ABTA Scientific Advisory Council

The American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) Scientific Advisory Council makes research funding recommendations to the ABTA Board of Directors. Council members also advise ABTA as to scientific trends and new areas of research interest. All members of this prestigious council volunteer their services. 

Current as of February 2012

Kenneth D. Aldape, MD
Professor of Pathology, Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
UTMD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

Michael L. J. Apuzzo, MD
Professor, Todd-Wells Professorship in Neurosurgery
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

Mitchel S. Berger, MD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery; Kathleen M. Plant Distinguished Professor; Director, Brain Tumor Surgery Program; Director, Neurosurgical Research Centers, Brain Tumor Research Center
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Steven Brem, MD
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 
Philadelphia, Pennnsylvania

Jeffrey N. Bruce, MD
Edgar M. Housepian Professor of Neurological Surgery; Vice Chairman of Academic Affairs; Director, Bartoli Brain Tumor Research Laboratory; Co-Director, Brain Tumor Center
Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, New York

Jan C. Buckner, MD
Professor of Oncology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota

Peter C. Burger, MD
Professor of Pathology, Neurosurgery, Oncology
Johns Hopkins University Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland

Webster K. Cavenee, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Cancer Genes and Genome Program; Director, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California

E. Antonio Chiocca, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurosurgery; Chairman; Dardinger Family Endowed Chair in Oncological Neurosurgery
James Cancer Center & Solove Research Institute
Ohio State University Medical Center
Columbus, Ohio

Henry S. Friedman, MD
James B. Powell, Jr., Professor of Neuro-Oncology; Professor of Pediatrics; Associate Professor of Surgery and Medicine; Assistant Professor of Pathology; Deputy Director, The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina

G. Yancey Gillespie, PhD
Professor of Surgery, Microbiology, Cell Biology; Co-Director of the UAB Brain Tumor SPORE
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

William Hahn, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard University; Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T.; Director, Center for Cancer Genome Discovery, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Fred H. Hochberg, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Neurologist, Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston Massachusetts

Eric C. Holland, MD, PhD
Vice Chair, Translational Research, Department of Neurosurgery; Director, Brain Tumor Center; Emily Tow Jackson Chair in Oncology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

Mark A. Israel, MD
Director, Norris Cotton Cancer Center; Professor of Pediatrics & of Genetics
Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, New Hampshire

Santosh Kesari, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurosciences; Director, Neuro-oncology
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California

Lois A. Lampson, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

John Laterra, MD, PhD
Research Scientist, Kennedy Krieger Institute; Professor, Department of Neurology, Neuroscience and Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Kennedy Krieger Institute; Director, Division of Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins University
Kennedy Krieger Research Institute
Baltimore, Maryland

Edward R. Laws, Jr., MD
Director; Professor Emeritus of Neurological Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Victor A. Levin, MD
Permanente Medical Group
Redwood City, California

Minesh P. Mehta, MD
Professor of Radiation Oncology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Radiation Oncology
Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, Illinois

Tom Mikkelsen, MD
Co-Director, Hermelin Brain Center
Hermelin Brain Tumor Center
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit, Michigan

Sarah J. Nelson, PhD
Margaret Hart Surbeck Distinguished Professor, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; Co-Chair, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences; Director, Center for Non-Invasive Imaging (CNIM) and Metabolomics and the Surbeck Laboratory of Advanced Imaging
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Luis Parada, PhD
Professor and Chairman, Dept of Developmental Biology; Director, Kent Waldrep Center for Basic Research on Nerve Growth and Regeneration
University of Texas Southwestern
Dallas, Texas

Corey Raffel, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurological Surgery; Vice Chair of Neurological Surgery
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Columbus, Ohio

Jeremy Rich, MD
Chairman, Dept of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine; Professor, Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio

Martine Roussel, PhD
Professor of Molecular Sciences and Tumor Cell Biology; Professor, Dept of Molecular Sciences; Co-chair Signal Transduction Program
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee

Harald Sontheimer, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology, Cell Biology, Physiology &  Biophysics; Director, Cellular & Molecular Biology Graduate Program; Director, UAB Center for Glial Biology in Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

Michael Taylor, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Canada

Stephen J. Tapscott, MD, PhD
Full Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Professor of Neurology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington

Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD
Director, Tumor Development Program
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
La Jolla, California

W. K. Alfred Yung, MD
Professor, Neuro-Oncology; Chairman, Department of Neuro-Oncology; Margaret and Ben Love Chair in Clinical Cancer Research
UTMD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas