Brian L Hoh, MD, MBA, FACS, FAHA, FAANS : Bio and credentials

My name is Brian Hoh, MD, MBA, and I am chair of the UF Department of Neurosurgery and Chief of Medical Staff for UF Health Shands. I specialize in the treatment of brain aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, cavernous malformations, carotid stenosis, moyamoya disease, hydrocephalus, Chiari malformation, brain cysts and brain tumors, including meningiomas, glioblastoma and astrocytomas.

I joined the UF Department of Neurosurgery in 2006. Before that, I graduated with a bachelor’s degree with honors from Stanford University and a medical degree with Alpha Omega Alpha honors from Columbia University. I completed my internship in surgery, residency in neurosurgery, and fellowship in endovascular neurosurgery and interventional neuroradiology at Harvard University’s teaching hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital. I later attended UF business school and graduated with an MBA with Beta Gamma Sigma honors in 2019.

In addition to taking care of patients, I conduct NIH-funded laboratory and clinical research to improve biomedical advances in care. My laboratory investigates the biological mechanisms of brain aneurysm formation and rupture, innovative tissue engineering technology to improve the treatment of brain aneurysms, and the pathophysiology of acute neural injury and delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage.

I also lead clinical trials studying the best treatment to prevent stroke for patients with intracranial atherosclerosis. In 2021, 2023 and 2025, I was the #1 highest NIH-funded neurosurgery investigator in the U.S., according to Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.

As a national leader in neurosurgery, I have served as president of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, chair of the Joint American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurosurgical Surgeons Cerebrovascular Section, co-chair of the editorial board of the Journal of Neurosurgery and a past member of the editorial board of World Neurosurgery. I am on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Neurological Surgery (ABNS).

I have been awarded the M. Gazi Yasargil Lecturer, the Byron Cone Pevehouse Award and the Robert D. Florin Award by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. In 2024, the University of Florida College of Medicine awarded me the Outstanding Research Scientist Award in Clinical, Data, or Artificial Intelligence Science. I have been awarded a University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship and a University of Florida Term Professorship from the University of Florida College of Medicine.

I am a passionate teacher. I am the past director of the UF residency program and the UF endovascular surgical neuroradiology fellowship program, both ACGME-accredited training programs. I have received five teaching awards from the University of Florida.

In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my family, rooting for the Gators and playing golf.