Lloyd B. Minor

Lloyd Brooks Minor (born 1957) is an American surgeon, researcher, educator, and academic administrator.

Early life and education Minor was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. His father was an accountant and his mother worked as a kindergarten teacher. He graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Science in biology in 1979 and received his M.D. from its Warren Alpert Medical School in 1982. From 1984 until 1988, he was a research fellow in vestibular neurophysiology at the University of Chicago Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences, under the supervision of Jay M. Goldberg. During his tenure, the department was ranked number one by U.S. News & World Report'''s Best Hospital rankings by specialties. He also served as University Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery from 2009 until 2012, and worked to improve recruitment and retention of faculty.

Stanford University Minor has been dean of Stanford University School of Medicine since December 1, 2012. His role as dean gives him oversight for Stanford Medicine's clinical enterprise (Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital), At Stanford University, Minor also serves by courtesy as a professor of otolaryngology (head and neck surgery), bioengineering, and neurobiology. He has written about precision health in op-eds for publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Forbes. Minor espouses it as both a form of treatment and preventive medicine that is focused on prediction by accounting for factors such as behavior and socioeconomic conditions. Working across Stanford Medicine and Stanford University, Minor also oversaw the development and implementation of a new cancer research and care model, He was re-appointed the dean in March 2017, to a second five-year term.

Concerning grants and finances, at Stanford Minor has supported competitive innovation grants that back basic science research, also increasing support for other core areas and resources. In particular, he expanded clinical and patient-centered research, helped support new educational models, and supported financial assistance covering students' first four years of Ph.D. training. and pushed for programming with diversity and "accountability". Between 2012 and 2016, Stanford credited Minor with helping raise the number underrepresented minority students from 10% of incoming graduate students to 28%.

Scientific research Minor is an expert in balance and inner ear disorders, He published four key studies between 1999 and 2001 articulating the connection between head motion and eye movements and how they are controlled by the balancing mechanisms centered in the inner ear.

In 1995 Minor discovered superior canal dehiscence syndrome, a debilitating disorder characterized by sound- or pressure-induced dizziness. Key to this discovery was Minor's finding that the eye movements evoked by sound and pressure stimuli in patients with superior canal dehiscence syndrome often align with the plane of the superior canal. He and his colleagues publicly published the findings on superior canal dehiscence syndrome for the first time in Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery'' In addition to describing the syndrome, he also later developed a surgical procedure that corrects the problem and alleviates symptoms.

Organizations

He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. In 2015 he also won the Joseph Toynbee Memorial Medal from the Royal Society of Medicine and Royal College of Surgeons.

Personal life Minor is married to Lisa Ann Keamy, a family practice physician. They have two children.