User:Michel Kliot
Michel Kliot MD: Short Biography
Dr. Michel Kliot grew up in New York City where he attended the oldest school in the Country, Collegiate, from 2nd grade to high school. He then attended Harvard, receiving both a BA and MA, and Medical School at Yale. He also did graduate work in Neurobiology at Stanford. He then did a General Surgery Internship at Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons followed by a Neurosurgical Residency at the Neurological Institute of New York. He went on to do a one year traveling Peripheral Nerve Fellowship at the University of Toronto in Canada and at Louisiana State University in New Orleans. He joined the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Washington in Seattle where between 1991 and 2011 he rose through the academic ranks eventually becoming a Professor and Director of the Peripheral Nerve Center, as well as Acting Head of the Section of Neurosurgery at the Puget Sound VA Health Care System. In 2012 he moved to UCSF where he headed up their peripheral nerve effort and established their Center for Evaluation and Surgical Management of Peripheral Nerve Disorders. In the summer of 2014 he joined the Department of Neurosurgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine as Professor and Director of the Peripheral Nerve Center and also served as interim Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery. In 2016 he moved back to the West Coast where he joined the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford where he helped to establish a Peripheral Nerve Center. He has interests in the following areas: pushing the frontiers of peripheral nerve surgery by pioneering new imaging and surgical techniques; teaching residents and medical students; collaborating with clinical and research colleagues; and translational research where ideas are taken from the laboratory bench into the clinical arena. He is dedicated to finding ways to improve the care of patients as well as their overall healthcare experience. He is also interested in leveraging the internet to provide state of the art health care in an ongoing, effective, timely, and cost-effective manner. Dr. Kliot is semiretired and continues to teach, lecture, and consult.