Frank W. Stahnisch is a historian of medicine and neuroscience at the University of Calgary in Canada, where he holds the endowed Alberta Medical Foundation/Hannah Professorship in the History of Medicine and Health Care. He is jointly appointed in the , Faculty of Arts, and the Department of Community Health Sciences, , and is a member of the Calgary and the . He has also received an adjunct professorship in the of the Faculty of Arts. His research interests in the history and philosophy of the biomedical sciences cover: the development of modern , the history of neuroscience and the history of psychiatry, as well as the development of modern .Since 2015, he has succeeded Professor Malcolm Macmillan (University of Melbourne, Australia) as an Editor-in-Chief of the international "Journal