Keith Hoyte

Dr. Hoyte is a Clinical Associate Professor for the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary.

Dr. Hoyte obtained his MD degree from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, in 1972. Following this, he undertook specialty education at McGill University, and obtained his FRCPC in Internal Medicine and Neurology in 1976 and 1977 respectively. Dr. Hoyte then completed his basic research as an MRC Fellow in the lab of Dr. Joseph B. Martin.  In 1979 he joined the clinical neurologists at the Calgary General Hospital and moved to Foothills Medical Centre in 1995 to found the Stroke Prevention Clinic.

Dr. Hoyte has been involved in a number of clinical stroke research trials, including the NASCET study and the SPARCL study. He was also instrumental in obtaining permission from the Medical Advisory Committee for the use of intravenous TPA in acute ischemic stroke - making Calgary one of the first sites in Canada to use this treatment.  More recently, Dr. Hoyte has moved his office to the Peter Lougheed Centre, where he continues to provide consultation services in clinical neurology both in clinic and on the wards.

He continues to see patients in the Stroke Prevention Clinic and provides outreach neurology services to the Drumheller region during monthly neurology clinics at the Drumheller Associated Physicians offices

Updated: 2009-04-30