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
	Cory Hartman, MD, MBA Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor	Neurosurgeon Clinical Interest: 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
	Virgilio Matheus, MD Assistant Professor	Neurosurgeon Clinical Interests: Spine Surgery Brain Tumors
	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
	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)
	Jerzi Rokicki MD, PhD Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor	Neurosurgeon Clinical Interests: Spinal Deformity Spinal Cord Tumors
	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
	Jay Vachhani, MD Clinical Assistant Professor	Endovascular Surgery Vestibular Schannomas Radiosurgery