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William F. Chandler, MD FACS
Ann Arbor, MI
United States
Elected:
1993
William F. Chandler was born at the University of Chicago Hospital in on July 25, 1945 at the close of World War II. Within a year his family moved to the Detroit area where he grew up with one brother and resided in the same home until going to college. He spent four years at Northwestern University in the Chicago area and graduated with a B.A. in 1967. He then entered the University of Michigan Medical School and graduated in 1971. He stayed on for one year of internship and five years of neurosurgery training at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor under the direction of Richard C. Schneider. His clinical neurosurgical training was strongly influenced by Glenn Kindt.
At the completion of his neurosurgical training he was awarded the Van Wagenen Fellowship from the AANS and spent six months working in Stockholm, Sweden, at the Karolinska Institute. He returned from Sweden to accept a job at the Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans working with David Kline and Michael Carey. He was then invited back to join the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1979 and has risen through the ranks to full Professor.
He has been heavily involved with the activities of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and remains a strong supporter of that organization. He served as President of the CNS in 1992. He also had the pleasure of serving as Acting Chairman of The Neurosurgery Section in Ann Arbor during the one year that Buz Hoff served as President of the AANS in 1993-94.
He has a strong interest in disorders of the pituitary gland and has directed clinical and research efforts in this area. He has also been involved in the early development and delineation of intraoperative ultrasound imagining. He maintains a strong interest in cerebrovascular disorders and in primary brain neoplasms. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the AANS and a member of the American Board of Neurological Surgery. He is also a member of the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons.
He and his wife Susan are the parents of two sons, Scott and Justin.
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