Advisors
Scientific Advisory Council

Kenneth D. Aldape, MD
Chief of the Laboratory of Pathology, Center for Cancer Research

Steven Brem, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Director of Neurosurgical Oncology, and Co-Director, Penn Brain Tumor Center, Department of Neurosurgery

Jeffrey N. Bruce, MD, FACS
Edgar M. Housepian Professor of Neurological Surgery; Vice Chairman of Academic Affairs; Director, Bartoli Brain Tumor Research Laboratory; Co-Director, Brain Tumor Center

E. Antonio Chiocca, MD, PhD
Harvey W. Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School; Neurosurgeon-in-Chief and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery; Co-Director, Institute for the Neurosciences at the Brigham Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospital Surgical Director, Center for Neuro-Oncology
Institution:
Brigham and Women’s and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Location:
Boston, Massachusetts

Eric C. Holland, MD, PhD
Senior Vice President and Director of the Human Biology Division; Director, Solid Tumor Translational Research; Director, Nancy and Buster Alvord Brain Tumor Center; Chap and Eve Alvord and Elias Alvord Chair in Neuro-Oncology, UW Medicine; Professor of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington

Santosh Kesari, MD, PhD
Santosh Kesari, MD, PhD
Chair and Professor of Translational Neuro-oncology and Neurotherapeutics
Institution:
Providence Saint John’s Health Center and John Wayne Cancer Institute
Location:
Santa Monica, California

John Laterra, MD, PhD
Co-Director, Brain Cancer Program, Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center; Professor, Department of Neurology, Neuroscience and Oncology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine and Kennedy Krieger Institute; Director, Division of Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins
Institution:
Johns Hopkins University and Kennedy Krieger Research Institute
Location:
Baltimore, Maryland

Minesh P. Mehta, MD
Deputy Director and Chief of Radiation Oncology
Institution:
Baptist Health South Florida and Miami Cancer Institute
Location:
Miami, Florida

Jeremy N. Rich, MD
Director of Neuro-oncology and Dirctor of the Brain Tumor Institute

Martine F. Roussel, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty, Co-Leader, Cancer Genetics, Biochemistry & Cell Biology Program; Endowed Chair in Molecular Oncogenesis; Professor, Department of Molecular Sciences, UT Memphis

Jeremy N. Rich, MD
I.D. Wilson Chair in the College of Science, Virginia Tech; Executive Director, School of Neuroscience, College of Science, Virginia Tech; Commonwealth Eminent Scholar in Cancer Research; Director, Center for Glial Biology in Health, Disease, and Cancer; Professor, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute

Harald Sontheimer, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty, Co-Leader, Cancer Genetics, Biochemistry & Cell Biology Program; Endowed Chair in Molecular Oncogenesis; Professor, Department of Molecular Sciences, UT Memphis
Clinical Advisory Committee

Jean Arzbaecher, RN, AP
Advance Practice Nurse

Jeffrey S. Wefel, PhD, ABPP
Neuropsychologist, Associate Professor, and Neuropsychology Section Chief in the Department of Neuro-Oncology

Elizabeth B. Claus, MD, PhD
Professor and Director of Medical Research, Yale University School of Public Health; Attending Neurosurgeon and Director of Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Erin Dunbar, MD
Director, Neuro-Oncology