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    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

    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

    Neuro-Oncology

    Pratiti (Mimi) Bandopadhayay, MBBS, PhD
    Physician
    Susan N. Chi, MD
    Clinical Director of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology
    Mariella G. Filbin, MD, PhD
    Research Co-Director, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Program
    Tom Rosenberg, MD
    Physician
    Karen D. Wright, MD, MS
    Senior Physician
    Kee Kiat Yeo, MD
    Physician

    Radiation Oncology

    Hesham Elhalawani, MD, MSc
    Instructor in Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School
    Daphne Haas-Kogan, MD
    Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology
    Kevin X Liu, MD, DPhil
    Instructor in Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School

    Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

    Riaz Gillani, MD
    Physician
    Joelle Straehla, MD
    Physician
    Karen Tang, MD
    Physician
    Ari J. Wassner, MD
    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

    Neurointerventional Radiology

    Darren Orbach, MD, PhD
    Chief, Neurointerventional Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital

    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