Dr. Peyman Pakzaban emigrated to the U.S. from Iran in 1978. He double-majored in chemical engineering and biology at MIT, received his M.D. degree from Baylor College of Medicine, and completed the neurosurgery residency program at the Massachusetts General Hospital – Harvard Medical School. He and his wife and daughters reside in Houston, where he is engaged in private practice of neurosurgery. Dr. Pakzaban has an interest in biomedical engineering and has several patents and patent applications for neurosurgical devices.