Meet Our Team

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

• Vinay Puduvalli, M.D., Department Chair
  
• Merry Chen, M.D.
  
• John F. de Groot, M.D.
• Rebecca Harrison, M.D.
• Carlos Kamiya-Matsuoka, M.D.
• Anne Kleiman, D.O.
  
• Monica Loghin, M.D.
• Barbara O'Brien, M.D.
• John M. Slopis, M.D.
  
• Sudhakar Tummala, M.D.
• Shiao-Pei Weathers, M.D.
• Karin Hoang Woodman, M.D.

Neurosurgery Faculty

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

Radiation Oncology Faculty

• Arnold de la Cruz Paulino, M.D., Director of Pediatric Radiation
  
• Jing Li, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Gamma Knife
• Amol J. Ghia, M.D., Director of Spine Radiation
• Andrew J. Bishop, M.D.
• Carolyn Chung, M.D.
• David R. Grosshans, M.D., Ph.D.
• Mary Francis McAleer, M.D., Ph.D.
• Susan L. McGovern, M.D., Ph.D.
• Debra Nana Yeboa, M.D.
• Kristina Woodhouse, M.D.
  

Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Faculty

• Soumen Khatua, M.D.
• Zsila Sadighi, M.D.
  
• Wafik Zaky, M.D.

Neurofibromatosis

• John M. Slopis, M.D.

Neuroradiology Faculty

• Salmaan Ahmed, M.D.
• Melissa Chen, M.D.
• Linda Chi, M.D.
• J. Matthew Debnam, M.D.
• Lawrence Ginsberg, M.D.
• Nandita Guha-Thakurta, M.D.
• Ashok J. Kumar, M.D.
• Vinodh Kumar, M.D.
• Michael Kwon, M.D.
• Norman E. Leeds, M.D.
• Maria Gule-Monroe, 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
• 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.
• Anh Quynh Dang, M.D.
  
• David Ferson, M.D.
• Roxana Grasu, M.D.
• Katherine Hagan, 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.