Kristopher Kahle

Kristopher Kahle, M.D. ’07, Ph.D. ’07, a resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the recipient of the $100,000 Christopher C. Getch Fellowship Award for 2013–2014 from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He will conduct his fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. Named for the late Christopher C. Getch, M.D., a past president of the congress, this award is granted to a neurosurgeon committed to advancing the practice of neurosurgery worldwide through excellence in education and scientific exchange. Kahle, a native of Milwaukee, graduated from the NIH Medical Scientist Training Program at the School of Medicine. He worked under the tutelage of Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D. chair and Sterling Professor of Genetics. Kahle’s long-term goal is to become a pediatric neurosurgeon and conduct research on the ways in which alterations in chloride transport and the transporters and channels that handle this ion are involved in such neurological diseases as epilepsy and cerebral edema.