Brief Biosketch: Nick Kanas, M.D. (January 2, 2020)
Dr. Kanas is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He trained at Stanford University (B.A. Psychology), UCLA Medical School (M.D. 1971), University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston (Internship), and UCSF (Psychiatry Residency 1975). He joined the faculty at UCSF and the affiliated San Francisco VA Medical Center, where he conducted clinical and research work on people suffering from stressful conditions for over 35 years. For over 15 years, he was a NASA-funded principal investigator, doing psychological research with astronauts and cosmonauts. He has over 215 professional publications and is the recipient of the Dr. J. Elliott Royer Award for academic psychiatry and the International Academy of Astronautics Life Science Award.
Dr. Kanas has been an amateur astronomer since childhood. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (London). He has collected antiquarian star maps for over 37 years and has given talks on celestial cartography to amateur and professional groups, including the Adler Planetarium; the Lick Observatory; the California Academy of Sciences; and annual meetings of the International Conference on the History of Cartography, the Society for the History of Astronomy, and the Flamsteed Astronomical Society in Greenwich, U.K. He has published articles on celestial cartography in magazines and journals, such as Sky and Telescope, Imago Mundi, and the Journal of the International Map Collectors Society. He has written two celestial map-related books: Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography (3rd ed.), and Solar System Maps: From Antiquity to the Space Age. He also has published three science fiction novels.
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