Andres M. Kanner, M.D., who is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on the behavioral aspects of epilepsy, has joined the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Department of Neurology as Chief of the Epilepsy Division, and Director of the International Comprehensive Epilepsy Center.

 

Kanner joins the University after 21 years at Rush University Medical Center, where he was senior attending physician in the Department of Neurological Sciences and director of the Laboratory of Electroencephalography and Video-EEG-Telemetry. A professor of neurological sciences and psychiatry at Rush Medical College, he also was Associate Director of the Division of Epilepsy and the Rush Epilepsy Center.