Dr. Andres Lozano
RR Tasker Professor and Chair in Functional Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto and the Toronto Western Hospital

Dr. Lozano received his MD degree at the University of Ottawa and his neurosurgical training and PhD degree in Neurobiology at McGill. He received post-doctoral training in movement disorders at Queens Square, London, UK and in cell and molecular biology in Toronto. He is the Professor and Chairman of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto (as of Sept 1, 2010) and holds both the RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto and the Toronto Western Hospital and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience.  He has an active laboratory dedicated to the study of neuronal degeneration and regeneration and Functional Neurosurgery..

Dr. Lozano has over 350 publications in neurosciences including publications in several prestigious journals. He serves on the executive board of several international organizations including the Michael J Fox Foundation and is on the international editorial board of 14 journals. A recognized international authority on the surgery and pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease, he has led over 400 invited lectures throughout the world. He has been elected a Fellow of  the Royal Society of Canada and has received the Order of Spain

His pioneering research activity in Deep Brain Stimulation is unraveling answers to diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, depression and epilepsy. Dr. Lozano has used microelectrode recordings of neuronal activity in the brain of patients with Parkinson's disease to pioneer operations that produce striking improvement in parkinsonian signs and symptoms. He has been involved in training over one hundred  physicians from throughout the world, with the hope that this will mean better access for patients to neurosurgical treatments to alleviate some of the debilitating side effects of Neurological and Psychiatric.

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