Pediatric neurosurgeon provides incredible care in child’s hometown One day in early January, Nicole Whitaker noticed her daughter Sophia’s eyes were turning in. By the end of the day, Sophia, who was three days shy of turning 3 years old, was seeing double. Nicole made an appointment to see…
Maryam Rahman M.D discusses the clinical indications for treatment of brain tumors with laser interstitial thermotherapy (LITT) and she examines the expected outcomes of LITT treated brain tumors. She shares how the development of complementary technologies, such as intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and real-time MRI thermometry have enabled LITT to enter the fields of neurosurgery and neuro-oncology.
ReMission Summit is a workshop for leading brain tumor researchers and clinicians, industry innovators, and government neuro-oncology experts.
Brian Hoh, professor in the UF College of Medicine and chair of the neurosurgery department, is a surgeon-scientist specializing in the study and treatment of strokes – especially brain aneurysms, which are weak spots on blood vessels whose rupture leads to deadly bleeding in the brain.
