Meet Our Team

Our Team of Experts

At MD Anderson Cancer Center, patients benefit from having an integrated team of the world's leading neurologic cancer specialists, focused exclusively on tumors of the brain and spine. Highly specialized experts in neuro-oncology, neurosurgery, radiation oncology, pediatric neural oncology, neuroradiology and neuropsychology provide comprehensive care to the patient.

Neuro-Oncology Faculty

• John F. de Groot, M.D., Department Chair
• Merry Chen, M.D.
• Carlos Kamiya-Matsuoka, M.D.
  
• Monica Loghin, M.D.
• Barbara O'Brien, M.D.
• Marta Penas-Prado, M.D.
• John M. Slopis, M.D.
• Sudhakar Tummala, M.D.
• Shiao-Pei Weathers, M.D.
• Karin Hoang Woodman, M.D.
• W.K. Alfred Yung, M.D.

Neurosurgery Faculty

• Raymond E. Sawaya, M.D., Department Chair
• Franco DeMonte, MD, FRCSC, FACS, Deputy Chair
• Sherise Ferguson, M.D.
• Amy Heimberger, M.D.
• Frederick F. Lang, M.D.
• Ian E. McCutcheon, M.D.
  
• Sujit Prabhu, M.D., FRCS (Ed)
• Ganesh Rao, M.D.
• Shaan Raza, M.D.
• Laurence D. Rhines, M.D.
• David Sandberg, M.D.
• Claudio Tatsui, M.D.
• Ashwin Viswanathan, M.D.
• Jeffrey S. Weinberg, M.D.

Radiation Oncology Faculty

• Paul Brown, M.D.
• Arnold dela Cruz Paulino, M.D.
• Amol J. Ghia, M.D.
• David Grosshans, M.D.
• Jing Li, M.D., Ph.D.
• Anita Mahajan, M.D.
• Mary Francis McAleer, M.D., Ph.D.
• Susan McGovern, M.D., Ph.D.
• Erik Sulman, M.D.

Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Faculty

• Joann Ater , M.D.
• Vidya Gopalakrishnan, Ph.D.
• Soumen Khatua, M.D.
• Michael E. Rytting, M.D.
• Tribhawan Vats, M.D.

Neurofibromatosis

• John M. Slopis, M.D.

Neuroradiology Faculty

• Salmaan Ahmed, M.D.
• Linda Chi, M.D.
• J. Matthew Debnam, M.D.
• Lawrence Ginsberg, M.D.
• Nandita Guha-Thakurta, M.D.
• Leena Ketonen, M.D.
• Ashok J. Kumar, M.D.
• Vinodh Kumar, M.D.
• Michael Kwon, M.D.
• Norman E. Leeds, M.D.
• Jane Onufer, M.D.
• Dawid Schellingerhout, M.D
• Komal Shah, M.D.
• Thinh Vu, M.D.

Neuropsychology Faculty

• Jeffrey Wefel, Ph.D., Section Chief
  
• Shelli Kesler, Ph.D.
• Kyle Noll, Ph.D.
• Jennie Rexer, Ph.D.
• Mariana Witgert Bradshaw, Ph.D.

Neuro-anesthesiologists
 

• Benjamin Arnold, M.D.
• Radha Arunkumar, M.D.
• Shreyas Bhavsar, D.O.
• Richard Carlson, III, M.D.
• Juan Cata, M.D.
• Charles Cowles
• Anh Quynh Dang, M.D.
• David Ferson, M.D.
• Roxana Grasu, M.D.
• Katherine Hagan, M.D.
• Ian Lipski, M.D.
• Thomas McHugh, M.D.
• Anh-Thuy Nguyen, M.D.
• Keyuri Popat, M.D.
• Yury Potylchansky, M.D.
• Thomas Rahlfs, M.D.
• Sally Raty, M.D.
• Kenneth Sapire, M.D.