Zelma Kiss MD, PhD, FRCSC

Dr. Zelma Kiss is a Clinical Scholar of the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, now called Alberta Innovates Health Solutions (AIHS). As a functional and stereotactic neurosurgeon, she directs the program in Neuromodulation for southern Alberta. She is the Director of the Clinician Investigator Program at the University of Calgary.

Dr. Kiss completed her MD at the University of Ottawa in 1988. After a surgical internship she moved to Toronto for training in neurosurgery in 1989. During the course of her residency she completed a four-year research program defending her PhD at the University of Toronto in 1998 under the mentorship of Drs. Jonathan Dostrovsky and Ron Tasker. She won the Van Wagenen fellowship from the American Association of Neurological Surgery to pursue further post-doctoral training in France with Professor Alim-Louis Benabid, the father of deep brain stimulation for movement disorders.