Elected: 2021

Dr. Peter Kan is the Professor and Robert L. Moody Sr. Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Texas Medical Branch. He also holds the Jennie Sealy Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience.

Dr. Kan is a native Canadian who completed his undergraduate studies at McGill University and his undergraduate medical education at the University of Toronto. He then pursued neurosurgical training at the University of Utah where he also completed a Masters of Public Health. After residency, he returned to Canada for a skull base and cerebrovascular fellowship at the University of Toronto. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada prior to starting his endovascular fellowship at the University at Buffalo. Upon the completion of his fellowship, he joined the faculty at University of South Florida and was subsequently recruited to Baylor College of Medicine as an associate professor and the director of cerebrovascular surgery.

He subspecializes in cerebrovascular surgery, both open and endovascular, and his research interests include clinical trials for new neuroendovascular devices, intravascular imaging, neuroprotection for acute ischemic stroke, and intra-arterial cell-based therapy for malignant brain tumors.