Faculty
Mitchel S. Berger MD, Department Chairman
Adult and pediatric brain tumors; neurophysiologic brain mapping; glioma marker profiling
Manish Aghi MD, PhD
Adult brain tumors; pituitary tumors; neuro-endoscopy of the anterior skull base; glioblastoma angiogenesis; oncolytic viruses
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla PhD
Neural stem cells and regeneration; developmental neuroscience
Christopher P. Ames MD
Spinal tumors, spinal oncology, and adult spinal deformity; artificial disc replacement and failed back syndrome; revision surgery and minimally invasive surgery; spinal radiosurgery
Kurtis Auguste MD
Pediatric neurosurgery
Anuradha Banerjee MD
Pediatric neuro-oncology; pediatric brain tumor clinical trials
Krys Bankiewicz MD, PhD
Convection drug-delivery systems; gene therapy for Parkinson's disease
Scott C. Baraban PhD
Cellular mechanisms of epileptogenesis
Nicholas M. Barbaro MD
Stereotactic and functional neurosurgical techniques; epilepsy surgery; non-synaptic mechanisms of epileptogenesis and in-vitro studies of human epileptogenesis
Michael S. Beattie PhD
Animal models of brain and spinal cord injury
Gabriele Bergers PhD
Angiogenesis and tumor invasion
Lewis S. Blevins, Jr. MD
Pituitary disorders
Jacqueline C. Bresnahan PhD
Animal models of brain and spinal cord injury
Nicholas A. Butowski MD
Adult Neuro-oncology; clinical trials
Soonmee Cha MD
Perfusion magnetic resonance imaging
Susan M. Chang MD
Adult neuro-oncology; clinical trials
Dean Chou MD
Metastatic and primary spine tumors, minimally invasive and thoracoscopic spine surgery, complex spinal disorders
Jennifer Clarke MD
Adult neuro-oncology; clinical trials
Joseph F. Costello PhD
Functional genomics
John R. Fike PhD
Radiation biology; radiation injury
Grant E. Gauger MD
Surgical treatment of brain and spinal cord injury and trauma; heavy particle radiobiology
Nalin Gupta MD, PhD
Surgical management of pediatric brain tumors and neurological disorders; cell-cell interactions between brain tumor and normal cells
William F. Hoyt MD
Professor emeritus
Jeanette Hyer PhD
PNET tumors in the embryonic environment
C. David James PhD
Molecular biology of CNS cancer; analysis of mutant epidermal growth factor receptors in malignant gliomas; rodent model testing of experimental therapies
Sandeep Kunwar MD
Adult brain and spinal cord tumors; radiosurgery; treatment of pituitary adenomas; treatment with immunotoxins by convection-enhanced delivery
Kathleen R. Lamborn PhD
Biostatistics
Paul S. Larson MD
Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery; neuroimaging
Michael T. Lawton MD
Surgical treatment of cerebrovascular disease; pathophysiology of arteriovenous malformation; hemodynamics of aneurysms; radiation-induced arteriopathy
Daniel A. Lim MD, PhD
Neural stem cells, neurogenesis, and stereotactic and functional neurosurgery
Jialing Liu PhD
Neurogenesis and functional recovery after stroke
Geoffrey Manley MD, PhD
Basic, translational, and clinical traumatic brain-injury research
Michael W. McDermott MD
Adult brain tumors, meningiomas, radiosurgery, and image-directed surgery including endoscopy; biology of meningiomas
Praveen V. Mummaneni MD
Minimally invasive spine surgery; degenerative spine disease; adult spinal deformity; spinal tumors; spinal trauma
Linda J. Noble PhD
Traumatic brain and spinal cord injury - developing strategies to improve recovery
S. Scott Panter PhD
Animal models of stroke and traumatic brain injury
Andrew T. Parsa MD, PhD
Adult brain and spinal cord tumors; immunotherapy
Warwick J. Peacock MD
Professor emeritus
Claudia Petritsch PhD
Brain cancer stem cells; asymmetric stem cell division; novel tumor suppressor genes
Russell O. Pieper PhD
Signal transduction; models of human gliomagenesis; drug resistance
Mei-Yin C. Polley PhD
Biostatistics
Michael D. Prados MD, FACP
Neuro-oncology clinical trials for adults and children
Caroline Racine PhD
Neuropsychology
Harold Rosegay MD, PhD
Professor emeritus
David H. Rowitch MD, PhD
Central nervous system development and tumorigenesis
Philip A. Starr MD, PhD
Surgical treatment of movement disorders; basal ganglia physiology in movement disorders
Shirley Stiver MD, PhD
Cerebrovascular and traumatic central nervous system injury
Philip R. Weinstein MD
Focal cerebral ischemia; molecular injury mechanisms and brain protection
John K. Wiencke PhD
Epidemiological and clinical studies in neuroepidemiology
Charles B. Wilson MD, DSc, MSHA
Professor emeritus
Margaret R. Wrensch MPH, PhD
Genetic and molecular epidemiology of adult brain cancer
Shichun Zheng MD
Epidemiological and clinical studies in neuroepidemiology