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Andres Lozano, MD, PhD - Scientific Advisory Board
Professor of Neurosurgery and Head of Applied and Interventional Research
Toronto Western Hospital
Toronto , Canada

Andres Lozano is a professor and the RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery at Toronto Western Hospital and the University of Toronto. He received his MD at the University of Ottawa and his PhD degree in neurobiology and his neurosurgical training at McGill University. He received post-doctoral training in movement disorders in Great Britain at Queens Square, London, and in cell and molecular biology in Toronto.

Lozano is a Canadian Institute of Health Research clinician-scientist. His research is focused on understanding the cellular pathogenesis and developing novel treatments, particularly surgery, for movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease and dystonia. He has published more than 100 research articles in the field of neuroscience in various journals. He serves on the board of several international organizations including the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons' section on functional neurosurgery, and is secretary-elect of the Movement Disorder Society. Lozano has won numerous prestigious awards including the Gold Medal in Surgery Award from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Penfield Award, the Jasper Award, the McKenzie Award, the George Armstrong Peters Award, the Colin Woolf award and Montreal Neurological Institute Fellows Award.