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Two Advisory Committees: Internal and External

Internal Advisory Committee (IAC):

  • Meets twice per year 
  • Oversight of entire program
  • In place in case any issues arise such as those related to training length, trainee progress, interactions with trainee and committee 

External Advisory Committee (EAC):

  • Meets once per year
  • Oversight of entire program from director reports and evaluation data

IAC Members
 

(also view the Faculty page for more detail on IAC listed below)

 
Scott Plotkin, MD, PhD (PI and Program Director)

Executive Director, Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital Professor, Neurology, Harvard Medical School
 

 

 
L. Nicolas Gonzalez Castro, M.D., Ph.D. (Program Co-Director)

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
 



Tracy Batchelor, MD (Chair)
Neurologist-in-Chief, Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital 
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

 

 



Priscilla Brastianos, MD
Director of Brain Metastasis Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

 

 

 


Nino Chiocca, MD, PhD
Chairman, Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
 

 




Daphne Haas-Kogan, MD
Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School

 



Scott Pomeroy, MD, PhD
Neurologist-in-Chief, Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital
Professor Neurology, Harvard Medical School

 

 

EAC Members



Jaishri Blakeley, MD
Professor of Neurofibromatosis in Neurology, Oncology, and Neurosurgery
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

 

 




Milan Chheda, MD
Associate Professor and Director of Neuro-oncology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine 

 

 




Clark Chen, MD, PhD
Professor, Neurosurgery Department, University of Minnesota Medical School

 

 
 






Frank Furnari, PhD
Member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Professor of Pathology at University of California San Diego

 

 


Eva Galanis, MD (Chair)
Professor of Oncology, Mayo Clinic

 

 
 

 



Linda Liau, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair Department of Neurosurgery, UCLA

 

 




Michelle Monje, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology, and by courtesy, of Neurosurgery, of Pediatrics, of Pathology and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford School of Medicine