Patricia
K. (Penny) Sneed, MD, CO-director of the Radiosurgery Gamma Knife
Program at UCSF. She received her medical degree from Stanford
Medical School in 1981. Her internship at Wadsworth VAMC in Los Angeles
was followed by a residency in radiation oncology at UCSF, after which
she was appointed to the faculty. Dr. Sneed is a Professor in Residence
in Radiation Oncology at UCSF. |
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| Michael
W. McDermott, MD, CO-director of the UCSF Radiosurgery Gamma
Knife Program since 1994. Dr. McDermott has an appointment in both
Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology. One third of his practice is
Radiosurgery and his other clinical interests include adult brain
tumors with a special interest in meningiomas. Dr. McDermott is an
Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery and Radiation Oncology. |
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| Nicholas
M. Barbaro, MD,
received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh Medical
School in 1979. he completed both his internship and residency at
UCSF and has been a member of the faculty since 1985. Dr. Barbaro
is currently an Associate Professor of Surgery at UCSF. |
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| Mitchell
S. Berger, MD, received his medical degree from the University
of Miami in 1979. Following a UCSF residency and fellowship, he became
a Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellow with the Hospital for Sick Children
in Toronto. Dr. Berger served as Professor of Neurological Surgery
at the University of Washington School of Medicine prior to joining
UCSF as Professor and Chair of Neurological Surgery in 1997. |
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| Nalin
Gupta, MD, PhD, Dr. Gupta's clinical interest is in surgical
management of neurological disorders in children of all ages. He has
completed a fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery, and his particular
focus is the treatment of childhood brain tumors. His primary research
focus is the biological effect of therapeutic intervention on brain
tumor progression. |
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| Sandeep
Kunwar, MD, Dr. Kunwar has clinical interests in brain and
spinal cord tumors occurring in adults and in pituitary adenomas,
radiosurgery, intracranial endoscopic surgery, and intraoperative
mapping of the brain to identify and avoid injury to sites of motor
and sensory function during surgery. His research interests include
work on the cytogenetics of malignant brain tumors and translational
research into the development of novel targeted therapeutic molecules
and a drug delivery system for the treatment of brain tumors. |
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| David
Larson, MD, PhD, Dr. Larson holds a doctorate in high energy physics
from the University of Chicago, and a medical degree from the University
of Miami. Dr. Larson joined the UCSF faculty in Radiation Oncology
in 1985 after an internship at UCSF and radiation oncology residency
at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Larson is a Professor in Radiation
Oncology. |
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| Paula
Petti, PhD, received her doctorate in Physics from Harvard
University, where she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship, she
was involved in a charged-particle radiation therapy project at Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory. Dr. Petti has been an Professor in Radiation
Oncology at UCSF since 1993. |
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| Lawrence
H. Pitts, MD, Dr. Pitts has clinical interests in neurospinal
disorders, including cancer of the spine and spinal cord, brain and
spinal cord injury, radiosurgery and central nervous system infections
and AIDS. As a member of the UCSF acoustic neuroma team, he has operated
on more than 400 patients with acoustic neuroma. He is recognized
for his expertise in neurotrauma care and research, and has led several
clinical trials related to head and spinal cord injury. |
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| Vernon
Smith, PhD, received his doctorate in Bioengineering from
UC Berkeley/UCSF in 1990. He began his career with UCSF in 1966 when
he became a Hospital Radiation Physicist in the Radiation Therapy
Division of the Department of Radiology. A member of the faculty since
1971, Dr. Smith is currently Adjunct Professor of Physics in the Radiation
Oncology Department at UCSF. |
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| Lynn
Verhey, PhD, received his doctorate in physics from the University
of Illinois in 1968. He spent twenty years conducting research at
Harvard University and later at Massachusetts General Hospital in
Boston, where he explored the use of protons for radiation therapy.
Dr. Verhey joined UCSF in 1991 to become Chief of Physics in the Department
of Radiation Oncology where he is currently Professor. |
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William
M. Wara, MD, attended Stanford University and received his
medical degree from the UC Irvine Medical School. Following an internship
at the University of Southern California and radiation oncology residency
at UCSF, Dr. Wara was appointed to the faculty in 1973. Dr. Wara is
Professor and Chairman of the radiation oncology department |
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