Childhood Brain Tumor Center Treatment Team

At Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Childhood Brain Tumor Center, we assemble an individualized team of pediatric brain tumor specialists who work together to develop recommendations for the most appropriate treatment for your child. A typical brain tumor patient care team will include neuro-oncologists, neurosurgeons, neurologists, radiation oncologists, and other subspecialists with deep expertise in the specific types of brain tumors they treat.

Center Leadership

Lissa Baird, MD
Co-Director, Childhood Brain Tumor Center

Mariella G. Filbin, MD, PhD
Co-Director, Childhood Brain Tumor Center

Susan N. Chi, MD
Deputy Director, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology

Nicole Ullrich, MD, PhD
Director, Pediatric Neurologic Neuro-Oncology

Sanda Alexandrescu, MD
Director, Pediatric Neuropathology Fellowship Program

Neuro-oncology

Pratiti (Mimi) Bandopadhayay, MBBS, PhD

Physician

Susan N. Chi, MD

Deputy Director of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology

Mariella G. Filbin, MD, PhD

Research Co-Director, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Program

Karen D. Wright, MD, MS

Senior Physician

Kee Kiat Yeo, MD

Physician

Pathology

Sanda Alexandrescu, MD

Pathologist

Umberto De Girolami, MD

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Hart G. Lidov, MD

Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Keith L. Ligon, MD, PhD

Chief, Division of Neuropathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Sandro Santagata, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Neurosurgery

Lissa C. Baird, MD

Director of Neurosurgical Oncology

Katie Pricola Fehnel, MD

Physician

R. Michael Scott, MD

Christopher K. Fellows Family Chair in Pediatric Neurosurgery, Boston Children's Hospital

Edward R. Smith, MD

Director, Pediatric Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery, Boston Children's Hospital

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Jessica W. Tsai, MD, PhD

Physician

Radiation Oncology

Hesham Elhalawani, MD, MSc

Instructor in Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School

Daphne Haas-Kogan, MD

Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology

Neurology

Scott L. Pomeroy, MD, PhD

Neurologist-in-Chief, Boston Children's Hospital

Nicole Ullrich, MD, PhD

Director, Neurologic Neuro-Oncology

Radiology

Tina Young Poussaint, MD, FACR

Director, Neuroimaging Center, Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium

Surgical Oncology

Reza Rahbar, DMD, MD, FACS

Associate Otolaryngologist-in-Chief, Director of Center for Airway Disorders, Co-Director, Center for Head, Neck and Skullbase Surgery Program, Boston Children's Hospital

Childhood Brain Tumor Center

Childhood Brain Tumor Center Treatment Team

Center Leadership

Neuro-oncology

Pathology

Neurosurgery

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Radiation Oncology

Neurology

Radiology

Surgical Oncology