Pak H. Chan, Ph.D., is a tenured Professor of Neurosurgery, Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, a faculty member of the Program in Neurosciences and the Stanford Brain Research Institute, and Vice Chairman and Director of Research of the Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine. He formerly was a Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurology and Director of the CNS Injury and Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco. He is currently President of the National Neurotrauma Society and was the Chairman of the prestigious 22nd Princeton Conference on Cerebrovascular Disease. Dr. Chan has served on United States government public advisory committees, including the NIH Neurology Study Section, NIH NINDS NSDA Study Section, and numerous review committees. He is currently a recipient of the prestigious NIH Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award. Dr. Chan's research interests are in molecular and cellular mechanisms of ischemic cell death and neuroprotection against CNS injury, including stroke and head trauma. He has nine active NIH grants that total more than $2.5 million a year. Dr. Chan has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals. He received his B.S. degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.