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Gavin Britz, MD, MBA, MPH (he/him/his)

Department Chair
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, Texas, United States

Dr. Gavin Britz M.D., MPH, MBA, FAANS, is the Chairman of Department of Neurosurgery, the Candy and Tom Knudson Distinguished Centennial Chair in Neurosurgery, Director of the Houston Methodist Neurological Institute and Professor of Neurosurgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Britz earned his MBBCh at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Medicine, South Africa in 1987. He completed a surgical internship in general surgery and fellowship in general surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore in 1993 and in 2002 he completed his residency in neurosurgery at the University of Washington in Seattle. During his residency he attended St. George’s Medical School, The University of London, UK and served as a Neurosurgical Registrar and Senior Registrar. After residency, he took a cerebrovascular fellowship in 2002 and an Interventional Neuroradiology Fellowship in 2003 at the University of Washington Medical School, Seattle. In 2003 he earned his MPH at the University of Washington, Seattle. He also obtained an MBA from George Washington University in 2015. He held faculty appointments at the University of Washington and Duke University before becoming a member of Houston Methodist Research Institute and Houston Methodist in 2013. He is currently
Candy and Tom Knudson Distinguished Centennial Chair in Neurosurgery
Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery
Director, Neurological Institute
Co-Director, Cerebrovascular Center
Co-Director, Skull Base Program
Houston Methodist Hospital
Professor of Neurological Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, NY
Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

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