Neurosurgery Faculty
Clinical Faculty
Professor and Chairman
Director, Brain Tumor Center Executive Committee
Areas of Expertise: Surgery for primary and metastatic brain tumors, surgery for insular brain tumors, surgery for tumors in eloquent brain regions, viral therapies for brain tumors
Contact: Jennifer Everts, Ad Interim Executive Assistant, 713-563-8706
Franco DeMonte, M.D., FRCS(C), FACS
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Surgery of Benign and Malignant Skull Base tumors, Meningioma, Acoustic Neuroma, Gamma Knife radiosurgery
Contact: Jennifer Everts, Program Coordinator, 713-563-8706
Professor
Director, Spine Tumor Program
Areas of Expertise: Surgery for primary and metastatic spinal tumors, spine stereotactic radiosurgery
Contact: Cassandra Martin, Admin. Coordinator, 713-563-8710
Professor
Areas of Expertise: primary and metastatic brain tumors, nanomedicine and immunotherapy for brain tumors, Gamma Knife radiosurgery
Contact: Wendy Williams, Program Coordinator, 713-834-6218
Associate Professor | Vice Chair of Education | P8 Inpatient Medical Director
Director, Skull Base Tumor Program
Areas of Expertise: Open and endoscopic skull base surgery, surgery of benign and malignant skull base tumors, surgery of pituitary neoplasms
Contact: Stephanie Hood, Edu. Program Coord., 713-563-1908
Contact: Cathlene Bell, Sr. Admin. Assistant, 713-563-8702
Robert North, M.D.,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Brachial plexus and peripheral nerve tumors, nerve reconstruction, nerve transfers for functional restoration, nerve entrapments including carpal tunnel syndrome, cubital tunnel syndrome, and peroneal neuropathy.
Contact: Cathlene Bell, Sr. Admin. Assistant, 713-563-8702
Jeffrey S. Weinberg, M.D., FACS
Professor and Deputy Chairman
Vice Chair of Clinical Operations
Areas of Expertise: Surgery for primary and metastatic brain tumors, pediatric brain tumors, computer-assisted surgery for biopsy and tumor resection, surgery for tumors in eloquent brain regions, Gamma Knife radiosurgery
Contact: Amanda Campos, Sr. Admin. Asst., 713-563-2171
Ian E. McCutcheon, M.D., FRCS(C), FACS
Professor
Director, Neuroendocrine Program
Areas of Expertise: Surgery of pituitary neoplasms, spinal and brain tumors, neurofibromatosis, Gamma Knife radiosurgery
Contact: Jennifer Everts, Program Coordinator, 713-563-8706
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Surgery for primary and metastatic brain tumors, surgery for tumors in eloquent brain regions, brain mapping, laser interstitial thermal therapy, Gamma Knife radiosurgery
Contact: Jennifer Everts, Program Coordinator, 713-563-8706
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Surgery for spine and spine tumors, application of local delivery technologies to the treatment of brain and spinal tumors, laser interstitial thermal therapy for spine
Contact: Cassandra Martin, Admin. Coordinator, 713-563-8710
Associate Professor | Center Medical Director of MD Anderson West Houston Campus
Areas of Expertise: Primary brain tumors, eloquent cortex surgery, awake surgery, brain mapping, brain metastasis, Gamma Knife radiosurgery.
Contact: Cassandra Martin, Admin. Coordinator, 713-563-8710
Christopher A. Alvarez-Breckenridge, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Spinal tumors, metastatic disease involving the brain and spine and
immunotherapy
Contact: Stephanie Holloway Sr. Admin. Assistant, 713-794-2400
Chibawanye I. Ene, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Surgery for primary and metastatic brain tumors in eloquent brain regions, Laser interstitial thermal therapy, Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, viral and macrophage therapies for brain tumors
Contact: Stephanie Holloway, Sr. Admin. Asst., 713-794-2400
Research Faculty
Professor | Vice Chair of Research
Areas of Expertise: Mechanisms of glioma cell invasion and blood vessel co-option, roles for cell adhesion receptors and the extracellular matrix in brain development and cancer, glial regulation of the blood-brain barrier in development and disease
Contact: Wendy Williams, Program Coordinator, 713-834-6218
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Brain and Spine Tumor & Heterogeneity Computational Biology and Genomics
Professor | Director of Clinical Research Operations
Areas of Expertise: Brain and spine tumors, epidemiology and biostatistics, clinical research methodology, data management
Contact: Amanda Campos, Sr. Admin. Asst. , 713-563-2171
Assistant Professor
Areas of expertise: Mechanisms of brain tumor development, progression, and recurrence; oncolytic viral therapy for brain tumors.
Adjunct Clinical Faculty
David Sandberg, M.D.
Clinical Professor
Areas of expertise: Surgery of pediatric brain tumors, drug therapies for pediatric brain tumors
Contact: Samantha Fox Monroe
Samuel (Trey) McGlugage III, M.D.
Clinical Professor - Pediatrics
Peter Kan, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor - Endovascular Program
Areas of Expertise: Cerebrovascular and neuroendovascular surgery
Ashwin Viswanathan, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor - Pain Management
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
Contact: Wendy Williams, Program Coordinator, 713-834-6218
Brandon Miller, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Professor - Pediatrics
Manish Shah, M.D.
Clinical Professor - Pediatrics
Omar Tanweer, M.D.
Endovascular Program
Patrick Karas, M.D.
UTMB
Adjunct Research Faculty
Kasthuri Kannan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Translational Molecular Pathology
Assistant Professor, Department of Department of Palliative,
Rehabilitation, and Integrative Medicine
Advanced Practice Providers
Susan Boutte, APRN, FNP-BC
Manager, advanced practice providers
Supporting: Franco DeMonte, M.D.
Cheryl Martin, APN, FNP-C
New Patient APP Navigator &
APP for Skull Base Surveillance Clinic
Outpatient
Binu Antony, APRN, FNP-BC
Supporting: Ian McCutcheon, M.D.
Ufuoma Avbovbo, DNP, APRN, NP-C
Supporting: Sherise Ferguson, M.D. &
Chibawanye Ene, M.D.
Ameika Connor, APRN, FNP-BC
Supporting: Sujit Prabhu, M.D.
Queena Gonzalez, APRN, NP-C, CCRN
Supporting: Claudio Tatsui, M.D.
& Betty Kim, M.D., Ph.D.
Mehreen Mehmood, APRN, FNP-BC
Supporting: Robert North, M.D., Ph.D.
Tilu Ninan, APRN, ANP-C
Supporting: Christopher Alvarez-Breckenridge, M.D., Ph.D.
Justine Tran, APRN, FNP-BC
Supporting: Frederick Lang, M.D.
& Jeffrey Weinberg, M.D.
Laurel Westcarth, MBA, MS, APRN-BC
Supporting: Laurence Rhines, M.D.
& Ashwin Viswanathan, M.D.
Inpatient
Gina Bradley, APRN, CNRN, CCM
Gisela Sanchez – Williams APRN, MSN, ANP-BC
APP - Brain Mets Clinic
Omar Masihuddin, PA-C
