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

Syed S. Azeem, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise:
Primary and metastatic brain tumors
Spine and spinal cord tumors

Amy Beth Heimberger, M.D.
Associate 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)
Assistant 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.
Assistant 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

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

Research Faculty

Oliver Bogler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Basic Research
Director, Laboratory Research sub-committee, Brain Tumor Research Center

Suyun Huang, M.D., Ph.D
Associate Professor - Department of Neurosurgery
Associate Professor - Department of Cancer Biology
Associate Professor - Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Dima Suki, Ph.D.
Professor
Director, Protocol Development
Co-Director, Clinical Research