Roles
Professor of Clinical Neurology
Chief, Epilepsy Division
Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
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Biography
Dr. Andres M. Kanner is a Professor of Clinical Neurology and Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and Chief of the Epilepsy Division at the Department of Neurology of the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, which he joined on January 1st 2013. He is an Attending Epileptologist at the University of Miami Hospital and Clinics and at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Prior to coming to Miami, he had been 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, which he joined in 1991.
Dr. Kanner was born in Mexico City, where he grew-up and attended Medical School at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he graduated with honors. After graduating from medical school, he moved to the U.S.A. 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 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 and was the Editor-in-Chief of Epilepsy Currents, the official journal of the American Epilepsy Society.
Dr. Kanner has been the recipient of several awards including the J. Kiffin Penry Excellence in Epilepsy award by the American Epilepsy Society, the Epilepsy Ambassador award by the International League Against Epilepsy and the Epilepsy Ambassador for Latin America award by the Latin American commission of the International League Against Epilepsy. -
Education & Training
Education
Post Graduate Training
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Honors & Awards
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Teaching Interests
Dr Kanner long-standing teaching interests are ensuring the next generation learns all to know about epilepsy including pharmacology of epilepsy, psychiatric aspects of epilepsy and surgical treatments available to those with epilepsy. -
Research Interests
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 and co-authored more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, more than 100 chapters and has edited and co-edited seven textbooks on Epilepsy, Electroencephalography and Psychiatric Aspects of Epilepsy.
Dr. Kanner has been invited to give lectures in regional, national and international scientific meetings. -
Publications
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