Faculty & Staff
Clinical Staff
Raymond Sawaya, M.D.
Professor and Chairman
Director, Brain Tumor Center
Area of Expertise:
Primary and metastatic brain tumors
Franco DeMonte, M.D., FRCSC, FACS
Professor and Deputy Chairman
Medical Director, Brain & Spine Center
Co-Director, Skull Base Tumor Program
Areas of Expertise:
Surgery of skull base tumors, including petroclival and cavernous sinus tumors
Brain tumor surgery in eloquent brain regions
Amy Beth Heimberger, M.D.
Professor
Areas of Expertise:
Immunotherapy for brain tumors
Primary and metastatic brain tumors
Brain tumor surgery in eloquent brain regions
Frederick Lang, M.D., FACS
Professor
Director, Clinical Research
Areas of Expertise:
Surgery for deep brain tumors (third ventricle, pineal, insular and brainstem)
Gene therapy for brain tumors
Primary and metastatic brain tumors
Nicholas B. Levine, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise:
Open and endoscopic skull base surgery
Open and endoscopic management of complex pediatric and adult intracranial and spinal tumors
Ian E. McCutcheon, M.D., FRCS(C)
Professor
Areas of Expertise:
Surgery of pituitary neoplasms
Spinal and brain tumors
Sujit Prabhu, M.D., FRCS (Ed)
Professor
Areas of Expertise:
Primary and metastatic brain tumors
Primary and secondary spinal tumors and complex spinal instrumentation
Convection enhanced delivery of therapeutic agents for brain tumors
Ganesh Rao, M. D.
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise:
Primary and metastatic brain tumors
Tumors of the spine and spinal cord tumors
Laurence D. Rhines, M.D.
Professor
Director, Spine Program
Areas of Expertise:
Surgery for primary and metastatic spine tumors
Surgery for primary and metastatic brain tumors
Application of local delivery technologies to the treatment of brain and spine tumors
David Sandberg, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor
Areas of expertise:
Surgery of pediatric brain tumors
Drug therapies for pediatric brain tumors
Minimally invasive endoscopic management of brain tumors
Claudio Tatsui, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise:
Surgery for spine and spine tumors
Surgery for primary and metastatic brain tumors
Application of local delivery technologies to the treatment of brain and spine tumors
Jeffrey S. Weinberg, M.D.
Associate Professor
Director of Training
Areas of Expertise:
Surgery for primary and metastatic brain tumors
Surgery for spinal cord tumors
Pediatric brain tumors
Computer-assisted surgery for biopsy and tumor resection
Ashwin Viswanathan, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise:
Functional neurosurgery and surgical management of pain
Neuroablative techniques for cancer pain management
Neuromodulation for chronic pain
Deep brain stimulation and motor cortex stimulation
Research Faculty
Oliver Bogler, Ph.D.
Professor
Senior Vice President, Academic Affairs
Suyun Huang, M.D., Ph.D
Professor - Department of Neurosurgery
Professor - Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
Mechanisms of glioma and brain metastasis
Molecular signaling in cancer angiogenesis, invasion and metastasis
Glioma stem cell
Dima Suki, Ph.D.
Professor
Director, Protocol Development
Co-Director, Clinical Research
Areas of Expertise:
Brain and spine tumors
Epidemiology and biostatistics
Clinical research methodology
Data management
Treatment at MD Anderson
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