Dr. Gary L. Kantor, founder of Kantor Nephrology Consultants, Ltd., was the first nephrologist to establish a nephrology practice in Las Vegas. Dr. Kantor graduated from UCLA School of Medicine. He completed his internship, residency, and chief residency at UCLA Medical Center. He completed a clinical nephrology fellowship at Wadsworth Veterans' Hospital in Los Angeles, followed by a research fellowship at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, California.

Before 1972, patients with kidney failure had to leave town for treatment. Interestingly, the first patient he dialyzed during his fellowship training at UCLA was from Las Vegas. Dr. Kantor realized that residents of southern Nevada with kidney disease had no local facility for dialysis treatment. This knowledge, coupled with his primary interest in clinical medicine and patient care, encouraged him to move to Las Vegas in 1972, where he established the first dialysis unit at Sunrise Hospital. Subsequently, he developed a home training program for dialysis, and organized the first local organ retrieval program that facilitated the commencement of kidney transplantation in Las Vegas.

Dr. Kantor established a thriving clinical practice with hemodialysis units serving patients with kidney disease, osteoporosis, and high blood pressure both in southern Nevada as well as in Bullhead City and Kingman in northern Arizona.

Though no longer actively practicing, Dr. Kantor remains involved in the practice on a consulting basis.

He and wife, Lynn, enjoy traveling, fishing and skiing.