Our Faculty and Staff

Photo	Name & Title	Special Interests
	William A. Friedman, MD Professor & Chairman	Neurosurgeon Clinical Interests: Neuro-oncology, Brain Tumor Surgery, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Radiosurgery
	Jason E. Blatt, MD Assistant Professor	Neurosurgeon Clinical Interests: Pediatric Neurosurgery
	Marshall C. Cress, MD Assistant Professor	Neurosurgeon Clinical Interests Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM), Endovascular Surgery, Brain Tumors
	Jacques N. Farkas, MD. Associate Professor	Neurosurgeon Clinical Interests: Neurosurgery Radiosurgery
	Kelly D. Foote, MD Professor	Neurosurgeon Clinical Interests: Movement Disorders and Deep Brain Stimulation Brain Tumor Surgery, Radiosurgery
	W. Christopher Fox, MD Associate Professor	Neurosurgeon, Endovascular Fellowship Program Director, Residency Program Associate Director. Clinical Interests: Diagnostic cerebral and spinal angiography Coiling of aneurysms Embolization of arteriovenous malformations
	Ashley P. Ghiaseddin, MD Assistant Professor	Neuro-Oncologist Clinical Interests: Glioblastoma Lymphoma Quality Assurance
	Lance Governale, MD Associate Professor	Neurosurgeon Clinical Interests: Pediatric Neurosurgery
	Sridharan Gururangan, FRCP (Edin.) Director, Pediatric Neuro-oncology	Neuro-Oncologist Clinical Interests: Neuro-cutaneous syndromes including Neurofibromatosis type I and II, and Tuberous Sclerosis Other Genetic disorders leading to brain tumors
	Robert A. Hirschl, MD Associate Professor and Associate Chairman	Neurosurgeon Clinical Interests: Complex Spine Surgery Endovascular Neurological Surgery
	Brian L. Hoh, MD, FACS, FAHA, FAANS Professor and Associate Chairman	Neurosurgeon, Professor and Associate Chairman Clinical Interests: Aneurysms,AVMs, Cerebrovascular Disease, Stroke, Moyamoya Disease
	Daniel Hoh, MD Associate Professor	Neurosurgeon Clinical Intersts: Minimally Invasive and Complex Spine Surgery Spinal Cord Regeneration Neurologic Rehabilitation
	R. Patrick Jacob, MD Professor	Neurosurgeon Clinical Interests: Complex Spine Surgery – including all types of spinal instrumentation. Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
	Gregory J.A. Murad, MD Associate Professor	Neurosurgeon, Residency Program Director. Clinical Interests: General Adult Neurosurgery, Brain Tumor Surgery,Minimally Invasive and Complex Spine Surgery
	Seth F. Oliveria, MD, PhD Clinical Lecturer	Neurosurgeon Clinical Interests: neuroprosthetics, Cranial Surgery Spinal Neurosurgry
	Adam Polifka, MD Clinical Assistant Professor	Neurosurgeon Clinical Interests: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Endovascular Management AVM Stroke
	Maryam Rahman, MD, MS Assistant Professor	Neurosurgeon Clinical Interests: Gliomas Brain and Skull Base Tumors Brain Tumor Surgery
	Chandan Reddy, MD Assistant Professor	Neurosurgeon Clinical Interests: Peripheral Nerve Surgery Spinal Cord and Deep Brain Stimulation Movement Disorders Computer Assisted Stereotactic Surgery General Neurosurgery (Brain Tumors, Spine)
	We remember and honor Professor and Chairman Emeritus Deceased: Albert L Rhoton MD Obituary Neuro-Microanatomy Laboratory
	Steven N. Roper, MD Professor	Neurosurgeon Clinical Interests: Epilepsy Surgery, Surgery for Pituitary Tumors, Epilepsy Research
	David D. Tran, MD, PhD Assistant Professor	Neuro-Oncologist Clinical Interests: Neuro-Oncology Brain metastasis Cancer genomics
	Kristin J. Weaver MD, PhD Clinical Lecturer	Neurosurgeon Clinical Interests: Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery Complex Spine Surgery Brain Tumors Spinal Cord Tumors