Faculty

Clinical Faculty

Name & Title		Special Interests
	Brian L. Hoh, MD, MBA, FACS, FAHA, FAANS Neurosurgeon Professor Chair of Neurosurgery	Aneurysms AVMs Cerebrovascular Disease Stroke Moyamoya Disease
	Jason E. Blatt, MD Neurosurgeon Assistant Professor	Pediatric Neurosurgery
	Nohra Chalouhi, MD Neurosurgeon Assistant Professor	Aneurysms Strokes AVMs Carotid disease Moyamoya Endovascular surgery Cerebrovascular surgery Spine surgery
	Matthew Decker, MD, MPH Neurosurgeon Assistant Professor	Spine surgery
	Kelly D. Foote, MD Neurosurgeon Professor	Movement Disorders and Deep Brain Stimulation Brain Tumor Surgery Radiosurgery
	William A. Friedman, MD Neurosurgeon Professor	Neuro-oncology Brain Tumor Surgery Trigeminal Neuralgia Radiosurgery
	Ashley P. Ghiaseddin, MD Neuro-Oncologist Associate Professor	Glioblastoma Lymphona Quality Assurance
	Lance Governale, MD Neurosurgeon Associate Professor Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery	Pediatric Neurosurgery
	Patrick Han, MD Neurosurgeon Medical Director, UF Health Neurosurgery - Halifax Health	Cerebrovascular Surgery Endovascular Surgery Spinal Surgery Neuro-Oncology Brain Tumor Surgery
	Justin D. Hilliard, MD Assistant Professor	Movement Disorders Deep Brain Stimulation Spine Surgery Brain Tumor
	Daniel Hoh, MD Neurosurgeon Professor	Minimally Invasive and Complex Spine Surgery
	R. Patrick Jacob, MD Neurosurgeon Professor	Complex Spine Surgery - including all types of spinal instrumentation Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
	Rohit K. Khanna, MD Neurosurgeon, UF Health Neurosurgery - Halifax Health	General Adult Neurosurgery
	Paul Krafft, MD Neurosurgeon, UF Health Neurosurgery - Halifax Health	Neurotrauma Traumatic Brain Injury Spinal Cord and Column Injury Complex Spine Surgery Brain Tumor Surgery Stroke
	Matthew Koch, M.D. Neurosurgeon Assistant Professor	Cerebrovascular Surgery Endovascular Surgery Skull Base Surgery Moyamoya Stroke Brain tumors Spine Tumors
	Gregory J.A. Murad, MD, FAANS Neurosurgeon Professor Residency Program Director	General Adult Neurosurgery Brain Tumor Surgery Minimally Invasive and Complex Spine Surgery
	Adam Polifka, MD Assistant Program Director, Residency Program Director, Endovascular Fellowship Neurosurgeon Associate Professor	Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Cerbrovascular Surgery Endovascular Surgery AVM Spinal Trauma Stroke Complex Spine Surgery
	Maryam Rahman, MD, MS Neurosurgeon Associate Professor	Gliomas Brain and Skull Base Tumors Brain Tumor Surgery
	Steven N. Roper, MD Neurosurgeon Professor	Epilepsy Surgery Surgery for Pituitary Tumors Epilepsy Research
	Siva Sriharan, MBBCh(Hons), MSc, FRCS(C), FAANS Clinical Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery	Spinal Neurosurgery
	Ian Tafel, MD Neurosurgeon, UF Health Neurosurgery - Halifax Health	Complex Spine Surgery Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Spinal Cord Tumors Spinal Deformity

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Research Faculty

Photo	Name & Title	Special Interests
	Georges Abboud, Ph.D. Assistant Scientist	Cellular and molecular biology Complex flow cytometry
	Frank J. Bova, PhD Distinguished Professor	Stereotactic Radiosurgery Computer Guided Neurosurgery
	Alexandra Calinescu, MD, Ph.D. Assistant Scientist	Neural Stem Cells as therapeutic agents Biology of Glioblastoma Stem Cells Developmental factors driving malignant transformation in the brain
	Loic P. Deleyrolle, PhD Assistant Professor	Glioma Tumor initiating Cells Innovative Technologies Neural Stem Cell Functions and Dysfunctions
	Catherine T. Flores, PhD Associate Professor	Intracranial Tumors Imunotherapy
	Lan Hoang-Minh, PhD Research Assistant Professor	Neuro-oncology Immunotherapy Imaging
	Koji Hosaka, PhD Associate Scientist	Intracranial Aneurysms Aneurysm and Vascular Repair
	Jianping Huang, MD, PhD Research Associate Professor	Immunotherapy Immunology
	Dan Jin, PhD Assistant Scientist	Immune evasion mechanisms in cancer Immunotherapy
	Hector R. Mendez-Gomez PhD Research Associate Scientist	Nanotechnology Immunotherapy Brain tumors Blood-brain barrier
	Duane Mitchell, MD, PhD Professor and Program Director	Immunopathology and Immunotherapy Neuro-oncology
	Didier A. Rajon, PhD Associate Scientist	Customized Positioning Fixtures for Neurological Guided Surgery, Rapid Prototyping Technology
	Brent Reynolds, PhD Professor	Neural Stem Cells New Technologies Cancer Stem Cells Cell Replacement Strategies
	Elias Sayour, MD, PhD Associate Professor	Pediatric Brain Tumors Immunotherapeutics for Pediatric Tumors
	Eugenio Simon, Ph.D. Program Director, GMP Facility
	Haipeng Tao, MD, PhD Assistant Scientist	Brain Tumors Immunotherapy
	Mu Yang, MS  Assistant-In Computer Guided Surgery	Computer Guided Surgery
	Changlin Yang, M.D. Assistant Scientist	Immunotherapy Bioinformatics Data mining Immune Monitoring Clinical Trial Development Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Brain Tumors
	Oleg Yegorov PhD Assistant Scientist	Immunogenomics Immunotherapy

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Joint Faculty

Photo	Name & Title	Department
	Marc-Alain Babi, MD	Department of Neurology
	Katharina Busl, MD, MS	Department of Neurology
	Christopher Butson, PhD	Department of Neurology
	Coralie de Hemptinne MS, PHD	Department of Neurology
	Brian Lobo, MD	Department of Otolaryngology
	Carolina Maciel, MD	Department of Neurology
	Michael S. Okun, MD	Department of Neurology
	Steven A. Robicsek, MD, PhD	Department of Anesthesiology
	Christopher Robinson, DO, MS	Department of Neurology
	Christopher M Seubert, MD, PhD, DABMBN	Department of Anesthesiology