or coauthored over 200 research publications, over 90 invited review articles and over 100 book chapters and has edited two textbooks and co-edited four. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Epilepsy Currents, the official journal of the American Epilepsy Society and has served in editorial boards of Epilepsia, Epilepsy & Behavior, CNS Spectrums and Epileptic Disorders. Dr. Kanner was awarded the J. Kiffin Penry Award for Excellence in Clinical Care in Epilepsy by the American Epilepsy Society, the Epilepsy Ambassador Award from the International League against Epilepsy and the Award for Outstanding Medical Service from the Epilepsy Foundation of Chicago, the Award of Epilepsy Ambassador for Latin America by the Latin American Commission of the International League against Epilepsy. He was invited to be the Lennox-Lombroso Lecturer at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, the Pierre Gloor Lecturer at the annual meeting of the Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation. Dr. Kanner has served as Co-Chair of the Neuropsychobiology Commission of the International League against Epilepsy and as Past Chair of Epilepsy Section of the American Academy of Neurology. He has chaired the Practice Committee of the American Epilepsy Society. He is fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, of the American Neurological Society and of the American Epilepsy Society.
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